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" I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave: for which, and all the discomforts that will... "
Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the Admiralty ... - Página 182
por Samuel Pepys - 1854
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...what money will do. 8639 Diary Home, and, being washing-day, dined upon cold meat. 8640 Diary (ad fin) hivago Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the...living thing can exist without it. 8557 Doctor Zhivago 8641 Diary (of Nell Gwynne) Pretty witty Nell. PERCIVAL Lloyd 8642 The physically fit can enjoy their...
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The Roots of Things: Topics in Quantum Mechanics

Alan A. Grometstein - 1999 - 620 páginas
...it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand And so I betake myself to that course which [is]...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me. [Diary, vol. IX] 5. Not necessarily: you can imagine the Si- and 52-bands lying so far apart that the...
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 9: 1668-1669

Samuel Pepys - 2000 - 608 páginas
...endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand with my own hand. 1 And so I betake myself to that course which [is] almost...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me. May. 31. 1669. SP° a 54 ruled pages and 3 unruled end-sheets are left blank. 1. He never kept any...
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The Anatomy of Bibliomania

Holbrook Jackson - 2001 - 676 páginas
...reading; little more than twelve months later his sight so fades that he has to close his beloved Diary: which is almost as much as to see myself go into my...will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!3 IV. OF BIBLIA A-BIBLIA I must here insert some few further words on preferences, for, as I have...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780

John Richetti - 2005 - 974 páginas
...announced the end of the enterprise. And so', he writes for the last time, in the coda's closing sentence, 'I betake myself to that course which [is] almost...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me' (Diary, vol. ix p. 565). But this cessation is itself equivocal, even procrastinatory. 'To see myself...
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Notes and Queries

1905 - 868 páginas
...indicates the manner in which the diary is to be continued, and concludes : " And so I betake myself 11 that course, which is almost as much as to see myself...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me." Of the new edition we can only say that its possession is one of the most covetable of gifts, furnishing...
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The Bookshelf: A Guide to Contemporary Literature, Volúmenes1-3

1906 - 490 páginas
...of the " Diary" and ends with the despairing cry nine years later over the threatening blindness, " which is almost as much as to see myself go into my...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! " Pepys, of course, did not go blind, but lived many long and useful years after he closed his "...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volumen30

1891 - 1082 páginas
...readers of the Diary know how much it was to its author from those pathetic words at its close : And BO I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see mvself go into my grave ; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the...
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samuel pepys and the royal navy

102 páginas
...only 36 when the partial failure of his eyesight compelled him, to his great regret, to give it up, ' which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave.'3 Yet he lived to be 70 years of age, and although for part of his career he 1 On 1 January,...
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University Library of Autobiography, Including All the Great ..., Volumen5

1918 - 456 páginas
...his eyes compelled him to ' ' forbear, ' ' though as he pathetically expresses the deprivation, it "is almost as much as to see myself go into my 'grave." During these ten years he wrote almost as many volumes; but most of the mass is of little value, so...
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