 | Sir William Forbes - Medicine - 1806 - 578 pages
...were any errors in the print, and was obliged to get a friend to do that office for me. Not that I am in the least dissatisfied with the sentiments : every...in that expedition, purchased a small estate, about three miles from this town. I have had several conversations with him, on the subject of the voyage,... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 410 pages
...were any errors in the print, and was obliged to get a friend to do that office for me. Not that I am in the least dissatisfied with the sentiments : Every...in that expedition, purchased a small estate, about three miles from this town. I have had several conversations with him on the subject of the voyage,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 406 pages
...were any errors in the print, and was obliged to get a friend to do that office for me. Not that I am in the least dissatisfied with the sentiments : every...story. One who was on board the Centurion, in lord Ansou's voyage, having got some money in that expedition, purchased a small estate, about three miles... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 344 pages
...nervous system; and I cannot read what I then wrote without some degree of horror, because it recalls to my mind the horrors that I have sometimes felt...after passing a long evening in those severe studies." GOLDONI, after a rash exertion of writing sixteen plays in a year, confesses he paid the penalty of... | |
 | Historical account - Discoveries in geography - 1836 - 510 pages
...Beattie may perhaps present a livelier idea of the distress endured than a lengthened description : " One who was on board the Centurion in Lord Anson's...in that expedition, purchased a small estate about three miles from this town (Aberdeen). I have had several conversations with him on the subject of... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1839 - 418 pages
...nervous system ; and I cannot read what I then wrote without some degree of horror, because it recalls to my mind the horrors that I have sometimes felt...after passing a long evening in those severe studies." GOLDONI, after a rash exertion of writing sixteen plays in a year, confesses he paid the penalty of... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 pages
...nervous system ; and I cannot read what I then wrote without some degree of horror, because it recalls to my mind the horrors that I have sometimes felt...after passing a long evening in those severe studies." GOLDONI, after a rash exertion of writing sixteen plays in a year, confesses he paid the penalty of... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1840 - 516 pages
...read what I then wrote without some degree of horror, because it recalls to my mind the horrors that 1 have sometimes felt after passing a long evening in those severe studies." GOLDONI, after a rash exertion of writing sixteen plays in a year, confesses he paid the penalty of... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1849 - 656 pages
...concemnant Г Histoire, $-c. des Chinese. — Monthly Review, vol. 60, p. 549. [Anton* t Voyage."] " ONE who was on board the Centurion, in Lord Anson's...in that expedition, purchased a small estate, about three miles from this town. (Aberdeen.) ' I have had,' says Beattie, ' several conversations with him... | |
 | Robert Southey - Commonplace books - 1849 - 650 pages
...concernnant /' Hittoire, Sfc. des Chinese.—Monthly Review, vol. 60, p. 549. [Anton'i Voyage.] " OHB who was on board the Centurion, in Lord Anson's voyage,...in that expedition, purchased a small estate, about three miles from this town. (Aberdeen.) 'I have had,' says Bcattie, ' several conversations with him... | |
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I have had several conversations with him on the subject of the voyage, and once asked him, whether he had ever read the history of it ? He told me, he had read all the history, except the description of their sufferings during the run from... 
