 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 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...guess the motives for this at first ; but at length 1 discovered that my master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. " I possessed... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Biography - 1865 - 590 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...guess the, motives for this at first ; but at length 1 discovered that my master destined his youngest son for the situation to which I aspired. " I possessed... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 650 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,... 
