| Orison Swett Marden - 1900 - 282 sider
...did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candles or oil ; in winter it was rarely that I could get any evening light but...fire, and only my turn, even, of that. To buy a pen or a sheet of paper I was compelled to forego some portion of my food, though in a state of half-starvation.... | |
| Lewis Henry Jones - 1903 - 428 sider
...lying on my lap r, was my writing table ; and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter...but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. 10 " Think not lightly of the farthing that I had to give, now and then, for ink, pen, or paper. That... | |
| Lewis Henry Jones - 1903 - 424 sider
...lying on my lap .-, was my writing table ; and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter...but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. 10 " Think not lightly of the farthing that I had to give, now and then, for ink, pen, or paper. That... | |
| Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - 1904 - 364 sider
...lying on my lap was my writing-table ; and the task did not demand any thing like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil; in winter time it was rarely that I could get any evening-light but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. And if I, under such circumstances,... | |
| Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - 1904 - 368 sider
...lying on my lap was my writing-table ; and the task did not demand any thing like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter time it was rarely that I could get any evening-light but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. And if I, under such circumstances,... | |
| Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - 1904 - 364 sider
...lying on my lap was my writing-table ; and the task did not demand any thing like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter time it was rarely that I could get any evening-light but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. And if I, under such circumstances,... | |
| 1905 - 474 sider
...seat to study in ; my knapsack was my bookcase ; a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing table. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter...but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. " Think not lightly of the farthing that I had to give, • now and then, for ink, pen, or paper. That... | |
| Robert Waters - 1909 - 388 sider
...had no money to purchase candle or oil; in winter, it was rarely that I could get any evening-light but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. To buy a pen or a sheet of paper, I was compelled to forego some portion of my food, though in a state of half starvation.... | |
| 1925 - 900 sider
...not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter-time it was rarely that I could get any evening light but...and only my turn even of that. . . . To buy a pen or a sheet of paper I was compelled to forego some portion of food, though in a state of half-starvation.... | |
| George Douglas Howard Cole - 1925 - 504 sider
...lying on my lap was my writingtable ; and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life. I had no money to purchase candle or oil ; in winter time it was rarely that I could get any evening-light but that of the fire, and only my turn even of that. And if I, under such circumstances,... | |
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