 | 1844 - 784 páginas
...them — a gleaner of old traditionary stories ; aad now I was going to exchange all my daydreams, and all my amusements, for the kind of life in which...and eat every day that they may be enabled to toil.' (p. 4.) So he began his life as an humble quarryman, and his natural inquisitiveness immediately rendered... | |
 | 1843 - 628 páginas
...get them, a gleaner of old traditionary stories ; and now I was going to exchange all my day dreams and all my amusements, for the kind of life in which...lay on the southern shore of a noble inland bay, or a frith rather, with a little clear stream on the one side, and a thick fir wood on the other. It had... | |
 | 1858 - 1194 páginas
...neither a poetic reverie nor a laughing holiday ; and sadly and reluctantly enough to begin that " kind of life in which men toil every day that they...and eat every day that they may be enabled to toil." In the first chapter of his " Old Red Sandstone," he has given us a graphic description of the experiences... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1842 - 358 páginas
...them, — a gleaner of old traditionary stories ; and now I was going to exchange all my day-dreams, and all my amusements, for the kind of life in which...southern shore of a noble inland bay, or frith rather, with a little clear stream on the one side, and a thick fir wood on the other. It had been opened in... | |
 | 1850 - 638 páginas
...them — a gleaner of old traditionary stories — and now I was going to exchange all my day-dreami and all my amusements for the kind of life in which...Cromarty,) with a little clear stream on the one side, nnd a thick fir wood on the other. It had been opened in the old red sandstone of the district, and... | |
 | 1848 - 916 páginas
...gleaner of old traditionary stories ; and now I was going to exchange all my day-dreams and all ray amusements, for the kind of life in which men toil...to eat, and eat every day that they may be enabled U> toil ! .... This was no very formidable beginning of the course of life I had so much dreaded. To... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - 324 páginas
...stories; and now I was going to exchange all my day-dreams, and all my amusements, for the kind of t life in which men toil every day that they may be enabled to jeat, and cat every day thai they may be enabled to toil! The quarry in which I wrought lay on the... | |
 | 1855 - 664 páginas
...them — a gleaner of old traditionary stories ; and now I was going to exchange all my day-dream?, and all my amusements, for the kind of life in which...and eat every day that they may be enabled to toil!" him true to the love and pursuit of knowledge. He has fairly earned the right to say, "Noble, upright,... | |
 | William Garland Barrett - 1855 - 340 páginas
...describe this library of God's books that was so long his wonder and his study in Cromartyshire. " The quarry in which I wrought lay on the southern shore of a noble inland bay, or frith rather, with a little clear stream on the one side, and a thick fir-wood on the other. Not the united labours... | |
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... the portion of my life which had already gone by had been happy beyond the common lot. I had been a wanderer among rocks and woods, a reader of curious books when I could get them, a gleaner of old traditionary stories ; and now I was going to exchange... 
