 | Goold Brown - 1848 - 324 pages
...paragraph. See also the following, and many more, in the works of the poet Burns ; who says of himself, " Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I...excellent English scholar ; and, by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles :" — " But when... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1849 - 906 pages
...ventured on a MI,, ill farm on his estate. At those years 1 was by no means a favourite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn sturdy something in my disposition, ami an enthusiastic idiot piety. 1 say iuwf piety, because I was then but a child. Though it coat the... | |
 | 1850 - 138 pages
...early portion of his history, remarks : " At those years I was by no means a favorite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn,...say idiot piety, because I was then but a child." Let us pause to remark, that predominence of the religious temperament is ever characteristic of -high... | |
 | Erastus Darrow - 1850 - 104 pages
...early portion of his. history, remarks : " At those years I was by no means a favorite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn,...say idiot piety, because I was then but a child." Let us pause to remark, that predominence of the religious temperament is ever characteristic of high... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 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...schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent F.nglish scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...ventured on a small farm on his estate. At those years, I was by no means a favorite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn, sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastie, idiot piety. I say idiot piety, because I was then but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...enthusiastic idiot1 piety. I say idiot piety, because 1 was then l Idiot for idiotic. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some...excellent English scholar ; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pages
...ventured on a small farm on his estate. At those years I was by no means a, favourite with anybody. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn sturdy sbme^ thing in my disposition, and an erithusiIastic idiotic piety. I say idiotic piety, because I... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...ventured on a small farm on his estate. At those years I was by no means a favourite with anybody. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn sturdy sometliiug in my disposition, and an enthusiastic idiot piety. I say idiot piety, because I was then... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1857 - 348 pages
...paragraph. See also the following, and many more, in the works of tho poet Burns ; who says of himself, "Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar; and, by tho time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbe, and particles:"'... | |
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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... 
