 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1830 - 452 pages
...explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go on; and, that I might make fair copies in the day time of what I had done in the night, he often worked for...always have a respect for the memory of that man." Having been employed by his master to carry a message to Mr. Gilchrist, the minister of Keith, he took... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...marked the stars thereon by the beads." " My master," he adds, " at first laughed at me; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go on ; and, that I might make fair copies in the day time of what I had done in the night, he often worked for me himself. I shall always have a respect... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...marked the stars thereon by the beads." " |VIy master," he adds, "at first laughed at me; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go on; and, that I might make fair copies in the day time of what I had done in the night, he often worked for me himself. I shall always have a respect... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1834 - 450 pages
...marked the stars thereon by the beads." " My master," he adds, " at first laughed at me ; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go...always have a respect for the memory of that man." Having been employed by his master to carry a message to Mr. Gilchrist, the minister of Keith, he took... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...marked the stars thereon by the beads." " My master," he adds, " at first laughed at me ; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go on'; and, that I might make fair copies in the day time of what I had done in the night, he often worked for me himself. I shall always have a respect... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...marked the stars thereon by the beads." " My master," he adds, " at first laughed at me ; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go on; and, that I might make fair copies in the day time of what I had done in the night, he often worked for me himself. I shall always have a respect... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...apparent distances of the fixed stars. " My master," he says, " at first laughed at me ; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go...done in the night, he often worked for me himself." His talents soon became known to the gentlemen in the neighbourhood ; one of whom, Mr. Grant, of Achoynamey,... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...a blanket about me, and lie on my back to observe the stare, he at first laughed at me, but, when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go...that I might make fair copies in the day-time of what 1 had done in the night, he often worked for me himself, taking the threshing-flail out of my hand,... | |
 | 1835 - 444 pages
...to their respective positions, having a candle by me. My master at first laughed at me, but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go on; and that I might make fair copies in the day time of what I had done in the night, he often worked for me himself. I shall always have respect... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...to their respective positions, having a candle by me. My master at first laughed at me, but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go...man. One day he happened to send me with a message to the Rev. Mr John Gilchrist, minister at Keith, to whom I had been known from my childhood. I carried... | |
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at first laughed at me, but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go on ; and, that I might make fair copies in the daytime of what I had done in the night, he often worked for me himself. I shall always have a respect for the memory... 
