... and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them and walk into the fields, either alone with a book, or with some one companion if I could find any of the same temper. I was then too... Select Works - Seite 195von Abraham Cowley - 1772Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 298 Seiten
...fo much an enemy to all conftrainr, that my matters could never prevail an me, :by any perfuafions .or encouragements, to learn without book the common...exercife out of my own reading and obfervation. That .1 was then of the fame mind,' as I am now (which, I .confefs, I wonder at, myfelf) may appear by the... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - 300 Seiten
...fo much an enemy to all conftrainr, that my, mafters could never prevail on me, by any perfuafions or encouragements; to learn without book the common...becaufe they found I made a fhift to do the ufual exercile out of my own reading and obfervation. That I was then of the fame mind as I am now (which,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 520 Seiten
...too, fo much an enemy to all conftraint, that my mafters could never prevail on me, by any perfuafions or encouragements, to learn without book the common...which they difpenfed with me alone, becaufe they found J. made a ftvift to do i;he ufual exercife out of my own reading and o.bfervation. That I was then... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 Seiten
...enemy to all Iptnunt, that my matters could never prevail on me, by any perfuafions or encouragefci-Ui to learn without book the common rules of grammar ; in which they difpenfed jtt me alone, becaufe they found I made a fhift to do the ufual exercife out of my »• reading and... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 Seiten
...too, so much an enemy to all constraint, that my masters could never prevail on me, by any persuasions or encouragements, to learn without book the common rules of grammar; in which they dispensed with me alone, because they found I made a shift to do the usual exercise out of my own reading... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 Seiten
...too, so much an enemy to constraint, that my masters could never prevail on me, by any persuasions or encouragements, to learn, without book, the common rules of grammar, in which they dispensed with .JBie alone, because they found I made a sb4ft to do the usual exercise out of my own.... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 Seiten
...too, so much an enemy to constraint, that my masters could never prevail on me, by any persuasions or encouragements, to learn, without book, the common rules of grammar, in which they dispensed with me alone, because they found I made a shift to do the usual exercise out of my own reading... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 Seiten
...too, so much an enemy to all constraint, that my masters could never prevail on me, by any persuasions or encouragements, to learn without book the common rules of grammar ; in which they dispensed with me alone, because they found I made a shift to do the usual exercise out of my own reading... | |
| Manual - 1809 - 288 Seiten
...to all constraint, that my masters could never prevail on me, by any persuasions or encouragement, to learn without book the common rules of grammar, in which they dispensed with me alone, because they found I made a shift to do the usual exercise out of my own reading... | |
| 1821 - 424 Seiten
...too, so much an enemy to all constraint, that my masters could never prevail on me, by any persuasions or encouragements, to learn without book the common rules of grammar ; in which they dispensed with me alone, because they found I made a shift to do the usual exercise out of my own reading... | |
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