 | Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel - 1870 - 244 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...should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would cany a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, or up hill... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 σελίδες
...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...not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 σελίδες
...thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit...not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 σελίδες
...Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be for u surely understand me, don't you? When one's life...continued, holding her Ьл-ad high with restrained exci a fowlingpiece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 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;...not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 σελίδες
...in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not he from the want of assiduity or perseverance, for he...Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, oven though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowlingpiece on his shoulder,... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 σελίδες
...Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion3 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, with a rod as long and as heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 510 σελίδες
...would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could...not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1878 - 152 σελίδες
...bark at him throughout the neighborhood. en The great error in Eip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could...day without a murmur, even though he should not be en- 66 couraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together,... | |
 | Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 186 σελίδες
...would bark at him throughout the neighborhood. The great error in Rip's composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could...sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's1 lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single... | |
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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. 
