 I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add, here and there, a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that...  Periodical Criticism - Página 103de Walter Scott - 1835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1880 - 632 páginas
...which cannot be much, now my amours are past, and my eyes hindering me in almost all other pleasures, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me.' It must be remembered that at this time he was only thirtysix. The Diary is in such detail, that though... | |
 | 1854 - 758 páginas
...avail him longer for his secret ciphering, and it is with a great pang that he yields to the necessity, which is " almost as much as to see myself go into my grave," he says, disconsolately, and so conclndes a chronicle which has no equal — the clearest picture ever... | |
 | 1825 - 634 páginas
...shortLand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost аз much as to sec myself go into my grave ; for which and all the discomforts...will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare Framlingham, SIR, Decemher 14, 1825. IT is matter of congratulation to the Unitarian public that the... | |
 | 1826 - 488 páginas
...thing, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short- hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! Astronomical Occurrences In MAY 1826. The smiling hours, the lamp of Lucifer Dimpling the western... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1828 - 486 páginas
...therefore, whatever comes of it, I must forbear : and therefore resolve from this time forward to have it kept by my people in long-hand, and must be contented...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! May 3 1,1669. SP END OF THE DIARY. GENERAL INDEX TO THE DIARY. Abbot, George, Archbishop of Canterbury,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor, John Henry Cooke - 1832 - 92 páginas
...forward to have it kept by my people in long-hand, and must .be contented to set down no more than is lit for them and all the world to know ; or If there be...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me I" t A quick copyist would find he had as much he could well complete in one day, if he undertook to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 páginas
...there a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that conrae, which is almost ns much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the ailcomforts that will accompany ray being blind, the good God prepare me!" Vol. ii. p. 847. From this... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 páginas
...contented to set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know; or if there be anything, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open,...see myself go into my grave, for which, and all the discomfort that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!"—Vol. ii, p. 347. From this... | |
 | 1854 - 696 páginas
...avail him longer for his secret ciphering, and it is with a great pang that he yields to the necessity, which is "almost as much as to see myself go into my grave," he says disconsolately, and so concludes a chronicle which has no equal — the clearest picture ever... | |
 | 1905 - 640 páginas
...other pleasures, tie indicates the manner in which the diary is to be continued, and concludes : " And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me." Of the new edition we can only say that its possession is one of the most covetable of gifts, furnishing... | |
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