 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1810 - 348 pages
...curtain: the severity of the master was too well known for the criminal to expect any pardon for sucli a fault ; so that the boy, who was of a meek temper, was terrified to death at the thoughts of his appearance ; when his friend who sat next to him, bade him be of good cheer, for that... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...youth happened, by some mischance, to tear the above-mentioned curtain. The severity of the master was too well known for the criminal to expect any pardon for such a fault ; so that tiie boy, who was of a meek temper, was terrified to death at the thoughts of his appearance ; when... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...curtain ; the severity of the master was too « well known for the criminal to expect any « pardon foi such a fault; so that the boy , « who was of a meek temper, was terrified « to death at the thoughts of his appearance, « when his friend, who sat next to him, bade « him be of good cheer ,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...youth happened, by some mischance, to tear the above-mentioned curtain. The severity of the master* was too well known for the criminal to expect any...was of a meek temper, was terrified to death at the thoughts of his appearance, when his friend who sat next to him bade him be of good cheer, for that... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...youth happened, by some mischance, to tear the above-mentioned curtain. The severity of the master* was too well known for the criminal to expect any...was of a meek temper, was terrified to death at the thoughts of his appearance, when his friend who sat next to him bade him be of good cheer, for that... | |
 | G. Hamonière - 1819 - 388 pages
...basse. II arriva un jour, par malheur, qu'un étudiant déchira ce curtaiu. The severity of the master was too well known for the criminal to expect any...pardon for such a fault ; so that the boy, who was of a moek temper, was terrified to death at the thoughts of his appearance, when his friend who sat next... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...youth happened, by some mischance, to tear the above-mentioned curtain. The severity of the master* was too well known for the criminal to expect any...was of a meek temper, was terrified to death at the thoughts of his appearance ; when his friend who sat next to him bade him be of good cheer, for that... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...youth happened, by some mischance to tear the above-mentioned curtain. The severity of the master* was too well known for the criminal to expect any...was of a meek temper, was terrified to death at the thoughts of his appearance, when his friend who sat next to him bade him be of good cheer, for that... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...curtain. The severity of the master* was too well known for the criminal to expect any pardon 'fbr such 'a fault ; so that the boy, who was of a meek temper, was terrified to death -at the thoughts of his- appearance, when his friend, who sat next to him, bade him be of good cheer, for that... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...A youth happened, by some mischance, to tear the abovementioned curtain; the severity of the master was too well known for the criminal to expect any...was of a meek temper, was terrified to death at the thoughts of his appearance; when his friend, who sat next to him, bid him be of good cheer, for that... | |
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... him bade him be of good cheer, for that he would take the fault on himself. He kept his word accordingly. As soon as they were grown up to be men, the civil war broke out, in which our two friends took... 
