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" In a corner of a little garden, without informing any person of the circumstance, I wrote in the mould, with my finger, the three initial letters of his name; and, sowing garden cresses in the furrows, covered up the seed, and smoothed the ground. Ten... "
Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 - 1809-10 - Page 469
1801
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1800 - 572 pages
...circumstance, I wrote in the mould, with my finger, the three initial letters of his naine ; and, sowing garden cresses in the furrows, covered up the seed, and smoothed the ground. Ten days after, he came running to me, and with astonishment in his countenance told me, that his name...
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Public Characters, Volume 4

1804 - 646 pages
...of his being, his father recurred to an ingenious device for this purpose. In a corner of a little garden, without informing any person of the circumstance,...analogy found that he already comprehended, that what be* / DR. BEATTIE.' 487 • gins to be must have a cause, and what is formed with regularity must have...
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The minstrel: in two books: with some other poems. To which are now added ...

James Beattie - 1803 - 240 pages
...I wrote in the mould, with my finger-, the three initial letters of his name; and, sowing gar-> den cresses in the furrows, covered up the seed, and smoothed the ground. Ten days after, he came run* ning to me, and with astonishment in his counte* nance told me, that his...
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Public Characters

1804 - 636 pages
...he wrote in the mould with his finger the three initials of his son's name, and sowing cresses _in the furrows, covered up the seed and smoothed the...analogy found that he already comprehended, that what be* gins / gins to be must have a cause, and what is formed with regularity must have an intelligent...
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Biographia Scotica; or, Scottish biographical dictionary

John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1805 - 452 pages
...circumstance, I wrote in the mould with my finger the three initial letters of his name ; and, sowing garden cresses in the furrows, covered up the seed, and smoothed the ground. Ten days after, he came running up to me, and with astonishment in his countenance told me, that his...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 1, Part 1

1805 - 506 pages
...circumstance, I wrote in the mould with my finger, the three initial letters of his name, and sowing garden cresses in the furrows, covered up the seed, and smoothed the ground. Ten days after he came running to me, and, with astonishment in his countenance, told 'me that his...
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The Juvenile Plutarch:: Containing Accounts of the Lives of Celebrated ...

1806 - 224 pages
...circumstance, he wrote in the mould with his finger the three initials of his son's name, and sowing-cresses in the furrows, covered up the seed, and smoothed...to his own person, and teaching him to reason from anaJamai JHay ffieaMif,t ertr/y /i <so reaM»u-nt. JPut.ln, logy, found that he already comprehended,...
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The Panoplist, Or, the Christian's Armory, Volume 2

1807 - 612 pages
...circumstance, I wrote in the mould with my finger, the three initial letters of his name, and sowing garden cresses in the furrows, covered up the seed, and smoothed the ground. Ten days after he came running to me, and with astonishment in his countenance, told me that his name...
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The Minstrel: In Two Books, with Some Other Poems, Volume 2

James Beattie, James Hay Beattie - 1807 - 212 pages
...circumstance, I wrote in the mould, with my finger, the three initial letters of his name; and, sowing garden cresses in the furrows, covered up the seed, and smoothed the ground. Ten days after, he came running to me, and with astonishment in his countenance told me, that his name...
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The Panoplist (and Missionary magazine) conducted by an association of ...

1807 - 682 pages
...circumstance, I wrote in the mould with my finger, the three initial letters of his name-, and sowing garden cresses in the furrows, covered up the seed, and smoothed the ground. Ten days after he came running to me, and with astonishment in his countenance, told me that his name...
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