 I think you set out for this place in your nine and twentieth year, what have you been doing all this while ? I had a great deal of business on my hands, says she, being taken up the first twelve years of my life in dressing a jointed baby, and all the...  The Guardian - Page 280by Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1714 - 347 pagesFull view - About this book
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...deal of business on my hands, says she, being taken up the first twelve years of my life, in dressing a jointed baby, and all the remaining part of it in reading plays and romances. Very well, says he, you have employed your time to good purpose. Away with her! The next was a plain country-woman;... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 280 pages
...of business on my hands,' says she, ' being taken up the first twelve years of my life, in dressing a jointed baby, and all the remaining part of it in reading plays and romances.' ' Very well,' says he, 'you have employed your time to good purpose. Away with her!' The next was a plain countrywoman.... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 264 pages
...of business on my hands,' says she, ' being taken up the first twelve years of my life, in dressing a jointed baby, and all the remaining part of it in reading plays and romances.' — ' Veryiwell,' says he, ' you have employed your time to good purpose. Away with her !' The next... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...deal of business on my hands, says she, being taken up the first twelve years of my life in dressing he Psalmist— to rejoice in him al ways, and to think " one day in his courts better says he, you have employed your time to good purpose. Away with her. The next was a plain country-woman... | |
 | Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...deal of business on my hands, says she, being taken up the first twelve years of my life in dressing a jointed baby, and all the remaining part of it in reading plays and romances. 26. Very well, says he, you have employed your time to good purpose. Away with her. Thenext'wasa plain... | |
 | 1826 - 316 pages
...of business on my hands," says she, " being taken up the first twelve years of my life, in dressing a jointed baby, and all the remaining part of it in reading plays and romances." — " Very well," says he, " you have employed your time to good purpose. Away with her!" The next was a plain countrywoman.... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 402 pages
...of business on my hands," says she, " being taken up the first twelve years of my life in dressing a jointed baby, and all the remaining part of it in reading plays and romances." " Very well," says he, " you have employed your time to good purpose. Away with her !" The next was a plain country... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...of business on my hands," says she, " being taken up the first twelve years of my life in dressing a jointed baby, and all the remaining part of it in reading plays and romances." " Very well," says he, " you have employed your time to good purpose. Away with her !" The next was a plain country... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 412 pages
...of business on my hands," says she, " being taken up the first twelve years of my life in dressing a jointed baby, and all the remaining part of it in reading plays and romances." " Very well," says he, " you have employed your time to good purpose. Away with her !" The next was a plain country... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...of business on my hands," says she, " being taken up the first twelve years of my life in dressing a jointed baby, and all the remaining part of it in reading plays and romances." " Very well," says he, " you have employed your time to good purpose. Away with her !" The next was a plain country... | |
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