 | Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - Unitarianism - 1828 - 332 pages
...days of your life but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen! Think, I beseech you, how you would...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards year after year, as I do." "As to that," said the dial, "is there not... | |
 | 1823 - 450 pages
...days of your life but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen ! Think, I beseech you, how you...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do." — " As to that," said the dial, " is there... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...days of your life, but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen ! Think, I beseech you, how you...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards year after year, as I do." " As to that," said the dial, " is there not... | |
 | 1824 - 602 pages
...in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen ' Think, I beĢeech you, how you would like to be shut up for life in...do." ' " As to that," said the dial, " is there not a window in your house on purpose for you to look through ?" ' " For all that,'' resumed the pendulum,... | |
 | Theology - 1824 - 314 pages
...days of your life but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen ! Think, I beseech you, how you...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards year after year, as I do." "As to that," said the dial, "is there not... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1824 - 624 pages
...days of your life but to stare people in the face, and to amuse younelf with watching all that goes on in the kitchen ! Think, I beseech you, how you would like to be shut up for life in tins' dark closet, and wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do." ' " As to that," said... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...days of your life but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes cial, bought and kept for that purpose ; as also ribbans,...jewels, and, for the better garnishing whereof, th to wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do." — " As to that," said the dial, " is there... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...days of your life but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen ! Think, I beseech you, how you...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards, year after year, and do." — " As to that," said the di?l, ' Is there... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen 1 Think, I beseech you, how you would like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards, year after year, and do." — " As to that,' said the dial, *• Is... | |
 | Etiquette - 1826 - 320 pages
...days of your life but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen ! Think, I beseech you, how you would like to be shut for life in this dark closet, and wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do." " As to that,"... | |
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is there not a window in your house on purpose for you to look through?" " For all that," resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here: and although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look out. 
