 I may, that upon one occasion I, after all absolutely necessary expenses, had, on a Friday, made shift to have a halfpenny in reserve, which I had destined for the purchase of a red herring in the morning ; but when I pulled off my clothes at night, so...  Biographies of John Wilkes and William Cobbett, - Pagina 134door John Selby Watson - 1870 - 407 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Cobbett - 1829 - 404 pagina’s
...night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my kalf-pmny! 1 buried my head under the miserable sheet and rug,...child! And, again I say, if I, under circumstances like these, could encounter and overcome this task, is there, can there be, in the whole world, a youth... | |
 | 1832 - 952 pagina’s
...pulled off my clothes at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that 1 had lost my half-penny ! I buried my head under the...! And, again I say, if I, under circumstances like these, could encounter and overcome this task, is there, can there be, in the whole world, a youth... | |
 | 1833 - 336 pagina’s
...red-herring in the morning : but when I pulled off my clothes at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my halfpenny...! And, again I say, if I, under circumstances like these, could encounter and overcome this task, is there, can there be, in the whole world, a youth... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1835 - 230 pagina’s
...herring in the morning: but, when I pulled off my clothes at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my halfpenny!...miserable sheet and rug, and cried like a child." Cobbet was rewarded, and the colonel kept his word; but he ascribes the promotion that followed his... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1835 - 236 pagina’s
...herring in the morning: but, when I pulled off my clothes at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my halfpenny!...miserable sheet and rug, and cried like a child." Cobbet was rewarded, and the colonel kept his word; but he ascribes the promotion that followed his... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1835 - 524 pagina’s
...herring in the morning ; but, when I pulled off my clothes at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my halfpenny...miserable sheet and rug, and cried like a child." Cobbett was rewarded, and the colonel kept his word ; but he ascribes the promotion that followed his... | |
 | 1835 - 642 pagina’s
...herring in the morning ; but, when I pulled off my clothes at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my halfpenny...miserable sheet and rug, and cried like a child.' "—pp. 56, 57. As a reward for his industry, proficiency, and regularity, he was promoted from corporal... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pagina’s
...of a red herring in the morning; but when I pulled off my clothes at night, so hungry then as hardly able to endure life, I found ! that I had lost my halfpenny ! I buried my heati ••under the miserable sheet and rug, and cried like a child!" — The Casket. 807. Precocity.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pagina’s
...night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, 1 found that I had lost my halfpenny ! 1 buried my head under the miserable sheet and rug, and cried like a child !" His courtship and marriage he describes in the following words : " When I first saw my wife, she... | |
 | 1854 - 598 pagina’s
...redheriing in the morning; but when I pulled off my clothes at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my halfpenny ! 1 buried my head under the miserable sheet and rug, and cried like a child !" His courtship and marriage... | |
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