 | 1797 - 350 pàgines
...bed-fide, and prefling his hand affeftionately, told him that he was juft going to die. Little Jack burfl into a flood of tears at this information, but his...able to give him. " I have lived, faid the old man, a gresjt many years, in poverty, but I do not know that I have been worfe off than if I had been rich.... | |
 | Thomas Day - 1822 - 80 pàgines
...compose himself, and attend to the last advice he should be able to give him. « I have lived , » said the old man , « a great many years in poverty, but I do not know that I havebeenworse off than if I had been rich , I have avoided ^ perhaps , many faults , and many uneasinesses... | |
 | Thomas Day - 1828 - 292 pàgines
...compose hhnself, and attend to the last advice he should be able'to give him. 33. " I have lived," said the old man, " a great many years in poverty, but I do not know that I have been worse off than if I had been rich ; I have avoided, perhaps, many faults, and many uneasinesses, which... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 216 pàgines
...compose himself, and attend to the last advice he should be able to give him. ' I have lived,' said the old man, ' a great many years in poverty, but I do not know that I have been worse off than if I had been rich ; and though I have often wanted a meal, and always fared hard, I... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1870 - 518 pàgines
...compose himself, and attend to the last advice he should be able to give him. ' I have lived,' said the old man, ' a great many years in poverty, but I do not know that I have been worse off than if I had been rich. I have avoided, perhaps, many faults and many uneasinesses, which... | |
 | 1901 - 578 pàgines
...compose himself, and attend to the last advice he should be able to give him. ' I have lived,' said the old man, ' a great many years in poverty, but I do not know that I have been worse off than if I had been rich. I have avoided, perhaps, many faults and many uneasinesses, which... | |
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I have lived,' said the old man, ' a great many years in poverty, but I do not know that I have been worse off than if I had been rich. I have avoided, perhaps, many faults and many uneasinesses, which I should have incurred had I been in another situation... 