 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...Put the whole into a bottle, and shake it well together. It should be taken in four equal quantities, the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night, when the fit is quite over. The quantity should be made into eight parts for a child, and the bottle... | |
 | 1838 - 504 pages
...reading, and continued the exercise as long as she was able. It was her constant habit to read her Bible the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. When about ten years old, she received great spiritual benefit ; but subsequently being sent to a boarding-school,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1838 - 742 pages
...and harmonize this picture with a surprising force and felicity. My friend, its owner, gazes upon it, the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night, with a fondness of emotion which is inconceivable to those who have not witnessed him. Not a MS., however... | |
 | Great Britain. Bail Court, Alfred Septimus Dowling - 1842 - 1144 pages
...Efforts were made for this purpose down to the 16th of November. On that day, similar efforts were made, the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. [ Williams, J. — The sheriff docs not say positively, that there are bona or nulla 1841. bona.] The... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...good stomach and a bad heart." The Romans, it may be remarked, had another form of salutation, used the first thing in the morning and the last, thing at night — the last, too, at a funeral, as in those lovely lines of Catullus to his brother's memory — Nunc... | |
 | 1864 - 726 pages
...held that bird, even more constantly and more lovingly. He wants you to think about Him, and love Him, the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night. It is His desire that as you walk about you should lift up your heart, and speak to Him; that you should... | |
 | 1847 - 1178 pages
...advantage of a large garden wherein were several plots of potatoes, which he was in the nabit of observing the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night. In the neighbourhood, moreover, were larger potato grounds, where he used to enjoy the air, and study... | |
 | John S. Maxwell - 1848 - 380 pages
...but pure spirit, is called Finkel. It is distilled in every farm-house, from potatoes, and is used the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. It is taken in sickness and in health, and is the Norwegian panacea for all the ills of life. The young... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1848 - 788 pages
...composition or reading, scarcely allowing himself time for exercise or air ; a book was his companion the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. He told me he always read himself to sleep. Even when he walked on the Argine, — his favourite winter... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 pages
...would, or might have the bad taste to want me always at his fireside, and to see my unlovely physiognomy the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night for the whole term of his or my natural life. Ah, well, if a barn-door chicken, of the good old race... | |
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It was the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, till I confess it began to be something of a bore to me. 
