 | Samuel Maunder - 1838 - Страниц: 862
...occupation of husbandry ; so that, in alter life. In- was enabled, with honest exultation, to declare, " I do not remember the time when I did not earn my nwn lining." In this humble and happy state he con rhiiird till 1783; but hating, during the previous... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 854
...... I do not remember the time [says William, the third (?) of these boys] when I did not earn my own living. My first occupation was driving the small...the turnip-seed, and the rooks from the pease. When 1 first trudged afield, with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - Страниц: 608
...He said in an American autobiography from which we quote, '' 1 was born on the 9th of March, 1766. I do not remember the time when I did not earn my own living, and my first occupation was driving the small birds Irom the turnip seed, and the rooks... | |
 | 1854 - Страниц: 598
...He said in an American autobiography from which we quote, '' I was born on the 9th of March, 1766. I do not remember the time when I did not earn my own living, and my first occupation was driving the small birds from the turnip seed, and the rooks... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - 1858 - Страниц: 606
...neighbors. William says that he does not remember the time when he did not earn his own living. His first occupation was driving the small birds from the turnip-seed, and the rooks from the peas. His next employment was weeding wheat, and leading a single horse at harrowing barley. Hoeing... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - Страниц: 462
...happy in a wife of his own rank, like him beloved and respected. " A father like ours," says William, "it will be readily supposed, did not suffer us to...from the turnip-seed, and the rooks from the pease ... My next employment was weeding wheat, and leadmg a single horse at harrowing barley. Hoeing pease... | |
 | John Timbs - 1863 - Страниц: 280
...Cobbett, who had great contempt for conventionalities, was an early riser from his boyhood, — when his first occupation was driving the small birds from the turnipseed and the rooks from the peas; when he trudged with his wooden bottle and his satchel, and was hardly able to climb the gates... | |
 | William Dealtry - 1869 - Страниц: 460
...begin with the primary, and go up to that which is difficult. ( Wm. Cobbett says : " I do not remember when I did not earn my living. My first occupation was driving away the birds from the turnip field. My next employment was harrowing barley with a single horse.... | |
 | Patricius Walker (pseud. [i.e. William Allingham.]), William Allingham - 1873 - Страниц: 370
...I do not remember the time [says "William, the third (?) of these boys] when I did not earn my own living. My first occupation was driving the small...and the rooks from the pease. When I first trudged afield, with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the... | |
 | William Allingham - 1873 - Страниц: 764
...Famham. I do not remember the time [says William, the third (?) of these boys] when I did not earn my own living. My first occupation was driving the small...and the rooks from the pease. When I first trudged afield, with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the... | |
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When I first trudged afield with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the gates and stiles, and at the close of the day to reach home was a task of infinite difficulty. 
