 | John Holland - 1835 - 514 pàgines
...subterranean, laborious, and loathsome employment. I have heard him say," remarks his friend Mr. Dovaston,* "that the remotest recollection of his powerful and...instruction of the moral and intellectual world." At a period when the nation generally was in a state of apparent apathy as regarded the doctrines and... | |
 | 1835 - 642 pàgines
...subterranean, laborious, and loathsome employment. I have heard him say,' remarks his friend Mr. Dovaston, ' that the remotest recollection of his powerful and...and dirty candle, plying the pick with his little bauds—those hands afterwards destined to elevate the arts, illustrate nature, and promulgate her... | |
 | 1851 - 428 pàgines
...was Thomas Bewick, the father of modern wood-engraving. " I have heard him say," remarks a friend, " that the remotest recollection of his powerful and...candle, plying the pick with his little hands — those bands afterwards destined to elevate the arts, illustrate nature, and promulgate her truths, to the... | |
 | 1842 - 788 pàgines
...laborious, and loathsome employment. — " I have heard him say," remarks his friend Mr. Dovaston, " that the remotest recollection of his powerful and...instruction of the moral and intellectual world." ' — History of Fossil Fuel, pp. 289, 290. Since this article was put into type Lord Ashley has obtained... | |
 | 1842 - 586 pàgines
...laborious, and loathsome employment. — •I have heard him say, • remarks his friend Mr. Dovaston , « that the remotest recollection of his powerful and...glimmering and dirty candle , plying the pick with his hands — those hands afterwards destined to elevute the arts, illustrate nature, and promulgate her... | |
 | 1842 - 584 pàgines
...laborious, and loathsome employment. — «l have heard him say, • remarks his friend Mr. Dovaston , « that the remotest recollection of his powerful and...glimmering and dirty candle , plying the pick with his hands — those hands afterwards destined to elevate the arts, illustrate nature, and promulgate her... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 580 pàgines
...laborious, and loathsome employment. — • I have heard him say, » remarks his friend Mr. I invasion, "that the remotest recollection of his powerful and...for hours on his side between dismal strata of coal, hv a glimmering and dirty candle , plying the pick with his hands — those hands afterwards destined... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1857 - 348 pàgines
...sent down to subterranean employment. " I have heard him say," remarks his friend, Mr. Doveston, " that the remotest recollection of his powerful and...instruction of the moral and intellectual world." Lord Ashley's Act, in 1843, put an end to this abuse of children. Huntingdon, the eccentric but popular... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 384 pàgines
...Benton ; and Thomas Bewick, the first English wood engraver. One of Bewick's earliest recollections was that of lying for hours on his side between dismal strata of coal, and plying the pick by the light of a glimmering candle for bread. Amongst the upper-ground workmen... | |
 | Boys - 1881 - 392 pàgines
...wood-engraver, was the son ot a collier. He used to say WILD FLOWERS. 295 that his earliest recollection was that " of lying for hours on his side, between dismal strata of coal, plying the pick with his little hand, by the glimmering light of a dirty candle." The strikes of colliers... | |
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I have heard him say," remarks his friend Mr. Dovaston, " that the remotest recollection of his powerful and tenacious memory was that of lying for hours on his side between dismal strata of coal, by a glimmering and dirty candle, plying the pick with... 
