Risen by Perseverance: Or, Lives of Self-made MenWilliam P. Nimmo and Company, 1879 - 223 pages |
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... determine upon this profession for him was the fondness he had from his infancy shown for reading . All the money he could get hold of used to be eagerly laid out in the purchase of books . His father's small collection consisted ...
... determine upon this profession for him was the fondness he had from his infancy shown for reading . All the money he could get hold of used to be eagerly laid out in the purchase of books . His father's small collection consisted ...
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... determined to write no more ballads . He had an intimate acquaintance of the name of Collins , who was , like himself , passionately fond of books , and with whom he was in the habit of arguing upon such subjects as they met with in the ...
... determined to write no more ballads . He had an intimate acquaintance of the name of Collins , who was , like himself , passionately fond of books , and with whom he was in the habit of arguing upon such subjects as they met with in the ...
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... determined to spare no pains in en- deavouring to improve his style ; and we shall give , in his own words , the method he pursued for that end . ' About this time , ' says he , ' I met with an odd volume of the Spectator : I had never ...
... determined to spare no pains in en- deavouring to improve his style ; and we shall give , in his own words , the method he pursued for that end . ' About this time , ' says he , ' I met with an odd volume of the Spectator : I had never ...
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... determined to adopt that way of living for the future . Having taken this resolution , he proposed to his brother , if he would give him weekly only half what his board had hitherto cost , to board himself , an offer which was ...
... determined to adopt that way of living for the future . Having taken this resolution , he proposed to his brother , if he would give him weekly only half what his board had hitherto cost , to board himself , an offer which was ...
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... determined that it should appear for the future in the name of Benjamin , who had managed it during his brother's confinement ; and in order to prevent it being alleged that the former proprietor was only screening himself behind one of ...
... determined that it should appear for the future in the name of Benjamin , who had managed it during his brother's confinement ; and in order to prevent it being alleged that the former proprietor was only screening himself behind one of ...
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Page 183 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Page 16 - Then I turned and went down Chestnut Street and part of Walnut Street, eating my roll all the way, and, coming round, found myself again at Market Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water ; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Page 15 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Page 13 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character * among us for learning and ingenuity.
Page 178 - Returning home from exciting political meetings in the country to the waiting press in London, I do verily believe I have been upset in almost every description of vehicle known in this country. I have been, in my time, belated on miry by-roads, towards the small hours, forty or fifty miles from London, in a wheelless carriage, with exhausted horses and drunken post-boys, and have got back in time for publication, to be received with neverforgotten compliments by the late Mr. Black, coming in the...
Page 11 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Page 11 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me master of it.
Page 176 - The changes that were rung upon dots, which in such a position meant such a thing, and in such another position something else, entirely different; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies...
Page 17 - Thus refreshed, I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way. I joined them, and thereby was led into the great meeting-house of the Quakers near the market. I sat down among them, and after looking round...
Page 176 - I have ever known ; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb meant expectation, and that a pen-and-ink sky-rocket stood for disadvantageous. When I had fixed these wretches in my mind, I found that they had driven everything else out of it ; then, beginning again, I forgot them ; while I was picking them up, I dropped the...