 | 1819 - 610 σελίδες
...thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighbourhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be for the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 σελίδες
...thousand tricks on him with impunity; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighbourhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 σελίδες
...thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighbourhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1823 - 392 σελίδες
...The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit t)na wet rock, .with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 σελίδες
...thousand tricks on him with impunity; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighbourhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock,... | |
 | 1826 - 654 σελίδες
...aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from want of assiduity or peiseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long...day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging... | |
 | 1819 - 606 σελίδες
...thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighbourhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be for the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 σελίδες
...thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighbourhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 σελίδες
...thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighbourhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 316 σελίδες
...on him with impunity ; and not n dog would bark at him throughout the neighbourhood. The great enror in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock,... | |
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It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. 
