 Tub, which I carried about with me wherever I went ; and when I, at about twenty years old, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the Bay of Fundy, in North America, the loss gave me greater pain than I have ever felt at losing thousands of pounds.  The Life of William Cobbett - Pagina 236door William Cobbett - 1835 - 422 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1879 - 592 pagina’s
...little copy perished with a box which fell overboard in the Bay of Fundy. ' The ' loss,' he wrote, ' gave me greater pain than I have ever felt ' at losing thousands of pounds.' This was Cobbett's introduction to something beyond a village schoolboy's idea of literature. His first... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1820 - 680 pagina’s
...went, and when I, at about twenty years old, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the Bay of Fonday in North America, the loss gave me greater pain than I have ever felt at losing thousands p{ pounds'. This circumstance, trifling as it was, and childish as it may srein to relate it, has always... | |
 | 1832 - 952 pagina’s
...went, and when I, at about twenty years old, lost it in a box that fell ovcrbourd in the Bay of Fundy in North America, the loss gave me greater pain than I have ever fuit at losing thousands of pounds. " This circumstance, trifling as it was, and childish as it may... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1835 - 230 pagina’s
...went, and when I, at about twenty years old, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the bay of Fundy, in North America; the loss gave me greater pain than...But if I am ' an extraordinary man,' as I have been cailed by some persons, who ought to have found out a different epithet, I was a still more extraordinary... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1835 - 236 pagina’s
...went, and when I, at about twenty years oW, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the bay of Fundy, in North America; the loss gave me greater pain than...mind back to the alarm, the fears and anxieties of my tnost tender mother. But if I am ' an extraordinary man,' as I have been called by some persons, who... | |
 | 1870 - 846 pagina’s
...when I — at about twenty years old — lost it in a box that fell overboard in the Bay of Fundy, in North America, the loss gave me greater pain than I have since felt at losing thousands of pounds." Who can tell how much Cobbett's admirable style, so remarkable... | |
 | George W. Johnson - 1850 - 434 pagina’s
...years old, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the Bay of Fundy, in North America, the loss (rave me greater pain than I have ever felt at losing thousands of pounds." Ctato." In this he failed, as all must fail who do not consider before ml whether the climate of a... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 1482 pagina’s
...; and when I, at about twenty years old, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the Bay of Fundy, in North America, the loss gave me greater pain than I have ever felt at losing thousands of pounds. This circumstance, trifling as it was, and childish as it may seem to relate it, has always endeared... | |
 | 1850 - 216 pagina’s
...went, and when I, at about twenty yearo old, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the Bay of Fundy, in North America, the loss gave me greater pain than I have ever felt at losing thousands of pounds. This circumstance, trifling as it was, and childish as it may seem to relate it, has always endeared... | |
 | 1854 - 542 pagina’s
...; and when I, at about twenty years old, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the Bay of Fundy, in North America, the loss gave me greater pain than I have ever felt at losing thousands of pounds. This circumstance, trifling as it was, and childish as it may seem to relate it, has always endeared... | |
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