 Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well as to read it every syllable through, aloud, hard names and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a year...  The Literary World - Seite 291879Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1905 - 358 Seiten
...my own selection, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart ; as well as to read it every syllable through,...general power of taking pains, and the best part of my taste in literature. From Walter Scott's novels I might easily, as 1 grew older, have fallen to other... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 276 Seiten
...my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart ; as well as to read it every syllable through,...general power of taking pains, and the best part of my taste in literature. From Walter Scott's novels I might easily, as I grew older, have fallen to other... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 626 Seiten
...my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart ; as well as to ; read it every syllable...general power of taking pains, and the best part of my taste in literature. From Walter Scott's novels I might easily, as I grew older, have fallen to other... | |
 | 1871 - 784 Seiten
...his boyhood training : " My mother forced me, by steady, daily toil, to read every syllable through from Genesis to the Apocalypse about once a year ; and to that discipline I owe not only a knowledge of the bonk, which I find occasionally Berviceable, but much of my general... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1878 - 362 Seiten
...my own selection, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart; as well as to read it every syllable through,...general power of taking pains, and the best part of my taste in literature. From Walter Scott's novels I might easily, as I grew older, have fallen to other... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1881 - 244 Seiten
...my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well as to read it every syllable through...general power of taking pains, and the best part of my taste in literature.' . . . ' For toys, I had a bunch of keys to play with as long as I was capable... | |
 | Horace Lorenzo Hastings - 1882 - 254 Seiten
...dailv toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well as to read every syllable through from Genesis to the Apocalypse about once a year ; and to that discipline I owe, not only a knowledge of the Book, which I find occasionally serviceable, but nmch of my general... | |
 | William Smart - 1883 - 124 Seiten
...my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart ; as well as to read it every syllable through,...that discipline — patient, accurate, and resolute — / owe, not only a knowledge of the book, which I find occasionally serviceable, but much of my... | |
 | Marshall Mather - 1883 - 154 Seiten
...says :—" My mother forced me by steady, patient, daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well as to read it every syllable through,...and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once every year; and to that discipline,—patient, accurate, and resolute, I owe, not only a knowledge... | |
 | Rose Georgina Kingsley - 1884 - 150 Seiten
...to give himself to anything else. " She forced me," he says, " to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well as to read it every syllable through...discipline, patient, accurate and resolute, I owe not only my knowledge of the book, but much of my general power of taking pains, and the best part of my taste... | |
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