 I have taken a very great fondness for reading Rollin's Ancient History since you left me. I am determined to go through with it, if possible, in these my days of solitude. I find great pleasure and entertainment from it, and I have persuaded Johnny to...  The Quarterly Review - Side 475redigert av - 1841Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 306 sider
...these my days of solitude. I find great pleasure and entertainment from it, and I have persuaded Johnny to read me a page or two every day, and hope he will,...fruits of the earth. I want much to hear from you. I long impatiently to have you upon the stage of action. The first of September, or the month of September,... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1922 - 340 sider
...these my days of solitude. I find great pleasure and entertainment from it, and I have persuaded Johnny to read me a page or two every day, and hope he will,...fruits of the earth. I want much to hear from you. I long impatiently to have you upon the stage of action. The first of September, or the month of September,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 554 sider
...entertainment from it, and I have persuaded Johnny [her eldest son] to read me a page or two every clay, and hope he will, from his desire to oblige me, entertain...want much to hear from you. / long impatiently to hat* you upon the stage of action. The first of September, or the month of September, perhaps, may... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 176 sider
...these my days of solitude. I find great pleasure and entertainment from it, and I have persuaded Johnny to read me a page or two every day, and hope he will,...desire to oblige me, entertain a fondness for it. I want much to hear from you. I long impatiently to have you upon the stage of action. The 1st of September... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 368 sider
...these my days of solitude. I find great pleasure and entertainment from it, and I have persuaded Johnny to read me a page or two every day, and hope he will,...desire to oblige me, entertain a fondness for it. I want much to hear from you. I long impatiently to have you upon the stage of action. The 1st of September... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1848 - 586 sider
...of my solitude. I find great pleasure and entertainment from it, and have persuaded Johnny to read a page or two every day, and hope he will from his...desire to oblige me, entertain a fondness for it." In that one phrase lies all the philosophy of education. The child of seven years old, who reads a... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 sider
...of my solitude. I find great pleasure and entertainment from it, and have persuaded Johnny to read a page or two every day, and hope he will, from, his desire to oblige me, entertain a VOL. II. 71 fondness for it." In that one phrase lies all the philosophy of education. The child of... | |
 | James Spear Loring - 1852 - 720 sider
...of my solitude. I find great pleasure and entertainment from it, and have persuaded Johnny to read a page or two every day, and hope he will, from his...desire to oblige me, entertain a fondness for it." " The child of seven years old," says Everett, " who reads a serious book with fondness, from his desire... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 366 sider
...these my days of solitude. I find great pleasure and entertainment from it, and I have persuaded Johnny to read me a page or two every day, and hope he will,...his desire to oblige me, -entertain a fondness for if. I want much to hear from you. I long impatiently to have you upon the stage of action. The 1st... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1860 - 356 sider
...these my days of solitude. I find great pleasure and entertainment from it, and I have persuaded Johnny to read me a page or two every day, and hope he will,...desire to oblige me, entertain a fondness for it. I want much to hear from you. I long impatiently to have you upon the etage of action. The 1st of September... | |
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