 | Mary Milner - 1848 - 808 sider
...either with the youngest child upon her knee, or, if it was in the cradle, knitting while she read. She used to say, that it was disagreeable and improper...and when he was gone out, the work must be done up." Most valuable is the lesson here suggested to wives and mothers ! The cottage-matron would do well... | |
 | 1851 - 316 sider
...prepare for a heavenly morning." A MAXIM FOR HOME. — My mother used to say, that " it was disagreeable to be bustling about while father was within ; and...wisely and well ! What different scenes would the laboring man's home present, if they did. How many a man would be saved from the alehouse fireside,... | |
 | Barbara H. Farquhar - 1848 - 134 sider
...either with the youngest child upon her knee, or, if .it was in the cradle, knitting while she read. She used to say, that it was disagreeable and improper...and when he was gone out, the work must be .done up. At these times, books of every kind that came to hand were read, unless, indeed, there was in their... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1848 - 626 sider
...either with the youngest child upon her knee, or, if it was in the cradle, knitting while she read. She used to say, that it was disagreeable and improper...and when he was gone out the work must be done up.' — Again we hear of this judicious cottage training. ' Viewing the practice of allowing children to... | |
 | 1849 - 444 sider
...either with the youngest child upon her knee, or, if it was in the cradle, knitting while she read. She used to say that it was disagreeable and improper...and when he was gone out, the work must be done up. ABUSE OF VILLAGE FEASTS. THE annual village feast was intended to be a religious observance. A church... | |
 | 1849 - 244 sider
...with the youngest child upon her knee, or, if it was in the cradle, knitting while she read. She useL. to say, that it was disagreeable and improper to be...and when he was gone out, the work must be done up. At these times, books of every kind that came to hand were read, unless, indeed, there was in their... | |
 | Barbara H. Farquhar - 1850 - 82 sider
...either with the youngest child upon her knee, or, if it was in the cradle, knitting while she read. She used to say, that it was disagreeable and improper...and when he was gone out, the work must be done up. At these times, books of every kind that came to hand were read, unless, indeed, there was in their... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 sider
...either with the youngest child upon her knee, or, if it was in the cradle, knitting while she read. She used to say, that it was disagreeable and improper...and when he was gone out, the work must be done up. At these times, books of every kind that came to hand were read, unless, indeed, there was in their... | |
 | 1850 - 632 sider
...and enjoyment to her family, and especially to her husband; and so far did she carry this, that she used to say that " it was disagreeable and improper...and when he was gone out the work must be done up." Too poor to provide schooling for her numerous family, she herself became their instructor; and her... | |
 | 1863 - 334 sider
...and enjoyment to her family, and especially to her husband; and so far did she carry this, that she used to say that " it was disagreeable and improper...and when he was gone out the work must be done up." Too poor to provide schooling for her numerous family, she herself became their instructor; and her... | |
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... father came to breakfast or dinner, as soon as the repast was finished, (and a working man in health does not usually loiter over his meals,) our mother used to read aloud till the hour was finished, either with the youngest child upon her knee, or,... 
