I was disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood... Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 542avtor: James Boswell - 1917 - 574 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1921 - 848 strani
...disobedient ; I refused to attend my father to Vttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penauce was expiatory."* Uttoxeter town has altered considerably since Johnson knew it, and no longer... | |
| 1859 - 866 strani
...White, he stated' that he had been disobedient to his father, and that ne felt pride to be the cause. " A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault....contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." In his last year he surprised not a little Mr. Henderson, by acknowledging, with a look of horror,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 1106 strani
...disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault.'" — But by what method? — What method was now possible ? Hear it ; the words are again given as his... | |
| James Boswell - 1851 - 322 strani
...my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and UTTOXETER MARKET-PLACE. lie remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone or this fault ; I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a the corporation of Lichfield,... | |
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