 ... 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
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 Seiten
...our expenses. Wo 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 satisfaetion, but... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 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... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 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, James Currie - 1869 - 624 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 - 1870 - 652 Seiten
...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 - 1870 - 312 Seiten
...our expenses. We lived very poorly ; I was a "dextrous ploughman, for my age; and th« next eldest to me was a brother (Gilbert), who could drive the plough very well, and help me to thrash the cofn. Л novel-writer might perhaps have viewed these scenes with some satisfaction; but... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 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... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 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 have viewed these scenes with some satisfaction ; but so did... | |
 | James Craig Higgins - 1893 - 252 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 novelwriter might have viewed these scenes with some satisfaction ; but so did not... | |
 | Robert Brown (F.S.A., Scot.) - 1893 - 408 Seiten
...farm, says, " 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 moral writer might have viewed these with some satisfaction ; but so did not I ;... | |
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