 | 1855 - 724 pages
...spite of the advice and remonstrances of friends who predicted our death, in spite of an infant of six months old, who had never been out of the house,...the Archbishop, by issuing forth at midnight with a lanthorn to meet the last cart, with the cook and the cat, which had stuck in the mud, and fairly established... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...encumbering himself with a debt which it required time and all his economy to liquidate. He says : " I landed my family in my new house nine months after laying the first stone ; and performed my promise to the letter to the Archbishop, by issuing forth at midnight with a lantern,... | |
 | 1855 - 1428 pages
...spite of the advice and remonstrances of friends who predicted our death, in spite of an infant of six months old, who had never been out of the house,...March ; and performed my promise to the letter to tlie Archbishop, by issuing forth at midnight with a lanthorn to meet the last cart, with the cook... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...down with wet; in spite of the advice of friends, who predicted our death ; in spite of an infant of six months old, who had never been out of the house,...new house nine months after laying the first stone, and performed my promise to the letter to the Archbishop—a feat, taking ignorance, inexperience,... | |
 | Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland - 1855 - 488 pages
...spite of the advice and remonstrances of friends who predicted our death, in spite of an infant of six months old, who had never been out of the house, I landed my family in my new house nine mouths after laying the first stone, on the 20th of March ; and performed my promise to the letter... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1855 - 880 pages
...required buckets of sal volatile, and Haul and Crawl to lie down in tho mud. . . . In spite of obstacles, I landed my family in my new house nine months after laying the first stone, and issued forth at midnight with a lantern to meet the last cart with the cook and the cat, which... | |
 | Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland - 1855 - 530 pages
...spite of the advice and remonstrances of friends who predicted our death, in spite of an infant of six months old, who had never been out of the house, I lauded my family in my new house nine months after laying the first stone, on the 20th of March; and... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 482 pages
...spite of the advice and remonstrances of friends who predicted our death, in spite of an infant of six months old, who had never been out of the house,...first stone, on the 20th of March ; and performed met." — Cockburn's Life of Jeffrey, i. 168, where an account of the great reviewer's subsequent visit... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 502 pages
...of friends who predicted our death, in spite of an infant of six months old, who had never been oat of the house, I landed my family in my new house nine...first stone, on the 20th of March ; and performed met." — Cockbnrn's Life of Jeffrey, i. 168, where an account of the great reviewer's subsequent visit... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1865 - 478 pages
...spite of the advice and remonstrances of friends who predicted our death, in spite of an infant of six months old, who had never been out of the house,...the first stone, on the 20th of March; and performed met."— Cockburn's Life of Jeffrey, i. 168, where an account of tho great reviewer's subsequent visit... | |
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... advice of the farmer instead of the gentleman ; sold my oxen, bought a team of horses, and at last, in spite of a frost which delayed me six weeks, in spite of walls running down with wet, in spite of the advice and remonstrances of friends who predicted... 
