 | British essayists - 1802 - 216 pages
...pictures, ragged books, and worm-eateu parchments. Our house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep in order, it would be now equally vain to attempt cleaning as the ark of Noah. The children'* bed is supplied by an Indian canoe ; and the poor little creatures sleep three of them in... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...pictures, ragged books, and wormeaten parchments. Our house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep in order, it would be now equally vain to...cleaning as the ark of Noah. The children's bed is supplied by an Indian canoe ; and the poor little creatures sleep three of them in a hammock, slung... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 336 pages
...pictures, ragged books, and worm-eaten parchments. Our house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep in order, it would be now equally vain to...cleaning as the ark of Noah. The children's bed is supplied by an Indian canoe; and the poor little creatures sleep three of them in a hammock, slung... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 448 pages
...pictures, ragged books, and worm-eaten parchments. Our house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep in order, it would be now equally vain to...cleaning as the ark of Noah. The children's bed is supplied by an Indian canoe \ and the poor little creatures sleep three of them in a hammock, slung... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1815 - 302 pages
...pictures, ragged books, and wormeaten parchments. Our house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep in order, it would be now equally vain to...cleaning as the ark of Noah. The children's bed is supplied by an Indian canoe; and the poor little creatures sleep three of them in a hammock, slung... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 328 pages
...pictures, ragged books, and worm-eaten parchments. - Our house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep in order, it would be now equally vain to...cleaning as the ark of Noah. The children's bed is supplied by an Indian canoe ; and the poor little creatures sleep three of them in a hammock, slung... | |
 | 1822 - 326 pages
...pictures, ragged books, and worm-eaten parchments. Our house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep in order, it would be now equally vain to...cleaning as the ark of Noah. The children's bed is supplied by an Indian canoe; and the poor little creatures sleep three of them in a hammock, slung... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 690 pages
...pictures, ragged books, and worm-eaten parch, ments. ' Our house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep in order, it would be now equally vain to...cleaning as the ark of Noah. The children's bed is supplied by an Indian canoe; and the poor little creatures sleep three of them in a hammock, slung... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 334 pages
...pictures, ragged books, and worm-eaten parch, meats. ' Our house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep in order, it would be now equally vain to...cleaning as the ark of Noah. The children's bed is supplied by an Indian canoe,- and the poor little creatures sleep three of them in a hammock, slung... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...pictures, ragged books, and wormeaten parchments. " Our, house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep in order, it would be now equally vain to...cleaning as the ark of Noah. The children's bed is supplied by an Indian canoe : and the poor little creatures sleep three of them in a hammock, slung... | |
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Our house, which it was once my highest pleasure to keep in order, it would be now equally vain to - attempt cleaning as the ark of Noah. The children's bed is supplied by an Indian canoe ; and the poor little creatures sleep three of them in a hammock,... 
