I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic idiot piety. I say idiot piety, because I was then but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English... The British Prose Writers... - Page 571819Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - 1801 - 762 pages
...but a child. Though it cod the Ichool-mafter fbme thrafhings, I made an excellent Englilh fcholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in fubflantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyilh days too I owed much to an old woman who... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 612 pages
...but a child. Though it coft the fchoolmafter feme thralliings, I made an excellent Englifh fcholar j and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in fubftantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyiffy days too, I owed much to an old woman... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1801 - 818 pages
...but a child. Though it cod the fchool-mafter Tome thrafhings, I made an excellent Englifh fcholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in fubftantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyifli days too I owed much to an old woman who... | |
| 1801 - 762 pages
...a child. Though it coil the íchool-maííer (orne thramings, I made an excellent Englifli fcholar; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in fubfiantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyifli days too I owed much to an old woman who... | |
| 1801 - 860 pages
...but a chil'l. Though it coil the fchoolrnailer fome thrafhings, I made an excellent Englifh fcholar; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was_a critic in fubftantives, veibs, and particles. In my infant and boyiih days too, I owed much to... | |
| Robert Burns - 1813 - 422 pages
...favourite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic idiot* piety. I say...some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar; _ and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles.... | |
| Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...memory, a stubborn sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic idiot piety ; I say, ideot piety, because I was then but a child. Though it cost the school master some thrashings, 1 made an excellent English Scholar. In my boyish days, too, I owed... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1814 - 502 pages
...ehild. Though it eost the sehoolmaster some thrashings, I made an exeellent English seholar; and hy the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a eritie in suhstantives, verhs, and partieles. In my in)' ; ni and hoyish days too, I owed mueh to an... | |
| Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic ideot piety. — I say idcot piety, because 1 was then but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster...made an excellent English scholar ; and by the time 1 M 2 was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic iu substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1820 - 484 pages
...memory, a stubborn sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic ideot* piety. — I say ideot piety, because I was then but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, 1 made an excellent 'English scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic... | |
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