This was the spot where I was receiving my education ; and this was the sort of education ; and I am perfectly satisfied that if I had not received such an education, or something very much like it ; that, if I had been brought up a milksop, with a nursery-maid... The Life of William Cobbett - Pagina 184door William Cobbett - 1835 - 216 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| William Cobbett - 1822 - 444 pagina’s
...this while they were very little, and I now took one of them to see the,spot. But, that was hot all. This was the spot where I was receiving my education; and this was the sort of education ; and 1 am perfectly satisfied that if I had not received such an education, or something very much like... | |
| William Cobbett - 1822 - 432 pagina’s
...this while they were very little, and I now took one of them to see the spot. But, that was not all. This was the spot where I was receiving my education; and this was the sort of education ; and 1 am perfectly satisfied that if I had not received such an education, or something very much- like... | |
| William Cobbett - 1830 - 766 pagina’s
...this while they were very little, and I now took one of them to see the spot. But, that was not all. This was the spot where I was receiving my education;...milksop, with a nursery-maid everlastingly at my heels; 1 should have been at this day as great a fool, as inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous... | |
| William Cobbett - 1835 - 524 pagina’s
...this while they were very little, and I now took one of them to see the spot. But, that was not all. This was the spot where I was receiving my education...everlastingly at my heels ; I should have been at this day as great a fool, as inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out... | |
| William Cobbett - 1835 - 230 pagina’s
...of them to see the spot. But that was not all. This was the spot where I was receiving my educations and this was the sort of education; and I am perfectly...everlastingly at my heels; I should have been at this day as great a fool, as inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out... | |
| James Thorne - 1845 - 514 pagina’s
...sand ; then the others took their turn, and at every roll there was a monstrous spell of laughter .... this was the spot where I was receiving my education;...— that if I had been brought up a milksop, with a nurserv-maid everlastingly at my heels, I should have been at this day as great a fool, as inefficient... | |
| Matthias Cathrow Turner - 1857 - 256 pagina’s
...sand ; then the others took their turn, and at every roll there was a monstrous spell of laughter .... This -was the spot where I was receiving my education, and this was the sort of education."—And then he goes on in a rhapsodical rodomontade, extolling this sort of education over... | |
| William Forsyth - 1874 - 482 pagina’s
...roll in a smock-frock when a boy, and where he received the rudiments of his education, he says, ' I am perfectly satisfied that if I had not received...a nursery-maid everlastingly at my heels, I should at this day have been as great a fool, as inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that... | |
| Edward Smith - 1878 - 378 pagina’s
...this while they were very little, and I now took one of them to see the spot . But, that was not all. This was the spot where I was receiving my education;...everlastingly at my heels, I should have been at this day as great a fool, as inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out... | |
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pagina’s
...this, while they were very little, and I now took one of them to see the spot. But that was not all. This was the spot where I was receiving my education...— that, if I had been brought up a milksop, with a nursery -maid everlastingly at my heels— I should have been at this day as great a fool, as inefficient... | |
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