 | 1882 - 844 páginas
...to smoke, so many lives spilt, for want of a little patience and endurance, for want of recognizing that it is not the greatness or littleness of 'the...distant on every side from all the conveniences of lite, shops, and even post-office. Further, we were very poor, and further and worst, being an only... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1882 - 598 páginas
...make me feel Craigonputtock a whit less of a peat bog, and a most dreary, untoward place to live at. In fact, it was sixteen miles distant on every side...useful knowledge, though a capital Latin scholar and very fair mathematician ! ! It behooved me in these astonishing circumstances to learn to sew! Husbands,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1882 - 518 páginas
...make me feel Craigenputtock a whit less of a peat bog, and a most dreary, untoward place to live at. In fact, it was sixteen miles distant on every side...from all the conveniences of life, shops, and even post office. Further, we were very poor, and further and worst, being an only child, and brought up... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1882 - 812 páginas
...make me feel Craigenputtock a whit less of a peat bog, and a most dreary, untoward place to live at. In fact, it was sixteen miles distant on every side...from all the conveniences of life, shops, and even post office. Further, we were very poor, and further and worst, being an only child, and brought up... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1882 - 590 páginas
...make me feel Craigenputtock a whit less of a peat bog, and a most dreary, untoward place to live at. In fact, it was sixteen miles distant on every side from all tho conveniences of life, shops, and even post-office. Further, wo were very poor, and, further and... | |
 | 1883 - 866 páginas
...the isolation of Craigenputtock. She tells of their poverty, and of how, " being an only child, she was sublimely ignorant of every branch of useful knowledge, though a capital Latin scholar, and very fair mathematician ! " how it behoved her to learn to sew, and to cook, no capable servant choosing... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - 402 páginas
...make me feel Craigenputtock a whit less of a peat-bog and a most dreary, untoward place to live at. In fact, it was sixteen miles distant on every side...useful knowledge, though a capital Latin scholar and very fair mathematician. It behooved me in these astonishing circumstances to learn to sew. Husbands,... | |
 | Mary Smith - 1892 - 340 páginas
...sixteen miles distant on every side from all the conveniences of life — shops and even post office ! Further, we were very poor ; and further and worst,...It behoved me in these astonishing circumstances to learnto stuil Husbands, I was shocked to find, wore their stockings into holes ! and were always losing... | |
 | Mary Smith - 1892 - 334 páginas
...make me feel Craigenputtock a whit less of a peat bog, and most dreary, untoward place to live at ! In fact, it was sixteen miles distant on every side...from all the conveniences of life — shops and even post office ! Further, we were very poor ; and further and worst, being an only child, and brought... | |
 | 1894 - 832 páginas
...make me feel Craigenputtock a whit less of a peat bog, and most dreary, untoward place to live at ! In fact, it was sixteen miles distant on every side...from all the conveniences of life — shops and even post office ! " Further, we were very poor ; and further and worst, being an only child, and brought... | |
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Further, we were very poor, and further and worst, being an only child, and brought up to ' great prospects,' I was sublimely ignorant of every branch of useful knowledge, though a capital Latin scholar, and a very fair mathematician. 
