 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...I 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...often ,worked for me himself. I shall always have respect for the memory of that man." Having been employed by his master to carry a message to Mr. Gilchrist,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Biography - 1865 - 590 pages
...I 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...that I might make fair copies in the daytime of what 1 had done in the night, he often worked for me himself. I shall always have respect for the memory... | |
 | Samuel Neale - 1795 - 550 pages
...such as to entitle him to special mention. "At first he laughed at me," says Ferguson, "but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go...done in the night, he often worked for me himself." He adds, " I will always have respect for the memory of that man." On one occasion he was despatched... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Ability - 1867 - 258 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." The Boy makes the Man, and Ferguson in later years continued the same habits of sedulous study, untiring... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1867 - 534 pages
...to their respective positions, having a candle by me.i4 My master at first langhed at me, but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go on ; and that I might make fair " Considerin4that it would be interesting, if it could be ascertained, as to whether or not Mr. Glaslmn... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 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...always have a respect for the memory of that man. ' I soon after was introduced by a schoolmaster whom I knew to a Mr Cantley, an ingenious man, who... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Men - 1869 - 324 pages
...on the paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads. My master 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... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - Literature - 1869 - 610 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...always have a respect for the memory of that man. " I soon after was introduced by a schoolmaster, whom I knew, to a Mr. Cantley, an ingenious man, who... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1870 - 550 pages
...to their respective positions, having a candle by me.14 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 " Considerin.; tliat it wuiilil be interesting, if it could be ascertained, as towhether or not Mr.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 276 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...always have a respect for the memory of that man. ' I soon after was introduced by a schoolmaster whom I knew to a Mr Cantley, an ingenious man, who... | |
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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... 
