 | George Lillie Craik - Education - 1830 - 452 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not, however, quite resign my hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. " I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on algebra,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 464 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not, however, quite resign my hope of one day succeeding to Mr Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...could not guess the motives for this at first ; but nt length I discovered that my master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired.... | |
 | William Jerdan - Great Britain - 1832 - 472 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not, however, quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. " I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on algebra,... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Biography - 1832 - 342 pages
...resign my hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favorite study, at every interval of leisure. These intervals...for this at first, but at length I discovered that ray master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. " I possessed, at this time,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...resign my hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favorite study at every interval of leisure. These intervals...guess the motives for this at first ; but at length I dis* ' My indenture, which now lies before me, is dated the 1st of January, 1772,' covered that my... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 936 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...were not very frequent ; and when the use I made of the.n was found out, they were rendered still less so. I could not guess the motives for this at first... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 282 pages
...did not, however, quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr Hugh Smerdon, (his schoolmaster,) and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite study...master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a ' Treatise on Algebra,'... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 984 pages
...day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite study, at cvt-ry interval of leisure. These intervals were not very frequent ; and when the use I made of Ihe.n was found out, they were rendered still less so. 1 could not guess the motives for this at first... | |
 | William Hone - Great Britain - 1838 - 890 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...were not very frequent ; and when the use I made of the-n was found out, they were rendered still less so. I could not guess the motives for this at first... | |
 | Self-culture - 1840 - 298 pages
...spirits were now humbled. I did not, however, quite resign my hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite...master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. " I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on algebra,... | |
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I did not however quite resign the hope of one day succeeding to Mr. Hugh Smerdon, and therefore secretly prosecuted my favourite study, at every interval of leisure. These intervals were not very frequent ; and when the use I made of them was found out,... 
