 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...with the dismal days and nights he had passed there ; he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of...his head, and went on with his work of affliction." The foregoing observations may account, in part, for the effect which exhibitions of fictitious distress... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...passed there ; he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etehing another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened...his head, and went on with his work of affliction." The foregoing observations may account, in part, for the effect which exhibitions of fictitious distress... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...passed there ; he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etehing another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened...his head, and went on with his work of affliction." The foregoing observations may account, in part, for the effect which exhibitions of fictitious distress... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...dismal davs and nights he had passe there — he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with rusty nail he was etching another day of misery, to add to tiheap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1855 - 448 pages
...the dismal days and nights he had passed there : — he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and, with a rusty nail, he was etching another day...towards the door, then cast it down, — shook his head, anc went on with his work of affliction. I hearc his chains upon his legs, as he turned his boay to... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1859 - 508 pages
...nights he had passed there ; he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail, was etching another day of misery to add to the heap....his head, and went on with his work of affliction." Why pity is excited by fiction more than by reality. — The foregoing observations may account, in... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...with the dismal days and nights he had passed there. He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and, with a rusty nail, he was etching another day...to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, ho lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...with the dismal days and nights he had passed there—he had one of those little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of...lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down—shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs as... | |
 | Gems - English poetry - 1866 - 168 pages
...with the dismal days and nights he had passed there ; he had one of those little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of...head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard the chains upon his legs as he turned his body to lay the little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...with the dismal days and nights he had passed there: he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and, with a rusty nail, he was etching another day of misery to add to 66 JAMAICA. the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the... | |
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As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door — then cast it down — shook hjs head — and went on with his work of affliction. 
