 and tell you a truth which, perchance, ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that He sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak,...  AN ENGLISH PROSE MISCELLANY - Page 87by JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907Full view - About this book
 | 1845 - 432 pages
...will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For,...merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as... | |
 | 1845 - 384 pages
...will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For,...merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as... | |
 | People's and Howitt's journal - 938 pages
...talking of John Aylmer, afterwards bishop of London. " For when," she continues, " I am in presence of father or mother ; whether I speak, keep silence,...eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, or dancing "—for womanly accomplishments and handicrafts were as familiar to her as learning —... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1847 - 320 pages
...will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For,...must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number,even so perfectly as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and ޔ X t! anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as... | |
 | 1847 - 412 pages
...will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For,...merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and ao as the process ; And of the cannibals that each other eat, The anthropophagi, and men anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as... | |
 | 1856 - 978 pages
...will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever GOD gave me is, that He sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster : for,...sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be playing or sewing, dancing or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For...speak, keep silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, he merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in... | |
 | 1847 - 508 pages
...will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is that He sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence of either father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry,... | |
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