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" ... plan to Carlile, he treated it with the utmost contempt; and told me, in his turn, that, as I had learned enough, and more than enough, at school, he must be considered as having fairly discharged his duty (so, indeed, he had) ; he added, that he... "
The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis - Page xii
by Juvenal - 1803
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The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties

George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 590 pages
...his duty (so, indeed, he had) ; he added, that he had been negotiating with his cousin, a shoemaker of some respectability, who had liberally agreed to...apprentice. I was so shocked at this intelligence that 1 did not remonstrate ; but went in sullenness and silence to my new master, to whom I was soon after...
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. Continuation

George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...his duty (so, indeed, he had) ; he added, that he had heen negotiating with his cousin, a shoemaker of some respectability, who had liberally agreed to...apprentice. I was so shocked at this intelligence that 1 did not remonstrate ; but went in sullenness and silence to my new master, to whom I was soon after...
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Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 16

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 264 pages
...discharged his duty (so indeed he had) ; he added that he had been negotiating with his cousin, a shoemaker of some respectability, who had liberally agreed to...bound, till I should attain the age of twenty-one. world : it was a treatise on Algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodging-house....
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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volumes 15-16

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 526 pages
...discharged his duty (so indeed he had) ; he added that he had been negotiating with his cousin, a shoemaker of some respectability, who had liberally agreed to...bound, till I should attain the age of twenty-one. 'At this time,' he continues, 'I possessed but one book in the world : it was a treatise on Algebra,...
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Golden Sheaves Gathered from the Fields of Ancient and Modern Literature: A ...

Horace A. Cleveland - 1869 - 610 pages
...discharged his duty (so indeed he had ;) he added that he had been negotiating with his cousin, a shoemaker of some respectability, who had liberally agreed to...soon after bound, till I should attain the age of twenty -one. "At this time I possessed but one book in the world: it was a treatise on algebra, given...
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. Continuation

George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 pages
...his duty (so, indeed, he had) ; he added that he had been negotiating with his cousin, a shoemaker of some respectability, who had liberally agreed to...bound till I should attain the age of twenty-one.' Up to this period his reading had been very limited, the only books he had perused, besides the Bible,...
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Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers

William Edward Winks - 1883 - 454 pages
...with his cousin, a shoemaker of some respectability, who had liberally consented to take me, without fee, as an apprentice. I was so shocked at this intelligence that I did not venture to remonstrate, but went in sullenness and silence to my new master, to whom I was bound till...
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