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" I begged of him to show me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 252
1883
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Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics ..., Volume 1

James Ferguson - Eclipses - 1823 - 406 pages
...and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to shew me the inside of his watch : and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that...
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Autobiography: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 6

Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to show me the inside of his watch : and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn...
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].

George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to shew me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring box, with part of the chain round it ; and asked him what it was that made the box...
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The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - Education - 1830 - 452 pages
...and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to shew me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring box, with part of the chain round it ; and asked him what it was that made the box...
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Journal of a Voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia

George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to show me the inside of his watch : and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn...
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].

George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...and told me. As. he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to shew me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and pui it into my hands. I saw the spring box, with pan of the chain round it ; and asked him what it...
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Biography of Self Taught Men

Bela Bates Edwards - Biography - 1832 - 336 pages
...o'clock it then was ? He looked at his watch and told me. As he did that with so much good nature, I begged of him to show me the inside of the watch...immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring box, with part of the chain round it ; and asked him what it was that made the box...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 3; Volume 14

Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...and told me. As he did that with so much good nature, I begged of him to show me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring box, with part of the chain round it ; and asked him what4t was that made the box...
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The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 3

1833 - 444 pages
...me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to show me the inside of his watcli ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the "watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring box, with part of the chain round it ; and asked him what it was that made the box...
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Exemplary and Instructive Biography: For the Study of Youth

Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...and told me. As he did that with so much good nature, I begged of him to show me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the •j'atch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked...
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