I was disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood... The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Página 343por James Boswell - 1823Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1859 - 868 páginas
...White, he stated' that he had been disobedient to his ftther, and that ne felt pride to be the cause. " A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault....father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, nnd I hope the penance was expiatory." In his last year he surprised not a little Mr. Henderson, by... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 páginas
...went into the market, at the lime of business, uncovered my head, and stood with it bare, for an hour, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand....contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." Who does not figure lo himself this spectacle, amid the " rainy weather, and the sneers," or wonder,... | |
| 1939 - 532 páginas
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| Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 páginas
...that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago (but a few before his death), I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter...father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and hope the penance was expiatory." Whatever we may think of this mode of punishment, a mode recommended... | |
| Robert Armitage - 1850 - 476 páginas
...that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago (but a few before his death), I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter...father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and hope the penance was expiatory." Whatever we may think of this mode of punishment, a mode recommended... | |
| 1850 - 392 páginas
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| James Boswell - 1851 - 322 páginas
...and UTTOXETER MARKET-PLACE. lie remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone or this fault ; I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a the corporation of Lichfield, in the year 1707, had for the merits and learning of Dr. Johnson. His... | |
| 1852 - 590 páginas
...went into the market, at the time of business, uncovered my head, and stood with it bare, for an hour, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand....contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." Who does not figure to himself this spectacle, amid the " rainy weather, and the sneers," or wonder,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 130 páginas
...into the market, at the time of business, uncovered my •head, and stood with it bare, for an hour, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand....contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.' Who does not figure to himself this spectacle, amid the 'rainy weather, and the sneers/ or wonder,... | |
| 1859 - 844 páginas
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