 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
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 Seiten
...cannot be much, now my amours to Deb 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. JOHN BUNYAN "PRESENTLY after this I changed my condition into a •*• married state, and my mercy... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 544 Seiten
...every time that I take a pen in my hand; and therefore whatever oomes of it I must forbear. ... And GO I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into ray grave ; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare... | |
 | Austin Brereton - 1908 - 382 Seiten
...fit for them and all the world to know; or if there be anything, I must endeavour to keep a margin hi my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand...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... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1909 - 412 Seiten
...not be much, now my amours to Deb 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 is a sad thing to say farewell to the Pepys of the Diary, to know there will be no more of those... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1910 - 482 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 THE END. UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON. FROM SIDGWICK & JACKSON'S... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1910 - 358 Seiten
...thirty-six when he gave over writing his Diary through approaching blindness. He wrote on May 29, 1669 : " And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost...accompany my being blind, the Good God prepare me ! " JB Massillon preached the Advent course of sermons at Versailles in 1699, and at once sprang into... | |
 | 1910 - 514 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... | |
 | John Kelman - 1912 - 350 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 ! — SP" It is comforting to know that, in spite of these fears, he did not grow blind, but preserved... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 534 Seiten
...almost every time that I take a pen in my hand; and therefore whatever comes of it I must forbear.... And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me! SP We know that Pepys did not become blind, and that he lived for over thirty-three years after the... | |
 | 1914 - 260 Seiten
...Diary, and only thirty-six when he gave up writing on account of his eyesight, saying that to do so is "almost as much as to see myself go into my grave." But he lived to be seventy years of age, and although he was only a public servant for part of that... | |
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