| 1823 - 496 Seiten
...elements to strife. For all that he has endured, our mariner has only been made a gunner s mate ; but " one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle." Poor Bill was not a spoon-hill, tie was brought up to the sea; for lue was born on hoard the ship,... | |
| Alexander Balfour, Campbell (fict. name.) - 1819 - 972 Seiten
...his success, and attempted to disguise my own feelings, by quoting Goldsmith's observation, that " one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle '" " Nay," said he, " Will, you are wrong : rather say, " There is a tide in the affairs of men, That,... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 Seiten
...ship, and not aL2 board a privateer, I should have been entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life ! but that was not my chance. One man's born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden laddie. However, I enjoy good... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 508 Seiten
...king's ship, and ' not a privateer, I should have been entitled to ' clothing and maintenance during the rest of my ' life, but that was not my chance ; one man is bora ' with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with ' a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God,... | |
| 1822 - 694 Seiten
...elements to strife. For all that he has endured, our mariner has only been made a gunner's mate ; but " one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle." Poor Bill was not a spoon-bill. He was brought up to the sea; for he was born on board ship, cradled... | |
| Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 Seiten
...elements to strife. For all that he has endured, our mariner has only heen made a gunner's mate ; but " one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle." Poor Bill was not a spoon-bill. He was brought up to the sea ; for he was born on board ship, cradled... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 Seiten
...ship, and not on board a privateer, I should have been entitled to clothing and maintenance during uth, and became a new man. I considered myself as...dignity ; since by wearing a band, which is no small Ho we ver, blessed be God, I enjoy good health, and will for ever love liberty and Old England. Liberty,... | |
| Saturday night - 1824 - 968 Seiten
...cleimnu to >trife. For all that he has endured, our mariner has only been made a gunner's mate ; but " one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle." Poor Bill was not a spoon-bill. He was brought up to the sea ; for he was born on board' ship, cradled... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 514 Seiten
...a king's ship, and not a privateer, I should have been entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life ; but that was not my chance ;...and another with a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God, I enjoy good health, and have no enemy in this world that I know of, but the French and the... | |
| 1826 - 450 Seiten
...not a-board a privateer, I ihould ' have been entitled to cloathing and ' maintenance during the reft of my ' life ! but that was not my chance : ' one man is born with a filver fpoon ' in his mouth, and another with a ' wooden ladle. However, bjefled be *' God, I enjoy... | |
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