 I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending...  Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Page 4271857Full view - About this book
 | Children - 1888 - 248 pages
...managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbors' clocks and watches at nights, after my daily labor was done, and thus I procured the means of educating my son." 11. In 1810 an opportunity occurred for George Stephenson signalizing himself. A badly constructed... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Locomotives - 1889 - 472 pages
...how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours' clocks and watches at nights, after my daily labour was done, and thus I procured the means of educating my sou." t Besides mending clocks and watches at this time, he also continued to make and mend shoes,... | |
 | George Walter Macgeorge - India - 1894 - 602 pages
...school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man ; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours' clocks and...and thus I procured the means of educating my son. He tecame my assistant and my companion. He got an appointment as under reviewer, and at night we worked... | |
 | George Walter Macgeorge - India - 1894 - 616 pages
...school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man ; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours' clocks and...and thus I procured the means of educating my son. He became my assistant and my companion. He got an appointment as under reviewer, and at night we worked... | |
 | Samuel Reynolds Hole - England - 1901 - 368 pages
...school and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man, and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours' clocks and...and thus I procured the means of educating my son." With all his heart and to the end of his days that son appreciated the self-denial of his father's... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1904 - 536 pages
...how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours' clocks and watches at nights, after my daily labour was done, and thus I procured the means of educating my son." * Carrying out the resolution as to his boy's education, Robert was sent to Mr. Bruce's school in Percy... | |
 | Frank Puterbaugh Bachman - Inventions - 1918 - 284 pages
...Stephenson long afterwards, "to mending my neighbors' clocks and watches at night, after my daily labor was done, and thus I procured the means of educating my son." Robert went to and from Newcastle on a donkey. But it was not only Robert who was at school at Newcastle,... | |
 | John R. Raynes - Railroads - 1921 - 372 pages
...however, a poor man," he afterwards said, and in order to educate his son, " How do you think I did ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours' clocks and watches at night after my day's work was done, and thus I got the means of bringing up my son." He had seen a locomotive at Wylam,... | |
 | Lawrence Fraser Abbott - Biography - 1927 - 326 pages
...how do you think I managed? I betook myself to mending my neighbours' clocks and watches at nights, after my daily labour was done, and thus I procured the means of educating my son. In accordance with the definite design of Stephenson, the son contributed to the father's education... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Transportation - 2001 - 240 pages
...how do you think I managed? I betook myself to mending my neighbours' clocks and watches at nights, after my daily labour was done, and thus I procured the means of educating my son." When he was appointed enginewright of the colliery, he was of course still easier in his circumstances... | |
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