 | William Cobbett - 1835 - 236 Seiten
...at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my halfpenny! I buried my head under the 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... | |
 | 1835 - 642 Seiten
...at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my halfpenny ! I buried my head under the 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... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1835 - 524 Seiten
...at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my halfpenny ! I buried my head under the 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... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1835 - 230 Seiten
...at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my halfpenny! I buried my head under the 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... | |
 | Henry Dunn - 1839 - 238 Seiten
...score of the most thoughtless of Men, and that too in the hours of their freedom from ah1 control. And, I say, if I, under circumstances like these, could encounter and overcome the task, is there, can there be, in the whole world, a youth to find an excuse for the non-performance... | |
 | Samuel Jackson - 1851 - 1172 Seiten
...from ull control. And I say, if I, under stances like these, could encounter and overcome tb» •< can there be, in the whole world, a youth to find an 55 for the non-performance." AN EXAMPLE TO MINISTERS. w ministers were ever more attentive than he... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 Seiten
...score of the most thoughtless of men, and that too in the hours of their freedom from all control. And, I say, if I, under circumstances like these, could encounter and overcome the task, is there, can there be, in the whole world a youth to find an excuse for the non-performance... | |
 | 1849 - 318 Seiten
...of the most thonghtless of men, and that, too, in the hours of their freedom from all control. And, I say, if I, under circumstances like these, could encounter and overcome the task, is there, can there be in the whole world, a youth to flnd an excuse for its non-performance... | |
 | Uriah Parke - 1849 - 414 Seiten
...score of the most thoughtless of men ; and that too, in the hours of freedom from all control. And I say, if I, under circumstances like these, could encounter and overcome the task, is there, can there be, in the whole world, a youth that can find an excuse for the non-performance?"... | |
 | 1850 - 398 Seiten
...half a score of the most thoughtless of men, and that, too, in hours of freedom from, control. " And I say, if I, under circumstances like these, could encounter and overcome the task, can there be in the whole world a youth who can find excuse for non-performance ?'' THE WIDOW... | |
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... 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... 
