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 - Page 4861804Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 1801 - 618 pages
...of his being, his father recurred to an ingenious device for this purpose. In a corner of a Ijttle garden, without informing any person of the circumstance,...analogy, found that he already comprehended, that what beH h 3 gin. 47O DR. BEATT.1E. gins to. le must ha-ce a cause, ami ivhat is formed <vyith regularity... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| John Evans - 1807 - 318 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 ruuning to me, and, with astonishment in his countenance, told me that his name... | |
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