I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in shorthand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that will... Taylor's System of Stenography, Or Shorthand Writing - Page 28by Samuel Taylor, John Henry Cooke - 1832 - 60 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1880 - 632 pages
...which cannot be much, now my amours are past, and my eyes hindering me in almost all other pleasures, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me.' It must be remembered that at this time he was only thirtysix. The Diary is in such detail, that though... | |
| England - 1854 - 758 pages
...avail him longer for his secret ciphering, and it is with a great pang that he yields to the necessity, which is " almost as much as to see myself go into my grave," he says, disconsolately, and so conclndes a chronicle which has no equal — the clearest picture ever... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1825 - 634 pages
...shortLand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost аз much as to sec myself go into my grave ; for which and all the discomforts...will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare Framlingham, SIR, Decemher 14, 1825. IT is matter of congratulation to the Unitarian public that the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1826 - 624 pages
...forward to have it kept by my people in long-hand, and must be contented to set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know ; or if there be...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me !' — vol. ii. p. 347From this touching passage, as indeed from the whole tenor of the diary, it is... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1826 - 488 pages
...thing, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short- hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! Astronomical Occurrences In MAY 1826. The smiling hours, the lamp of Lucifer Dimpling the western... | |
| 1826 - 626 pages
...keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so 1 betake myself to that course, which is almost as much...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me !'— vol. ii. p. 347. From this touching passage, as indeed from the whole tenor of the diary, it... | |
| Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1828 - 486 pages
...forward to have it kept by my people in long-hand, and must be contented to set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know ; or if there be...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! May 3 1,1669. SP END OF THE DIARY. GENERAL INDEX TO THE DIARY. Abbot, George, Archbishop of Canterbury,... | |
| Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1848 - 418 pages
...I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in shorthand tvith my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! " — Vol. ii. p. 347. From this touching passage, as indeed from the whole tenor of the diary, it... | |
| Walter Scott - English literature - 1835 - 584 pages
...forward to Jiave it kept by my people in long-hand, and must be contented to set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know ; or if there be...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! " — Vol. ii. p. 347. From this touching passage, as indeed from the whole tenor of the diary, it... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - France - 1835 - 402 pages
...forward to have it kept by my people in long-hand, and must be contented to set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know ; or if there be...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! " — Vol. ii. p. 347. From this touching passage, as indeed from the whole tenor of the diary, it... | |
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