 ... 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...  The Wesleyan juvenile offering - Page 46by Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1849Full view - About this book
 | English spelling book - 1859 - 264 pages
...up for life in this dark closet, and wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do." "Why," said the dial, "is there not a window in your house...look through ?' "For all that," resumed the pendulum, " although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look out. Besides, I am really... | |
 | Elementary books - 1860 - 270 pages
...to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards uid forwards year after year as I do." "As to that," said the dial, "is there not a 'window in your house for you to look through ?" " For all that," resumed the pendulum, " it is very dark here; and although... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 232 pages
...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do ! " " As to that," said the Dial, " is there not a window in your house on purpose for you tp look through ? " " But what," resumed the Pendulum, " although there is a window, I dare not stop,... | |
 | George Watson (publisher.) - 1864 - 238 pages
...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do!" " As to that," said the Dial, " is there not...in your house on purpose for you to look through? " " But what," resumed the Pendulum, " although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant,... | |
 | 1864 - 422 pages
...this dark closet, and wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do." — "Why," said the E 2 dial, " is there not a window in your house on purpose...through ?" " For all that," resumed the pendulum, "although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look out. Besides, I am really... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1864 - 400 pages
...forwards, year after year, as I do." "As to that," said the dial, ''¡r there not a window in your house и purpose for you to look through¡ " For all that," resumed the pendulum, " it is very dark here : aed although there is a window, I dan not stop, even for an instant, to Ы out. Besides, I am really... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards and forwards year af*/?r year, as I do." " As to that," said the dial, " is there not a window in your house, for you to look through? " " For all that," resumed the pendulum, " it is very dark here; and, although... | |
 | Present - 1865 - 548 pages
...like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and swing backwards and forwards year after year as I do." " As to that," said the dial, " is there not...here ; and although there is a window, I dare not as you all know, stop even for an instant to look out ; besides, I am really weary of my way of life... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1865 - 276 pages
...shut up for life in this dark closet, and wag5 backward and forward, year after year, as I do." 5. "As to that," said the dial, "is there not a window in your house on purpose for you to k>ok through?" "For all that," resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here ; and, although there is... | |
 | T. B. S. - Religious literature, English - 1866 - 312 pages
...for life in this dark closet, and wag backwards and forwards, year after year, as I do." — " Why," said the dial, " is there not a window in your house...through ? " " For all that," resumed the pendulum, " although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look out. Besides, I am really... | |
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