 Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart; as well as to read it every syllable through, aloud, hard names and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a year...  The Literary World - Page 211878Full view - About this book
 | Conduct of life - 1871 - 784 pages
...his boyhood training : " My mother forced me, by steady, daily toil, to read every syllable through from Genesis to the Apocalypse about once a year ; and to that discipline I owe not only a knowledge of the bonk, which I find occasionally Berviceable, but much of my general... | |
 | Horace Lorenzo Hastings - 1882 - 254 pages
...with manifold advantages. Said the eminent John Ruskin : ' ' Jly mother forced me, by steady, dailv toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well as to read every syllable through from Genesis to the Apocalypse about once a year ; and to that discipline I... | |
 | William Smart - 1883 - 124 pages
...Scott and Pope's Homer FORS I., 10, a. were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible...that discipline — patient, accurate, and resolute — / owe, not only a knowledge of the book, which I find occasionally serviceable, but much of my... | |
 | Marshall Mather - Art - 1883 - 154 pages
...to it with expressions of deepest gratitude. He says :—" My mother forced me by steady, patient, daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by...and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once every year; and to that discipline,—patient, accurate, and resolute, I owe, not only a knowledge... | |
 | Rose Georgina Kingsley - 1884 - 150 pages
...but he loved nature and art too well to give himself to anything else. " She forced me," he says, " to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well...discipline, patient, accurate and resolute, I owe not only my knowledge of the book, but much of my general power of taking pains, and the best part of my taste... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1886 - 438 pages
...Progress. . . . Walter Scott and Pope's Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible...accurate, and resolute — I owe, not only a knowledge of that book, which I find occasionally serviceable, but much of my general power of taking pains, and... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1886 - 428 pages
...observe the best speakers ; and have much exercise of his own style." (ii) " My mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible...and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a-year : and to that discipline, — patient, accurate, and resolute, — I owe, not only a knowledge... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 266 pages
...observe the best speakers ; and have much exercise of his own style." (ii) " My mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible...and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a-year : and to that discipline, — patient, accurate, and resolute, — I owe, not only a knowledge... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 414 pages
...observe the best speakers ; and have much exercise of his own style." (ii) " My mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible...and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a-year : and to that discipline,—patient, accurate, and resolute,—I owe, not only a knowledge of... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 224 pages
...observe the best speakers ; and have much exercise of his own style." (U) " My mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible...and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a-year: and to that discipline, — patient, accurate, and resolute, — I owe, not only a knowledge... | |
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