| 1856 - 686 pages
...the price oí coali or potatoes. Tbe questions of the child, that should be tbe тегу outpouring* of curiosity in idleness, are marked with forecast and melancholy providence. It has come to tw -л woman before U wns a child.*' There are two classes of old children. First, the precocious,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...the promised sight or play ; of praised sufficiency at school. It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions...come to be a woman, — before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs ; it is knowing, acute*! sharpened... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 pages
...forecast and melancholy providence. It has come to be a woman, — before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies,...is knowing, acute, sharpened ; it never prattles. Had we not reason to say, that the home of the very poor is no home ? There is yet another home, which... | |
| 1846 - 698 pages
...the promised sight or play, of praised sufficiency at school. It is of mangling and clearstarching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes ! The questions...has come to be a woman before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs ; it is knowing, acute, sharpened... | |
| 1846 - 570 pages
...of nursery books, of summer holidays. It is of mangling, and clear-starching, of the price of coal, or of potatoes. The questions of the child, that should...come to be a woman — before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, acute, sharpened — it... | |
| 1846 - 278 pages
...price of coal.«, or of 'potatoes. It has come to he a woman hefore it was a child ! It has learned to go to market ; it chaffers, It haggles, it envies, it murmurs, it is knowing, aente, sharpened; it never prattles. DUTY FIRST. — A pious monk one day, when he had heen unusually... | |
| 1847 - 806 pages
...the promised sight, or play; of praised sufliciency at school. It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions...marked with forecast and melancholy providence. It has conie to be a woman before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it chaffers, it haggles,... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1850 - 696 pages
...promised sight or play, of praised sufficiency at school ; — it is of mangling and clear-starching — of the price of coals or of potatoes. The questions...has come to be a woman before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it chaflers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, acute, sharpened;... | |
| J. S. S. Rothwell - 1850 - 364 pages
...No, but 1 have heard Jenny Lind sing. „ Let him alone , he is not to be persuaded. __ Poor thing ! It has come to be a woman, before it was a child. (43) How did England come to know that Louis XV. assisted the Americans? Threugh her Ambassador. Should... | |
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 pages
...br play ; tif praised sufficiency at school. It is 6f mangling and clearstarching, of the price 6f coals, or of potatoes. The questions of the child,...very outpourings of curiosity in idleness, are marked •frith forecast and melancholy providence. It has come to be a woman — before it was a child. It... | |
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