Advice to young men, and, incidentally, to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of lettersGriffin, Bon & Company, 1861 - 335 Seiten |
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advice affairs affection amongst baby beauty better book-learning Botley boys called cause CHARLES MACKAY child Crown Octavo delight despise dress drink duty Edition England English eyes father feel fond former girl give grammar habit hands happiness heart HENRY MAYHEW honour Horsham husband Immortal Bard indulgences industry JOHN EADIE keep knowledge labour lazy learned live LL.D look LORD BROUGHAM lover marriage married matter means MICHAEL FARADAY MIDWIVES mind misery mother nature never Nootka Sound numerous pain parents parties person pleasure poor possess Post Octavo poverty prostitution Protestant Reformation quackery Queen's College rank regard rich ruin servants slave slavery sobriety sort suffer sure talk things thought thousands tion uncon whole wife WILLIAM COBBETT wine wives women word writing young woman youth
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Seite 271 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep.
Seite 227 - Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray : and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me : for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Seite 47 - That farthing was, alas ! a great sum to me. I was as tall as I am now ; I had great health and great exercise. The whole of the money not expended for us at market was twopence a week for each man. I remember, and well I may, that upon one occasion...
Seite 47 - I had to give, now and then, for ink, pen, or paper ! That farthing was, alas ! a great sum to me ! I was as tall as I am now ; I had great health and great exercise. The whole of the money, not expended for us at market, was twopence a week for each man. I remember, and well I may ! that upon one...
Seite 20 - And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice ; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
Seite 48 - ... on a Friday, made shift to have a half-penny 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 hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my half-penny. I buried my head under the miserable sheet and rug, and cried like a child.
Seite 105 - As the malignity of the devil would have it, we were kept abroad two years longer than our time, Mr. Pitt (England not being so tame then as she is now) having knocked up a dust with Spain about Nootka Sound. Oh, how I cursed Nootka Sound, and poor bawling Pitt too, I am afraid...
Seite 103 - That's the girl for me,' said I, when we had got out of her hearing. One of these young men came to England soon afterwards; and he, who keeps an inn in Yorkshire, came over to Preston, at the time of the election, to verify whether I were the same man.
Seite 40 - Before my promotion a clerk was wanted to make out the morning report of the regiment. I rendered the clerk unnecessary ; and, long before any other man was dressed for the parade, my work for the morning was all done, and I myself was on the parade, walking, in fine weather, for an hour, perhaps.
Seite 153 - I had a second child, no servant ever entered my house, though well able to keep one; and never, in my whole life, did I live in a house so clean, in such trim order, and never have I eaten or drunk, or slept or dressed, in a manner so perfectly to my fancy, as I did then. I had a great deal of business to attend to, that took me a great part of the day from home; but whenever I could spare a minute from business, the child was in my arms. I rendered the mother's labour as light as I could; any bit...