| Samuel Maunder - 1838 - 862 pagina’s
...occupation of husbandry ; so that, in alter life. In- was enabled, with honest exultation, to declare, " I do not remember the time when I did not earn my nwn lining." In this humble and happy state he con rhiiird till 1783; but hating, during the previous... | |
| 1867 - 854 pagina’s
...... I do not remember the time [says William, the third (?) of these boys] when I did not earn my own living. My first occupation was driving the small...the turnip-seed, and the rooks from the pease. When 1 first trudged afield, with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pagina’s
...He said in an American autobiography from which we quote, '' 1 was born on the 9th of March, 1766. I do not remember the time when I did not earn my own living, and my first occupation was driving the small birds Irom the turnip seed, and the rooks... | |
| 1854 - 598 pagina’s
...He said in an American autobiography from which we quote, '' I was born on the 9th of March, 1766. I do not remember the time when I did not earn my own living, and my first occupation was driving the small birds from the turnip seed, and the rooks... | |
| Charles C. B. Seymour - 1858 - 606 pagina’s
...neighbors. William says that he does not remember the time when he did not earn his own living. His first occupation was driving the small birds from the turnip-seed, and the rooks from the peas. His next employment was weeding wheat, and leading a single horse at harrowing barley. Hoeing... | |
| Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pagina’s
...happy in a wife of his own rank, like him beloved and respected. " A father like ours," says William, "it will be readily supposed, did not suffer us to...from the turnip-seed, and the rooks from the pease ... My next employment was weeding wheat, and leadmg a single horse at harrowing barley. Hoeing pease... | |
| John Timbs - 1863 - 280 pagina’s
...Cobbett, who had great contempt for conventionalities, was an early riser from his boyhood, — when his first occupation was driving the small birds from the turnipseed and the rooks from the peas; when he trudged with his wooden bottle and his satchel, and was hardly able to climb the gates... | |
| William Dealtry - 1869 - 460 pagina’s
...begin with the primary, and go up to that which is difficult. ( Wm. Cobbett says : " I do not remember when I did not earn my living. My first occupation was driving away the birds from the turnip field. My next employment was harrowing barley with a single horse.... | |
| Patricius Walker (pseud. [i.e. William Allingham.]), William Allingham - 1873 - 370 pagina’s
...I do not remember the time [says "William, the third (?) of these boys] when I did not earn my own living. My first occupation was driving the small...and the rooks from the pease. When I first trudged afield, with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the... | |
| William Allingham - 1873 - 764 pagina’s
...Famham. I do not remember the time [says William, the third (?) of these boys] when I did not earn my own living. My first occupation was driving the small...and the rooks from the pease. When I first trudged afield, with my wooden bottle and my satchel swung over my shoulders, I was hardly able to climb the... | |
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