 | 1819 - 610 pages
...and keeping his farm in order, it was impossible. In fact, he declared it was no use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; every thing about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in epite of him. His fences were continually... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 476 pages
...all kinds of profitable labour,' « thinking it no use to work upon his own farm because every thing about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him,' yet always ready to help his neighbours— • the foremost at husking frolics, and building stone... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; every thing about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; every thing about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; every thing about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually... | |
 | 1819 - 606 pages
...and keeping his farm in order, it was impossible. In fact, he declared it was no use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; every thing about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually... | |
 | 1826 - 654 pages
...keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country; every thing about it went wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces ; his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 pages
...keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; every thing about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 pages
...keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; every thing about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; every thing about it went wrong , and would go wrong, in spite...the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his lields than any where else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door... | |
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... and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible. In fact,... 
