An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 537 páginas |
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... learned on the sea - shore . - The blank mica and garnet crystals of Cromarty . - Exploration of Cromarty Hill . - A wild paradise of rocks .- " Getting siller in the stanes " . 38 CHAPTER IV . PAGE Quiet hours in the Ebb with.
... learned on the sea - shore . - The blank mica and garnet crystals of Cromarty . - Exploration of Cromarty Hill . - A wild paradise of rocks .- " Getting siller in the stanes " . 38 CHAPTER IV . PAGE Quiet hours in the Ebb with.
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... shore become a miniature muster - ground . - Essays in bark - building and navigation unsuccessful . - Unlucky accident , and " break " with a friend . - A visit to the Highlands . Family worship . - Honesty a better security than locks ...
... shore become a miniature muster - ground . - Essays in bark - building and navigation unsuccessful . - Unlucky accident , and " break " with a friend . - A visit to the Highlands . Family worship . - Honesty a better security than locks ...
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... shore of Loch Maree . - Music on the waters.- Island Marce . - Comforts of a barrack . - Home of a Highlander .- " Without Gaelic in Gairloch . " - Effect of a potato famine . - Disparity among people of contiguous districts due to a ...
... shore of Loch Maree . - Music on the waters.- Island Marce . - Comforts of a barrack . - Home of a Highlander .- " Without Gaelic in Gairloch . " - Effect of a potato famine . - Disparity among people of contiguous districts due to a ...
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... shores as early as the times of Sir Andrew Wood and the " bold Bartons , " and mayhap helped to man that " verrie monstrous schippe the Great Michael , " that " cumbered all Scotland to get her to sea . " They had taken as naturally to ...
... shores as early as the times of Sir Andrew Wood and the " bold Bartons , " and mayhap helped to man that " verrie monstrous schippe the Great Michael , " that " cumbered all Scotland to get her to sea . " They had taken as naturally to ...
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... shore . Many of my other recollections of this manly sailor are equally fragmentary in their character ; but there is a distinct bit of picture in them all , that strongly impressed the boyish fancy . When not much turned of thirty ...
... shore . Many of my other recollections of this manly sailor are equally fragmentary in their character ; but there is a distinct bit of picture in them all , that strongly impressed the boyish fancy . When not much turned of thirty ...
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acquaintance amid ancient Auchterarder barrack belemnites beside bothy boulder clay branch bank cave character Church circumstances comrade cottage course cousin Cromarty curious dark deemed delight district Doocot early Edinburgh engaged English failed feet fish Frith Gaelic Gairloch gneiss greatly hand heard Henry Kirke White Highland hills hour Inverness Inverness Courier Jock kind labor lady learned least length light live Loch Loch Maree Loch Shin looked mason master ment mind minister morning nature neighborhood neighboring never Niddry Nigg night occasion Old Red Old Red Sandstone once ordinary parish passed peculiar poet poor porridge precipice regarded remark rocks rose round Sandstone scarce scene Scotland Scottish season seemed seen shore side sloop sort stone story succeeded thought tion town Uncle James verse walks Whigs wild woods workmen young
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Página 344 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 210 - Alternate triumphed in his breast; His bliss and woe — a smile, a tear; Oblivion hides the rest. The bounding pulse, the languid limb, The changing spirit's rise and fall; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all.
Página i - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 395 - We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and ra'gs and paltry blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man.
Página 165 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Página 327 - I were ever so little out of the room, and all ascribed to the chapel ghost, which they said ever haunted those not regularly admitted, that, notwithstanding the master's protection, I found myself obliged to comply and pay the money, convinced of the folly of being on ill terms with those one is to live with continually.
Página 398 - See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.
Página 220 - I replied ; ;' I don't think we'll need the other one before Saturday night." A roar of laughter from every corner of the barrack precluded reply ; and in the laughter, after an embarrassed pause, the poor man had the good sense to join. And during the rest of the season I baked as often and as much as I pleased. It is, I believe, Goldsmith who remarks, that " wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed, than from its native poignancy...
Página 24 - ... mother, telling what I ha'd seen ; and the house-girl whom she next sent to shut the door, apparently affected by my terror, also returned frightened, and said that she too had seen the woman's hand ; which, however, did not seem to be the case. And finally, my mother going to the door, saw nothing, though she appeared much impressed by the extremeness of my terror and the minuteness of my description. I communicate the story, as it lies fixed in my memory, without attempting to explain it. The...
Página 37 - At Wallace' name, what Scottish blood But boils up in a spring-tide flood ! Oft have our fearless fathers strode By Wallace' side, Still pressing onward, red-wat shod, Or glorious died.