 I learned grammar when I was a private soldier on the pay of sixpence a day. The edge of my berth, or that of the guard-bed, was my seat to study in ; my knapsack was my bookcase ; a bit of board, lying on my lap, was my writing-table ; and the task did...  The Monthly Review - Página 2221835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 344 páginas
...seat to study in; my knapsack was my bookcase; a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing table, and the task did not demand any thing like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candles or oil; in winter it was rarely that I could get any evening light but that of the fire, and... | |
 | H. G. Somerville - 1896 - 240 páginas
...book-case ; a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing-table, and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter time I could rarely get any evening light but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. And if I,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 488 páginas
...edge of my berth, or that of the guard-bed, was my seat to study in ; my knapsack was my bookcase ; a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing-table, and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candles or oil ; in winter it was rarely... | |
 | H. G. Somerville - 1896 - 244 páginas
...pay of sixpence a day. The edge of my berth was my seat to study in; my knapsack was my book-case ; a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing-table, and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil; in winter time I could rarely... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 páginas
...edge of my berth, or that of the guard-bed, was my seat to study in ; my knapsack was my bookcase ; a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing-table, and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candles or oil ; in winter it was rarely... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 392 páginas
...edge of my berth, or that of the guard-bed, was my seat to study in ; my knapsack was my book-case ; a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing-table, and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter, it was rarely... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1899 - 444 páginas
...The edge of my berth or that of the guard-bed was my seat to study on, my knapsack was my bookcase, a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing-table, and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life." We are not here concerned with following the varied career of iv... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1900 - 282 páginas
...edge of my berth, or that of the guard-bed, was my seat to study in ; my knapsack was my bookcase ; a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing-table ; and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candles or oil ; in winter it was rarely... | |
 | Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - 1904 - 364 páginas
...edge of my berth, or that of the guardbed, was my seat to study in ; my knapsack was my bookcase ; a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing-table...in winter time it was rarely that I could get any evening-light but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. And if I, under such circumstances,... | |
 | Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - 1904 - 364 páginas
...edge of my berth, or that of the guardbed, was my seat to study in ; my knapsack was my bookcase ; a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing-table...in winter time it was rarely that I could get any evening-light but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. And if I, under such circumstances,... | |
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