 | 1803 - 598 pagina’s
...little more than what was disseminated by itinerant ballad-singers, or rather, readers, I had acquired much curious knowledge of Catskin, and the Golden...many other histories equally instructive and amusing. My father returned from sea in 1764. He had been at the siege of the Havannah ; and though he received... | |
 | 1803 - 614 pagina’s
...little more than what was disseminated by itinerant ballad-singers, or rather, readers, I had acquired much curious knowledge of Catskin, and the Golden...many other histories equally instructive and amusing. My father returned from sea in 1764. He had been at the siege of the Havannah ; and though he received... | |
 | Juvenal - 1803 - 354 pagina’s
...little more than what was disseminated by itinerant ballad-singers, or rather, readers, I had acquired much curious knowledge of Catskin, and the Golden...many other histories equally instructive and amusing. more than a hundred pounds for prize money, and his wages were considerable ; yet, as he had not acquired... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1831 - 952 pagina’s
...little more than what was disseminated by itinerant ballad-singers, or rather readers, I had acquired much curious knowledge of Catskin, and the Golden...many other histories equally instructive and amusing. " My father returned from sea in 1764. He had been at the siege of Havannah ; and though he received... | |
 | Juvenal - 1817 - 496 pagina’s
...little more than what was disseminated by itinerant ballad-singers, or rather, readers, I had acquired much curious knowledge of Catskin, and the Golden...many other histories equally instructive and amusing. My father returned from sea in 1764. He had been at the siege of the Havannah ; and though he a 2 •«... | |
 | 1830 - 340 pagina’s
...little more than what was disseminated by itinerant ballad-singers, or rather, readers, I had acquired much curious knowledge of " Catskin," and the " Golden...many other histories equally instructive and amusing. My father returned from sea in 1764. He had been at the siege of the Havannah, and though he received... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 452 pagina’s
...little more than what was disseminated l>y itinerant ballad-singers, or rather, readers, I had acquired much curious knowledge of Cat-skin, and the Golden...many other histories equally instructive and amusing. My father returned from sea in 1764. He had been at the siege of the Havannah ; and though he received... | |
 | 1827 - 330 pagina’s
...little more than what was disseminated by itinerant ballad-singers, or rather, readers, I had acquired much curious knowledge of " Catskin," and the " Golden...many other histories equally instructive and amusing. with child of me) returned to her native place, Ashburton, where I was born, in April 1766. My father... | |
 | 1828 - 628 pagina’s
...little more than what was disseminated by itinerant ballad-singers, or rather readers, I had acquired much curious knowledge of Catskin, and the Golden...many other histories equally instructive and amusing. " My father returned from sea in 1764. He had been at the siege of the Havannah ; and though he received... | |
 | 334 pagina’s
...sent her son to a dameschool, where he learned to read ; and from his mother, he says " he acquired much curious knowledge of ' Catskin,' and the ' Golden...other histories equally instructive and amusing."* His father came home in 1764, and having disposed of the little landed property which he had remaining,... | |
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Book ;' but from my mother, who had stored up the literature of a country town, which about half a century ago amounted to little more than what was disseminated by itinerant ballad-singers, or rather readers, I had acquired much curious knowledge of... 
