 | George Seton - 1870 - 280 pages
...answer for three weeks ; and you know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was, that, when the wind served, I happened to be...with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing everything curious, and you... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1870 - 644 pages
...mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was, that, when HOSPITABLE FRIEND. 47 the wind served, I happened to be with a party in...with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing everything curious, and you... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
...for that country, but being oS with a festive party in the country when the wind proved favorable, " the captain never inquired after me, but set sail...with as much indifference as if I had been on board." The generous steed with which he set out had been sold, the money the animal brought had been spent,... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...answer for three weeks; and you know^ mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was that when the wind served I happened to be with...with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing everything curious, and you... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 272 pages
...answer for three weeks ; and you know, mother, that 1 could not command the elements. My misfortune was. that, when the wind served, I happened to be...with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing everything curious, and yon... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1878 - 522 pages
...(«) ' The understanding was then, as it were, the soul's upper region.'— SOUTH. ' My misfortune was that, when the wind served, I happened to be with a party in the country.' — GOLDSMITH. (/) ' We are, on the whole, inclined to think, though we would speak with diffidence... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 952 pages
...answer for three weeks ; and you know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was, that, when the wind served, I happened to be...with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing every thing curious, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 966 pages
...answer for three weeks ; and you . know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was, that, when the wind served, I happened to be...-with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing every thing curious, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 714 pages
...know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was, that, when the wind served, 1 happened to be with a party in the country, and my...but set sail with as much indifference as if I had baen on board." The remainder of my time f employed in the cily and its environs, viewing everything... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 pages
...answer for three weeks ; and you know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was that when the wind served I happened to be with...with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing everything curious ; and... | |
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... passage in a ship bound for America, and, at the same time, paid the captain for my freight and all the other expenses of my voyage. But it so happened that the wind did not answer for three weeks ; and you know, mother, that I could not command the... 
