 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 Atlantic Monthly - Seite 291896Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 Seiten
...weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall 3 used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." 1 To whom there is a memorial tablet in Lichfield Cathedral with this inscription : " Henry White,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 Seiten
...weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall 1 used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." 1 To whom there is a memorial tablet in Lichfield Cathedral with this inscription : " Henry White,... | |
 | John Heyl Vincent, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, John Thomas McFarland - 1893 - 430 Seiten
...any of you !" An incident from the life of Dr. Johnson is worthy of note. " Once, indeed," he says, " I was disobedient. I refused to attend my father to...father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood." Urge your boys and girls to filial reverence. 62. Limitations of knowledge necessitate inquiry. Ver.... | |
 | James Samuel Stone - 1894 - 238 Seiten
...Samuel refused to go. He has himself told the circumstance and its result. Said he: "Once, indeed, I was disobedient: I refused to attend my father to...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." There have been those who have taken this as a proof— a painful proof, I think they call it — of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1894 - 632 Seiten
...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....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 - 1895 - 300 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 Seiten
...rain, on the spot where my father's stall (book-stall: Michael Johnson was a bookseller and publisher) used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." — Boswell' s Life of Johnson. 6 Michael Augelo. think, speaks of the town (its name is pronounced... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 304 Seiten
...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 - 1897 - 652 Seiten
...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. In contrition T stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." Who does not figure to himself this spectacle, amid... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 232 Seiten
...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,... | |
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