 | Robert Southey - England - 1808 - 274 pages
...original may prove the truth of the translation, which might else not unreasonably be suspected. ' Having now had my horse for some time, and riding...were not fit to ride in I hope the reader will excuse nty mentioning the word breeches which I should have avoided, had not this passage of scripture obtruded... | |
 | Robert Southey - Authors, English - 1808 - 410 pages
....prove the truth of the translation, which might else- not tfnreasorabfr be suspected. " Having ROW bad my horse for some time, and riding a great deal every...not fit to ride in. I hope the reader will excuse mj mentioning the word breeches, which I should have avoided, had not ihii passage of scripture obtruded... | |
 | Robert Southey - Authors, English - 1808 - 414 pages
...original may prove the truth of the translation, which might else not unreasonably be suspected. ' " Having now had my horse for some time, and riding a great deal every week, I soon wore my Irefches out, as they wer? pot fit to ride in. I hope the reader will excuse my mentioning the word... | |
 | Robert Southey - Authors, English - 1808 - 392 pages
...original may prove the truth of the translation, which might else not unreasonably be suspected. " Having now had my horse for some time, and riding a great deal every weelfi I soon wore my lreeches out, as they were not' fit to ride in. I hope the reader will excuse... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 602 pages
...so pithy, that, to use the words of Fuller the Worthy, all compendium would be dispendium thereof. ' Having now had my horse for some time, and riding...will excuse my mentioning the word breeches, which T should have avoided, had not this passage of scripture obtruded into my mind, just as I had resolved... | |
 | 1821 - 598 pages
...so pithy, that, to use the words of Fuller the Worthy, all compendium would be dispendium thereof. ' Having now had my horse for some time, and riding...wore my breeches out, as they were not fit to ride ill. I hope the reader will excuse my mentioning the word breeches, which which I should have avoided,... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 602 pages
...so pithy, that, to use the words of Fuller the Worthy, all compendium would be dispendium thereof. ' Having now had my horse for some time, and riding a great deal every week, 1 soon wore my breeches out, as they were not fit to ride in. I hope the reader will excuse my mentioning... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1825 - 342 pages
...when his prayers would be heard. As a specimen, take a story which is annexed in his own words. — "Having now had my horse " for some time, and riding a great deal every " week, I soon wore my breecnes out, as they " were not fit to ride in. I hope the reader will " excuse my mentioning the... | |
 | George Crabbe - Poets, English - 1834 - 338 pages
...bank-note put into the hand of my faith, which, when I got poor, I pleaded before God, and he answered it. Having now had my horse for some time, and riding...great deal every week, I soon wore my breeches out, so that they were not fit to ride in. I hope the reader will excuse my mentioning the word breeches,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 332 pages
...some time, and riding » great deal every week, I soon wore my breeches out, so that they were sot fit to ride in. I hope the reader will excuse my mentioning the word 'ireeches, which I should have avoided, had not this passage of scripture ibtruded into my mind, just... | |
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I hope the reader will excuse nty mentioning the word breeches which I should have avoided, had not this passage of scripture obtruded into my mind just as I had resolved in my own thoughts not to mention this kind providence, of God. 
