 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 - Seite 103von Walter Scott - 1835Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1899 - 1284 Seiten
...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,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! " Sturdy, stoical — nay, in a sense pious — petit mattre, for all his foibles and frailties !... | |
 | Edwin Emerson - 1899 - 172 Seiten
...prepare all for this mine own try for Puerto Rico and therefore must needs end my journall here. And so betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to bid God speed to myself, for which and all discomforts that may await me, good fortune attend me.f... | |
 | 1901 - 740 Seiten
...note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much to see myself go into my grave ; for which, and all...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! " Thirty-four years after he had made this entry in his diary hia corpse was brought to the Crutched... | |
 | 1903 - 1048 Seiten
...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...accompany my being blind the good God prepare me." Happily, Pepys did not lose his eyesight, neither was he compelled to entirely relinquish the use of... | |
 | Frederick Bridge - 1903 - 166 Seiten
...pleasures, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand in my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go in to my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God... | |
 | Frederick Bridge - 1903 - 156 Seiten
...own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go in to my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!" With this outburst of genuine feeling ringing in our ears, we can hardly doubt that Pepys had once... | |
 | 1905 - 658 Seiten
...continued, and concludes : " And so I betake niy- ,: to that course, which is almost as muchsj to jw myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me." Of the new edition we can only say that its possession is one of tht most covetable of gifts, furnishing... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1906 - 736 Seiten
...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 ! SP May 31, 1669. END OF THE DIARY INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES ABINGDON, II. 522 Ableson, Captain, killed... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 492 Seiten
...lived in and for it, and might well write these solemn words, when he closed that confidant forever : " And so I betake myself to that course which is almost as much as to see myself go into the grave; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare... | |
 | Austin Brereton - 1907 - 376 Seiten
...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,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! " February 11, 1667. — My Lord carried me and set me down at the New Exchange, where I stayed at... | |
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