 | 702 pages
...the London Daily Journal was a baker in Elgin. Perhaps the best reporter of the Time* was a weaver in Edinburgh. The editor of the Witness was a stonemason....Glasgow. Sir James Clark, her majesty's physician, wus a druggist at Banff. The late Joseph Hume was originally a sailor, and afterwards a labourer at... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1858 - 710 pages
...the London Daily Journal was a baker in Elgin. Perhaps the best reporter of the Times was a weaver in Edinburgh. The editor of the Witness was a stonemason....machinist on the London and Birmingham railway, with ±'71)0 per annum, was a mechanic in Glasgow. Sir James Clark, her majesty's physician, was a druggist... | |
 | 458 pages
...College at Hong Kong was a saddler at Huntley ; and one of the best missionaries that ever went to India was a tailor in Keith. The leading machinist on the London and Birmingham Railway, with £700 a year, was a mechanic in Glasgow ; and perhaps the richest ironfounder in England was a workman in... | |
 | 1857 - 904 pages
...College at Hong Kong, was a saddler in Huntly ; and one of the best missionaries that ever went to India was a tailor in Keith. The leading machinist on the London and Birmingham Railway, with £700 a year, was a mechanic in Glasgow ; and perhaps the very richest iron founder in England was a workman... | |
 | 1858 - 588 pages
...College at Hong Kong was a saddler in Huntley ; and one of the best missionaries that ever went to India was a tailor in Keith. The leading machinist on the London and Birmingham Hallway, •with £700 pounds a year, was a mechanic m Glasgow ; and perhaps the very richest iron... | |
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One of the ablest ministers in London was a blacksmith in Dundee, and another was a watchmaker in Banff. The late Dr. Milne, of China, was a herd-boy in Rhyne. The principal of the London Missionary Society's College at Hong-Kong was a saddler in Huntly,... 