 On lifting up his desk, we found arranged in careful order a series of little objects, which had obviously been so placed there that his eye might rest on them every morning before he began his tasks.  Kind Words for His Young Friends - Page 24by William (uncle, pseud.) - 1842Full view - About this book
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 380 pages
...executors, when they opened his repositories in search of his testament, the evening after his burial. On lifting up his desk, we found arranged in careful order a series of little objects, which had obviously been so placed there that his eye might rest on them every morning before he began his tasks.... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 384 pages
...executors, when they opened his repositories in search of his testament, the evening after his burial. On lifting up his desk, we found arranged in careful order a series of little objects, which had obviously been so placed there that his eye might rest on them every morning before he began his tasks.... | |
 | 1843
...executors, when they opened his repositories in search of 1m testament, the evening after his burial. " On lifting up his desk, we found arranged in careful...previously been so placed there that his eye might rest ou them every morning before he began bis tasks. These were the old-fashioned boxes that had garnished... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pages
...executors, when they opened his repositories in search of his testament, the evening after his burial. On lifting up his desk, we found arranged in careful order a series of little objects, which had obviously been so placed there that his eye might rest on them every morning before he began his tasks.... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1855 - 1198 pages
...BISHOP'S FAMILY.— No. IV. IT is said of Sir "Walter Scott, by his son-in-law, who wrote his memoir, " On lifting up his desk we found arranged, in careful order, a series of little objects whici had previously been so placed there that his eye might rest on them every morning before he began... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - Country life - 1849 - 256 pages
...famous than Wordsworth has given the same testimony : it is of Walter Scott that the writer speaks: " On lifting up his desk, we found arranged in careful order a series of little objects, so placed that his eye might rest on them every morning before he began his tasks. There were the old-fashioned... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...when they opened his repositories in search of his testament, the evening after his burial. On liAing up his desk, we found arranged in careful order a series of little objects, which had obviously been so placed there that his eye might rest on them every morning before he began his tasks.... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 pages
...famous than Wordsworth has given the same testimony : it is of Walter Scott that the writer speaks : " On lifting up his desk, we found arranged in careful order a scries of little objects, so placed that his eye might rest on them every morning before he began his... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1864 - 362 pages
...famous than Wordsworth has given the same testimony : it is of Walter Scott that the writer speaks : " On lifting up his desk, we found arranged in careful order a series of little objects, so placed that his eye might rest on them every morning before he began his tasks. There were the oldfashioned... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1873 - 1014 pages
...his desk, we found arranged in careful order a series of little objects, which had obviously been to placed there that his eye might rest on them every morning before he began his tasks. These were the old fashioned boxes that had garnished his mother's toilette, when he, a sickly child, slept in her... | |
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