 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 502 pàgines
...where his mother was entertaining some visitors, walked into the circle, and said very solemnly : " Cursed be Sally : for it is written, Cursed is he that removeth his neighbour's land-mark." While still the merest child he was sent as a dayscholar to Mr. Greaves, a shrewd Yorkshireman with... | |
 | 1876 - 806 pàgines
...little garden, he pronounced, with startling but delightful adherence to his Old Testament training, "Cursed be Sally; for it is written, Cursed is he that removeth his neighbour's landmark ! " These are the first records of the future legislator and historian. He hated school, but very soon... | |
 | 1876 - 400 pàgines
...where his mother was entertaining some visitors, walked into the circle, and said very solemnly : ' Cursed be Sally ; for it is written, Cursed is he that removeth his neighbour's landmark.' " Before he was eight, he wrote a Compendium of Universal History ; "a paper which Henry Daly was to... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 430 pàgines
...where his mother was entertaining some visitors, walked into the circle, and said, very solemnly, " Cursed be Sally ; for it is written, Cursed is he that removeth his neighbor's landmark." AVhile still the merest child, he was sent as a day-scholar to Mr. Greaves, a... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pàgines
...where his mother was entertaining some visitors, walked into the circle, and said very solemnly : " Cursed be Sally : for it is written, Cursed is he that removeth his neighbor's land-mark." While still the merest child he was sent as a day scholar to Mr. Greaves, a... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 542 pàgines
...such conventional forms, but in a man of the world, of letters, of politics ; of business, ambitions and eager for success ; not by any means indifferent...recorded that he used to identify a little mound on Glapham Common with Mount Sinai, and that he had equally good and lively reasons for taking a keen... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 236 pàgines
...where his mother was entertaining some visitors, walked into the circle, and said very solemnly, " Cursed be Sally ; for it is written, Cursed is he that removeth his neighbour's landmark." ' Mrs. Macaulay explained to Tom that he must learn to study without the solace of bread and butter,... | |
 | 1879 - 336 pàgines
...entertaining some visitors, walked into the circle, and said very solemnly: 236 THE CASKET OF LITERARY GEMS. " Cursed be Sally: for it is written, Cursed is he that removeth his neighbor's land-mark." ******* The secret of his immense acquirements lay in two invaluable gifts of... | |
 | 1894 - 834 pàgines
...into the drawing-room where his mother was entertaining some visitors, and solemnly exclaimed, — "Cursed be Sally! for it is written, 'Cursed is he that removeth his neighbor's landmark!' " He astonished his mother one day by announcing this sentiment, "Industry shall... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1881 - 290 pàgines
...drawing-room, where his mother was entertaining some visitors, walked into the circle, and said very solemnly: "Cursed be Sally: for it is written, Cursed is he that removeth his neighbour's land-mark.' " Born 1800, died 1859. THE PERSON WHO SHAVED HIM. Macaulay, it appears, was unhandy to a degree quite... | |
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He had a little plot of ground at the back of the house, marked out as his own by a row of oyster-shells which a maid one day threw away as rubbish. He went straight to the drawing-room, where his mother was entertaining some visitors, walked into the... 
