 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 476 pages
...itself; and she thought that anything which might amuse and divert, without leaving a dreg and impression behind it, ought to fill up those vacant hours that were not claimed by devotion or business. When her eyes, adds the bishop, were endangered by reading too much, she found out the amusement of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 512 pages
...and she thought that any thing which might amuse and divert, without leaving a dreg and impression behind it, ought to fill up those vacant hours that were not claimed by devotion or business. When her eyes, adds the bishop, were endangered by reading too much, she found out the amusement of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 540 pages
...and she thought tha^ any thing which might amuse and divert, without leaving a dreg and impression behind it, ought to fill up those vacant hours that were not claimed by devotion or business. When her eyes, adds the hishop, were endangered by reading too much, she found out the amusement of... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 542 pages
...and she thought that any thing which might amuse and divert, without leaving a dreg and impression behind it, ought to fill up those vacant hours that were not claimed by devotion or business. When her eyes, adds the bishop, were endangered by reading too much, she found out the amusement of... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Women - 1827 - 482 pages
...and she thought that any thing that might amuse and divert, without leaving any ill effects behind, ought to fill up those vacant hours that were not claimed by devotion or business. Her example soon wrought not only on those who belonged to her, but upon the whole town, to follow... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - Great Britain - 1833 - 458 pages
...she thought, that any thing that might amuse and divert, without leaving a dreg and ill impression behind it, ought to fill up those vacant hours, that were not claimed by devotion or business. Her example soon wrought on, not only those that belonged to her, but the whole town, to follow it... | |
 | David Francis Bacon - Christian biography - 1833 - 630 pages
...and she thought that any thing that might amuse and divert, without leaving any ill effects behind, ought to fill up those vacant hours that were not claimed by devotion or business. Her example soon wrought not only on those who belonged to her, but upon the whole town, to follow... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...itself ; and she thought, that any thing which might amuse and divert without leaving an ill impression behind it, ought to fill up those vacant hours that were not claimed by devotion or business. " When her eyes," says Bishop Bumet, " were endangered by reading too much, she found out the amusement... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1842 - 196 pages
...she thought that any thing that might amuse and divert, without leaving a dreg and ill impressions behind it, ought to fill up those vacant hours, that were not claimed by devotion or business. Her example soon wrought on, not only those that belonged to her, but the whole town, to follow it... | |
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When her eyes, adds the bishop, were endangered by reading too much, she found out the amusement of work ; and in all those hours that were not given to better employments, she wrought with her own... 