 I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly...  English Studies: Or, Essays in English History and Literature - Page 112by John Sherren Brewer - 1881 - 448 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1852 - 798 pages
...schoolmaster ; for when I am in the presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, or doing any thing else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be...so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharplv taunted, so cruellv threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and... | |
 | John William Donaldson - 1853 - 244 pages
...schoolmaster.8 For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be...measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world,9 or else I am so sharply taunted,10 so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1853 - 332 pages
...schoolmaster; for when I am in presence cither of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be...doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such'measure, weight, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1853 - 946 pages
...schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, 1 am во sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs,... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1853 - 310 pages
...schoolmaster. For when I am in the presence of either father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or' doing any thing else, I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as... | |
 | Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen Owen - 1854 - 452 pages
...mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go ; eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as...it -were, in such weight, measure, and number, even unto the perfection of the making of the world, or else I am sharply taunted and cruelly threatened,... | |
 | Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen Owen - 1854 - 426 pages
...of London.] " When I am in the presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keeg silence, sit, stand, or go ; eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even unto the... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing any thing else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure,...even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I ain so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, y«<i presently sometimes, with pinches, nips, and bobs,... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1856 - 442 pages
...or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merie, be sad, be only playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do...were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfitlie as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presentlie... | |
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