| William Cobbett - United States - 1818 - 628 pages
...but shoes and trowsers! My window looks to the East. The 1817. July 28. moment the Aurora appears, 1 am in the Orchard. It is impossible for any human...have no pity. 29. Still the same degree of heat. I measured a water-melon runner, which grew eighteen inches in the last 48 hours. The dews now are equal... | |
| William Cobbett - Agriculture - 1819 - 630 pages
...straw bed. And then, so happy to have no clothes to put on but shoes and trowsers! My 1817. July 28. window looks to the East. The moment the Aurora appears,...human being to lead a pleasanter life than this. How L pity those, who are compelled to endure the stench of cities ; but, for those who remain there without... | |
| William Cobbett - Agriculture - 1822 - 384 pages
...success to the Debt, and destruction to the Borough mongers, in gallons of milk and water. — Not more flies than in England. 28. Very, very hot. The Thermometer...am in the Orchard. It is impossible for any human b?ing to lead a pleasanter life than this. How I pity those, who are compelled to endure the stench... | |
| Sid Smith - Canada - 1850 - 304 pages
...better in all my life. No covering, — a sheet under me and a straw bed. The moment aurora 8"^pears I am in the orchard. It is impossible for any human being to live a pleasanter life than this. 1st August. Same weather; two shirts a day wringing wet. Twenty tumblers... | |
| Robert Waters - 1888 - 334 pages
...have no clothes to put on but shoes and trowsers ! [He hated to waste time even in dressing himself !] My window looks to the east. The moment the aurora...life than this. How I pity those who are compelled to endu-e the stench of cities ! I work on the land morning and evening, and write in a north room in... | |
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