 | Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...the potatoes of their little garden before they were half grown, while one of his hungry children, in a spirit worthy of his father, is heard expressing...his thanks that this much had been spared to them." Indeed, the full account of the hardships endured by himself and family during that year, when he had... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1859 - 758 pages
...the potatoes of their little garden before they were half grown, while one of his hungry children, in a spirit worthy of his father, is heard expressing...this much had been spared to them. We often find him incarcerated in the debtor's prison, but even amid its gloom his visions of the future never grew dim,... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Patents - 1859 - 718 pages
...the potatoes of their little garden before they were half grown, while one of his hungry children, in a spirit worthy of his father, is heard expressing...this much had been spared to them. We often find him incarcerated in the debtor's prison, but even amid its gloom his visions of the future never grew dim,... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - House document (United States. Congress. House) - 1859 - 706 pages
...the potatoes of their little garden before they were half grown, while one of his hungry children, in a spirit worthy of his father, is heard expressing...this much had been spared to them. We often find him incarcerated in the debtor's prison, but even amid its gloom his visions of the future never grew dim,... | |
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... winter of 1839 but for the kind offices of a few charitable friends. They are represented as gathering sticks in the woods and on the edges of the highways with which to cook their meals, and digging the potatoes of their little garden before they... 