Come, go to, I will be wise!" I read farming books; I calculated crops; I attended markets; and, in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man; but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad... Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 385edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
| Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...farming " books, I calculated crops ; I attended markets ; " and in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, " and the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man ; Rob the Rhymer's Welcome to his Bastard Child. " man ; but the first year, from unfortunately " buying... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...farming books ; I calculated crops; I attended markets; and, in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have been...crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.* • " I now began... | |
| Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...read farming books ; I calculated crops; I attended nirkets ; and in short, in spite of the devil, the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have been...from unfortunately buying bad seed, the second from a laie harvest, we lost haif our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and 1 returned, like the dog to his... | |
| Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...farming books, I calculated crops ; I attended markets ; and in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have been...crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, like the dog to hh * Rob the Rhymer'* Welcome to his Bastard Child. See Poems, p. 81(5. *4. O rtmit, and... | |
| Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 pages
...calculated crops; I attended markets; and, in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and thejlesk, I believe I should have been a wise man ; but the...crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, like t7ic dog to Ms vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire*. - ' " I now began... | |
| 1819 - 364 pages
...farming books ; I calculated crops ; I attended markets ; aud, in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and the flesh, I believe' I should have been...lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and 1 returned, like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that wot washed, to her wallowing in the mire. I... | |
| Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 pages
...attended markets ; and, in short, in spite of the devil, a/id the world, and the flesh, I believe 1 should have been a wise man ; but the first year,...lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and 1 returned, lihe the dog to his vomit, and the sow that teas washed, to her wallowing in the mire.... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1820 - 484 pages
...farming books, I calculated crops ; I attended markets ; and in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have been...lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and J returned, like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire* "... | |
| 1824 - 312 pages
...farming books, I alculated crops ; I attended may> Dd kets, and in short, in spite of the devil, the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have been...crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned to my old habits. " I now began to be known in the neighbourhood as a maker of rhymes. The first of... | |
| Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pages
...farming books; I calculated crops ; I attended markets; and, in short, in spite of ' the devil, and the world, and the flesh,' I believe I should have been...This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, ' like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.' " I now began to... | |
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