 | Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - Počet stránok 132
...my natural disposition, and shifted me so fast from hand to hand that before I was five years old I had travelled into almost every corner of the nation....only relief we had was to be taken out and counted over in the fresh air every morning and evening. After an imprisonment of several years, we heard somebody... | |
 | Walter James Graham - 1928 - Počet stránok 440
...natural disposition, and shifted me so fast from hand to hand, that, before I was five years old, I had travelled into almost every corner of the nation....only relief we had, was to be taken out and counted over in the fresh air every morning and evening. After an imprisonment of several years, we heard somebody... | |
 | Mark Blackwell - 2007 - Počet stránok 378
...shilling represent possession by a miser in metaphors of incarceration. The shilling recounts how, "in the beginning of my sixth year, to my unspeakable...hundred more of my own quality who lay under the same confinement."31 The banknote describes the miser he encounters as "the most sordid, ill-tempered, envious... | |
 | William Murison - 1926 - Počet stránok 452
...natural disposition, and shifted me so fast from hand to hand, that before I was five years old, I had travelled into almost every corner of the nation....only relief we had was to be taken out and counted over in the fresh air every morning and evening. After an imprisonment of several years we heard somebody... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - Počet stránok 534
...natural disposition, and shifted me so fast from hand to hand, that before I was five years old, I had travelled into almost every corner of the nation....only relief we had, was to be taken out and counted over in the fresh air every morning and evening. After an imprisonment of several years, we heard somebody... | |
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But in the beginning of my sixth year, to my unspeakable grief, I fell into the hands of a miserable old fellow, who clapped me into an iron chest, where I found five hundred more of my own quality who lay under the same confinement. The only relief we... 
