 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...prospects. He spoke of his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling — as an event likely to happen very...leaving his four children so young and unprotected, ed, and his wife in so interesting a situation — • in hourly expectation of lying in of a fifth.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...prospects. He spoke of his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling — as an event likely to happen very...interesting a situation — in hourly expectation of lying-in of a fifth. He mentioned, with seeming pride and satisfaction, the promising genius of his... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...of his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling—as an event likely to happen very soon, and which gave...and unprotected, and his wife in so interesting a situation—in hourly expectation of lying-in of a fifth. He mentioned, with seeming pride and satisfaction,... | |
 | Society of ancient Scots - 1821 - 226 pages
...condition. He spoke of his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling — as an event likely to happen very soon, and which gave him concern, chiefly on account of the young and unprotected family which he must leave behind him. He expressed, at the... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821 - 414 pages
...condition. He spoke of his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling — as an event likely to happen very soon, and which gave him concern, chiefly on account of the young and unprotected family which he must leave behind him. He expressed, at the... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 414 pages
...condition.. He spoke of his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling — as an event likely to happen very soon, and which gave him concern, chiefly on account of the young and unprotected family which he must leave behind him. He expressed, at the... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...of his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling—as an event likely to happen very soon, and which gave...and unprotected, and his wife in so interesting a situation—in hourly expectation of lying-in of a fifth. He mentioned, with seeming pride and satisfaction,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 pages
...prospects. He spoke of his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling — as an event likely to happen very...interesting a situation — in hourly expectation of lying.in of a fifth. He mentioned, with seeming pride and satisfaction, the promising genius of his... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...young and unprotected, and his wife in so interesting a situation — in hourly expectation of lying-in of a fifth. He mentioned, with seeming pride and satisfaction,...the flattering marks of approbation he had received fromhis teachers, and dwelt particularly on his hopes of that boy's future conduct and merit. His anxiety... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 pages
...prospects. He spoke of 'his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling, as an event likely to happen very...; and which gave him concern chiefly from leaving hia four children so young and unprotected, and his wife in so interesting a situation — in hourly... | |
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He spoke of his death without any of the ostentation of philosophy, but with firmness as well as feeling, as an event likely to happen very soon ; and which gave him concern chiefly from leaving his four children so young and unprotected, and his wife... 
