The Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine: With a Full and Fair Account of All His Authoring Transactions; Being a Sure and Infallible Guide for All Enterprising Young Men who Wish to Make a Fortune by Writing Pamphlets, Выпуск 1W. Cobbett, 1796 - Всего страниц: 58 |
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Стр. 26 - I had never thought of approaching a squire without a most respectful bow; but in this new world, though I was but a corporal, I often ordered a squire to bring me a. glass of grog, and even to take care of my knapsack.
Стр. 18 - The stage-coach had just turned the summit of a hill, and was rattling down towards me at a merry rate. The notion of going to London never entered my mind till this very moment, yet the step was completely determined on before the coach came to the spot where I stood. Up I got, and was in London about nine o'clock in the evening.
Стр. 17 - I remember he concluded his advice with telling me, that it was better to be led to church in a halter, to be tied to a girl that I did not like, than to be tied to the gangway, or, as the sailors call it, married to Miss Roper.
Стр. 9 - The reader will easily believe, from the poverty of his parents, that he had received no very brilliant education ; he was, however, learned for a man in his rank of life. When a little boy, he drove the plough for twopence a day; and these, his earnings, were appropriated to the expenses of an evening-school.
Стр. 31 - till the spring' of 1793, as well to perfect myself in the language as to pass the winter at Paris. But I perceived the storm gathering ; I saw that a war with Eng-land was inevitable, and it was not difficult to see what would be the fate of Englishmen in that country, where the rulers had laid aside even the appearance of justice and mercy.
Стр. 11 - I have some faint recollection of going to school to an old woman, who, I believe, did not succeed in learning me my letters. In the winter evenings, my father learnt us all to read and write, and gave us a pretty tolerable knowledge of arithmetic.
Стр. 25 - The pains I took cannot be described; I wrote the whole grammar out two or three times; I got it by heart; I repeated it every morning and every evening; and when on guard, I imposed on myself the task of saying it all over once, every time I was posted sentinel.
Стр. 11 - I arrived at the honour of joining the reapers in harvest, driving the team, and holding plough. We were all of us strong and laborious, and my father used to boast that he had four boys, the eldest of whom was but fifteen years old, who did as much work as any three men in the parish of Farnham. Honest pride, and happy days!
Стр. 49 - ... government towards the United States. But, have I ever teazed my readers with this, except when the subject necessarily demanded it? And if I have given way to my indignation, when a hypocritical political divine attempted to degrade my country, or when its vile calumniators called it " an insular Bastile," what have I done more than every good man in my place would have done? What have I done more than my duty ; than obeyed the feelings of my heart? When a man hears his country reviled, does...
Стр. viii - It had but two windows ; a damson tree shaded one, and a clump of filberts the other. Here I and my brothers went every Christmas and Whitsuntide to spend a week or two, and torment the poor old woman with our noise and dilapidations. She used to give us milk and bread for breakfast...