 ... hardships, was unfit for labour. My father's spirit was soon irritated, but not easily broken. There was a freedom in his lease in two years more, and, to weather these two years, we retrenched our expenses. We lived very poorly...  The Monthly Epitome - Seite 2811801Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 Seiten
...our expenses. We lived very poorly. I was a dexterous ploughman, for my age; and the next eldest to me was a brother (Gilbert) who could drive the plough very well, and help me to thrash fhe corn. A novel-writer might perhaps have viewed these scenes with some satisfaction, but... | |
 | 1840 - 298 Seiten
...our expenses. We lived very poorly. I was a dexterous ploughman for my age ; and the next eldest to me was a brother (Gilbert) who could drive the plough very well, and help me to thrash the corn This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1841 - 414 Seiten
...our expenses. We lived very poorly : I was a dexterous ploughman for my age ; and the next eldest to me was a brother (Gilbert), who could drive the plough very well, arid help me to thrash the corn. A novel-writer might, perhaps, have viewed these scenes with some... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 Seiten
...our expenses. We lived very poorly : I was a dexterous ploughman for my age ; and the next eldest to me was a brother (Gilbert), who could drive the plough very well, and help me to thrash the corn. A novel-writer might perhaps have viewed these scenes with some satisfaction ; but... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 778 Seiten
...our expenses. We lived very poorly. I was a dexterous ploughman for my age ; and the next eldest to me was a brother (Gilbert), who could drive the plough very well, and help me to thresh the corn This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 Seiten
...our expenses. We lived very poorly. I was a dexterous ploughman for my age; and the next oldest to me was a brother (Gilbert) who could drive the plough very well, and help me to thrash the corn. A novel-writer might, perhaps, have viewed these scenes witrl some satisfaction, but... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 Seiten
...our expenses. We lived very poorly ; I was a dexterous ploughman, for my age; and the next eldest to me was a brother (Gilbert) who could drive the plough very well, and help me to thrash the corn. A novel writer might, perhaps, have viewed these scenes with some satis* faction ;... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 Seiten
...our expenses. We lived very poorly: I was a dexterous ploughman for my age ; and the next eldest to me was a brother (Gilbert), who could drive the plough very well, and help me to thrash the corn. A novel-writer might, perhaps, have viewed these scenes with some satisfaction, but... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 Seiten
...longer and closer intimacy than with any of the others, which did not, howerer, continue in after-life,' was a brother (Gilbert) who could drive the plough very well, and help me to thrash the corn. A novel-writer might perhaps have viewed these scenes with some satisfaction, but... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1858 - 300 Seiten
...our expenses. We lived very poorly. I was a dexterous ploughman for my age ; and the next eldest to me was a brother (Gilbert) who could drive the plough very well, and help me to thrash the corn This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a... | |
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