 | Juvenal - 1802 - 574 sider
...There was indeed a resource ; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl : for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it, to a... | |
 | 1803 - 614 sider
...sceptre. There was indeed a resource; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl: for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great... | |
 | Juvenal - 1803 - 354 sider
...There was indeed a resource ; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great... | |
 | 1803 - 572 sider
...There was indeed a resource ; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl : for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it, to a... | |
 | 1803 - 598 sider
...sceptre. There was indeed a resource; butthe utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted aw!: for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great... | |
 | Juvenal - 1806 - 578 sider
...sceptre. There was indeed a resource; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl: for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it, to a great... | |
 | 1857 - 922 sider
...farthing on earth, nor a friend to give me one. Pen, ink, and paper were therefore, for the most port, as completely out of my reach as a crown and sceptre....wrought my problems on them with an old blunted awl." TLEPOLEMU8. — Glorious tenacity of purpose and courage ! It appears, then, that poverty itself is... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1831 - 952 sider
...There was, indeed, a resource ; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat Out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great... | |
 | Juvenal - 1817 - 496 sider
...There was indeed a resource ; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl : for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it, to a... | |
 | 1830 - 340 sider
...There was, indeed, a resource ; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems-on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and... | |
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... earth, nor a friend to give me one: pen, ink, and paper, therefore, (in despite of the flippant remark of Lord Orford,') were, for the most part, as completely out of my reach, as a crown and sceptre. There was indeed a resource; but the utmost caution... 
