 We had so few books," he records in the exquisite fragment of autobiography he has left us, " that to read them once or twice was nothing. We thought they were all to be got by heart." How touching the story, so well known, of the mighty struggle and...  Famous Americans of Recent Times - Сторінка 63автори: James Parton - 1867 - 473 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | William M. Thayer - 1895 - 200 стор.
...re-read so carefully that he could repeat the contents of many books. He said, " We had so few books that to read them once or twice was nothing ; we thought they were all to be got by heart." His conversation showed great familiarity with books, especially with English literature. Frequent... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1902 - 410 стор.
...sort of pamphlet. I took it, and very soon could repeat it, from beginning to end. We had so few books that to read them once or twice was nothing. We thought they were all to be got by heart. It so happened, that within the few months during which I was at the Exeter Academy, Mr. Thacher, now... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, Annie Bliss Chapman - 1903 - 408 стор.
...sort of pamphlet. I took it, and very soon could repeat it, from beginning to end. We had so few books that to read them once or twice was nothing. We thought they were all to be got by heart. It so happened, that within the few months during which I was at the Exeter Academy, Mr. Thacher, now... | |
 | Sister Mary Lambertine - 1903 - 318 стор.
...of pamphlet. I took it, and very soon I could repeat it from beginning to end. We had so few books that to read them once or twice was nothing. We thought they were all to be got by heart." At the age of fourteen, he was sent to Phillips Academy, in Exeter, New Hampshire, but remained only... | |
 | 1904 - 496 стор.
...sort of pamphlet. I took it, and very soon could repeat it from beginning to end. We had so few books, that to read them once or twice was nothing. We thought they were all to be got by heart." In 1796 Webster went to Exeter Academy, but poverty at home caused his withdrawal in February, 1797.... | |
 | George Washington - 1906 - 120 стор.
...sort of pamphlet. I took it, and very soon could repeat it from beginning to end. We had so few books, that to read them once or twice was nothing. We thought they were all to be got by heart." At the age of fourteen, he was sent to Phillips Academy, in Exeter, NH, but remained only nine months... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - 1914 - 446 стор.
...pamphlet. I took it, and very soon could repeat it, from the beginning to end. We had so few books that to read them once or twice was nothing. We thought they were all to be got by heart." 1 Even the arrival of the yearly almanac was an event, and upon one occasion it came near being attended... | |
 | 1915 - 316 стор.
...of pamphlet. I took it, and very soon I could repeat it from beginning to end. We had so few books that to read them once or twice was nothing. We thought they were all to be got by heart." At the age of fourteen he was sent to Phillips Academy, in Exeter, NH, but remained only nine months... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - 1916 - 230 стор.
...read, he read so often and so earnestly that he learned to repeat it. "We had so few books," he says, "that to read them once or twice was nothing; we thought they were all to be got by heart." A small circulating library had been established in the neighborhood by his father and other persons,... | |
 | James Parton - 1871 - 480 стор.
...children of this sturdy patriot and partisan, eight were ordinary mortals, and two most^xtraordinary, — Ezekiel, born in 1780, and Daniel, born in 1782, —...dollars a year ; but it seemed to the boy so vast and unat- • tainable a good, that, when his father announced his purpose to attempt it, he was completely... | |
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