 plough to-day, weave to-morrow, help to build a house the third day, and the fourth, if his master need an extra coachman, he will mount the box, and drive four horses abreast as if it were his -daily occupation. None of these operations, except, perhaps,...  Domestic scenes in Russia, letters - Side 141av Richard Lister Venables - 1839 - 348 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1851 - 748 sider
...receiving and profiting by instruction. His versatility is really surprising. " He will," says Venables, " plough to-day, weave to-morrow, help to build a house the third day, and the fourth, if his master need an extra coachman, he will mount the box, and drive four horses abreast as if it were his -daily... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, Robert Gibbes Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1851 - 754 sider
...receiving and profiting by instruction. His versatility is really surprising. " He will," says Venables, " plough to-day, weave to-morrow, help to build a house the third day, and the fourth, if his master need an extra coachman, he will mount the box, and drive four horses abreast as if it were his daily... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1855 - 1010 sider
...astonishing. He is truly a Jack of all trades, and will turn his hand to whatever may be required. He will plough to-day, weave to-morrow, help to build...house the third day, and the fourth, if his master need an extra coachman, he will mount the box, and drive four horses abreast, as if it were his daily... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1866 - 534 sider
...to whatever may be required. ' lie will plough to-day,' says an observer (Vcnables' Kussia, p. 141), 'weave to-morrow, help to build a house the third day, and the fourth, if his master need an extra coachman, he will mount the box, and drive four horses abreast as if it were his daily... | |
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