 Come, go to, I will be wise!" I read farming books; I calculated crops; I attended markets; and, in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man; but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad...  The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ... - Page 57edited by Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...favourable, they might have had little to complain of. The poet says, in his autobiographical memoir : I entered on this farm with a full resolution, Come, go to, I will be wise ! I read farming-books — I calculated crops — I attended markets — and, in short, in spite of the devil,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...madness ; but in good sense, and every sober qualification, he was far my superior. " I entered on the farm with a full resolution, ' Come, go to, I will be wise ! '• I read farming books j I calculated crops ; I attended markets ; and, in short, in spite of ' the devil, and the world,... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 pages
...social and amorous madness ; but, in good sense, and every sober qualification, he was far my superior. "I entered on this farm with a full resolution, 'Come,...the flesh,' 1 believe I should have been a wise man ; but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad seed,— the second, from a late harvest, — we... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 530 pages
...madness ; but in good sense, and every sober qualification, he was far my superior. " I entered on the farm with a full resolution, * Come, go to, I will...spite of * the devil, and the world, and the flesh/ I believe I should have been a wise man ; but, the first year, from unfortu- * nately buying bad seed,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 pages
...social and amorous madness ; but in good sense, and every sober qualification, he was far my superior. I entered on this farm with a full resolution, Come, go to, 1 will be ,wise/ I read farming books — I calculated crops — I attended markets, and, in short,... | |
 | 1868 - 838 pages
...in the family amongst us, with which to keep us together. My brother and I took a neighboring farm. I entered on this farm with a full resolution, ' Come,...spite of the devil, and the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man ; but the first year, from unfortiinately buying bad seed,... | |
 | Burns Club of the City of New York - 1860 - 164 pages
...resolution—Come, go to ! I will be wise. I read farming books, I attended markets, I calculated crops, and, in short, in spite of the devil and the world and the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man, but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad seed, the... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 pages
...social and amorous madness ; but in good sense, and every sober qualification, he was far my superior. I entered on this farm with a full resolution, "come,...go to, I will be •wise!" I read farming books, I caleulated crops ; I attended markets : and in short, in spite of the devil, and the world, and the... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 pages
...and amorous madness ; but, in good sense, and every sober qualification, lie was far my superior. " I entered on this farm with a full resolution, ' Come,...markets : and, in short, in spite of ' the devil, snd the world, and the flesh,' I believe I should have been a wise man; but the first year, from unfortunately... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 652 pages
...social and amorous madness ; hut in good sense, and every sober qualification, he was far my superior. " I entered on this farm with a full resolution, 'Come,...spite of the devil, and the world, and the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man ; but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad seed, the... | |
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