 | 1803 - 598 pages
...constituted the whole of my literary acquisitions. As I hated my new profession with a perfect hatred, I made no progress in it; and was consequently little...however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr.Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite study, at every interval of leisure.... | |
 | 1803 - 614 pages
...constituted the whole of my literary acquisitions. As I hated my new profession with a perfect hatred, I made no progress in it; and was consequently little...disquiet me, for my spirits were now humbled. I did fiot however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr.Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly... | |
 | Juvenal - 1806 - 582 pages
...I made no progress in it ; and was conse(quently littk regarded in the family, of which J • sun k by degrees into the common drudge : this did not much...disquiet me, for my spirits were now humbled. I did not howevejr quite resign ;the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1831 - 952 pages
...constituted the whole of my literary acquisitions. " As 1 hated my new profession with a perfect hatred, I made no progress in it ; and was consequently little...however, quite resign the hope of one day succeeding Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite study at every interval of leisure.... | |
 | 1830 - 340 pages
...constituted the whole of my literary acquisitions. As I hated my new profession with a perfect hatred, I made no progress in it ; and was consequently little regarded in the family, of which I sank by degrees into the common drudge : this did not much disquiet me, for my spirits were now humbled.... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 390 pages
...which now lies before me, is datea the 1st of January, 1772. hatred, I made uo progress in it ; «nd was consequently little regarded in the family, of...resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdou, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite study, at every interval of leisure. These... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 892 pages
...perfect • Mr imlnitiire. whic'n aow lies befan ше, if datad Ib« Ut of Jaauarjr, 1772. hatred, I made no progress in it ; and was consequently little...for my spirits were now humbled. I did not however quit« resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted... | |
 | 1827 - 394 pages
...hin? apprentice to a shoemaker. " As I hated," says he, " my new profession with a perfect hatred, I made no progress in it; and was consequently little...disquiet me, for my spirits were now humbled. " I possessed at this time but one book in the world ; it was a treatise on aljr«— bra, given to me... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 452 pages
...perfect • Mr indenture, which now lies before me, is dated the Itt of January, 177-'. hatred, I made na progress in it ; and was consequently little regarded...did not much disquiet me, for my spirits were now tumbled. I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore... | |
 | 1827 - 728 pages
...bound, till I should attain the age of twenty-one. " As I hated my new profession with a perfect hatred, I made no progress in it ; and was consequently little...into the common drudge: this did not much disquiet rne, for my spirits were now humbled. I did not, however, quite resign the hope of one day succeeding... | |
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I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite study, at every interval of leisure. These intervals were not very frequent; and when the use I made of them was found out,... 
