...sobriety and abstinence, if I had not, in early life, contracted the blessed habit of husbanding well my time. To this, more than to any other thing, I owed...an age under twenty years, raised from Corporal to Sergeant Major at once, over the heads of thirty sergeants, I naturally should have been an object...

...for the young man who has no friends save his own head and hands. And the example follows the rule. " I was always ready : if I had to mount guard at ten 1 ivas ready at nine : never did any man, or any thing, wait one moment for me. Being, at an age under...

...testimony of one who had made the trial. ' To the habit of early rising and husbanding my time well, more than to any other thing, I owed my very extraordinary...an age under twenty years, raised from corporal to sergeant major at once, over the heads of thirty sergeants, I should naturally have been an object...

...at market, was twopence a week for each man. I remember, and well I may! that upon one occasion_!, after all absolutely necessary expenses had, on a...an age under twenty years, raised from corporal to serjeant-major at once, over the heads of thirty Serjeants, I naturally should have been an object...

...my halfpenny ! I buried my head under the miserable sheet and rug, and cried like a child." Cobbett was rewarded, and the colonel kept his word ; but...an age under twenty years, raised from corporal to serjeant-major at once, over the heads of thirty Serjeants, I naturally should have been an object...

...husbanding time. " To this," he observes, in his Advice to Young Men, " more than to any other thing, I owed very extraordinary promotion in the army. I was always...an age under twenty years, raised from corporal to sergeant-major at once, over the heads of thirty sergeants, I naturally should have been an object...

...husbanding time. " To this," he observes, in his Advice to Young Men, " more than to any other thing, I owed very extraordinary promotion in the army. I was always...an age under twenty years, raised from corporal to sergeant-major at once, over the heads of thirty sergeants, I naturally should have been an object...

...sobriety and abstinence, if I had not, in early life, contracted the blessed habit of husbanding well my time. To this, more than to any other thing, I owed...at ten, I was ready at nine: never did any man, or anything, wait one moment for me. Being, at an age under twenty years, raised from. Corporal to Sergeant-Major...

...sobriety and abstinence, if I had not, in early life, contracted the blessed habit of husbanding well my time. To this, more than to any other thing, I owed...at ten, I was ready at nine: never did any man, or anything, wait one moment for me. Being, at an age under twenty years, raised from Corporal to Sergeant-Major...

...that to the husbanding well of his time he owed his extraordinary promotion in the array. He says : " I was always ready : if I had to mount guard at ten,...an age under twenty years, raised from Corporal to SergeantMajor at once, over the heads of thirty Sergeants, I naturally should have been an object of...