| Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 sider
...was more wishful to spend an afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...amuses me when sated with the dull drudgery of life." TO MR. WM. BARTRAM. March 29, 1804. " Three months have passed away since I had the pleasure of seeing... | |
| 1819 - 304 sider
...the ^ hirds in this part of North America. Now, I don't wish you to throw cold water, as Shakespeare says, on this notion, Quixotic as it may appear ; I have been so long accustomed to the building of castles, and biain wind mills, that it has become one of my earthly comforts, a sort of rough bone... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1830 - 650 sider
...most earnestly bent on pursuing my plan of making a collection of all the birds in this part of plorth America. Now I don't want you to throw cold water,...rough bone, that amuses me when sated with the dull drudgeries of life." To Mr. B , " I send for your amusement a few attempts at our indigenous birds,... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - 1832 - 576 sider
...the birds in this part of North America. Now, I don't want you to throw cold water, as Shakespeare says, on this notion, Quixotic as it may appear. I...has become one of my earthly comforts, — a sort of rough bone, that amuses me when sated with the dull drudgery of life." No plan appears now to have... | |
| Alexander Wilson - 1844 - 558 sider
...was more wishful to spend an afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...has become one of my earthly comforts ; a sort of rough bone that amuse me when sated with the dull drudgeries of life. TO MR. WILLIAM BERTRAM. 1804.... | |
| John McGilchrist - 1860 - 406 sider
...1804, he thus writes to his friend Lawson : " In three weeks I shall have a few days' vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...has become one of my earthly comforts— a sort of rough bone, that amuses me when sated with the dull O drudgery of life." He was in love with the woods,... | |
| William Jardine - 1866 - 458 sider
...mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most earnestly bent on pursuing my plan of making1 a collection of all the birds in this part of North...has become one of my earthly comforts, — a sort of rough bone, that amuses me when sated with the dull drudgery of life." No plan appears, at this time,... | |
| Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1861 - 200 sider
...this notion, Quixotic as it may appear. I have been fo long accuftomed to the building of airy caftles and brain windmills, that it has become one of my earthly comforts — a sort of rough bone that amuses me when fated with the dull drudgery of life." It feems that this cautious friend... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 324 sider
...this notion, Quixotic as it may appear. I have been so long accustomed to the building of airy-castles and brain wind-mills, that it has become one of my earthly comforts — a sort of rough bone, that amuses me when sated with the dull drudgery of life." In the latter part of this year,... | |
| Alexander Wilson - 1876 - 408 sider
...was more wishful to spend an afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days' vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...amuses me when sated with the dull drudgery of life. t LETTEB XXXVI. Sympathy—' hurry of a crowded school '— ' attempts at some of our indigenous birds... | |
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