 | 1903 - 402 pages
...more acceptable to my Master. He, on the other hand, perceiving with what earnest desire, I pursued learning, gave me not only all the encouragement,...all the help he could. For, having a curious ear, he understood by my tone, when I understood what I read, and when I did not ; and, accordingly, would... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 pages
...generally speak it, as if it was another tongue. My master, perceiving with what earnest desire I pursued learning, gave me not only all the encouragement,...the help he could ; for, having a curious ear, he understood, by my tone, when I understood what I read, and accordingly would stop me, examine me, and... | |
 | George Fox - 1903 - 556 pages
...more acceptable to my master. He, on the other hand, perceiving with what earnest desire I pursued learning, gave me not only all the encouragement but...all the help he could, for having a curious ear, he understood by my tone when I understood what I read and when I did not ; and accordingly would stop... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 524 pages
...foreign pronunciation of Latin. " Milton," says Elwood, " perceiving with what earnest desire I pursued learning, gave me not only all the encouragement but...all the help he could; for having a curious ear he understood by my tone when I understood what I read and when I did not ; and accordingly he would stop... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...a new difficulty to me. . . . He, on the other hand, perceiving with what earnest desire I pursued learning, gave me not only all the encouragement,...all the help he could. For, having a curious ear, he understood by my tone when I understood what I read, and when I did not ; and accordingly would stop... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Book Committee - 1912 - 342 pages
...Latin tongue as he pleased to hear me read. John Milton perceiving with what earnest desire I pursued learning, gave me not only all the encouragement but...all the help he could ; for having a curious ear he understood by my tone when I understood what I read and when I did not ; and accordingly would stop... | |
 | Anna K. Nardo - 2003 - 292 pages
...during the years of his blindness: "Perceiving with what earnest desire I pursued learning, [Milton] gave me not only all the encouragement, but all the help he could; for, having a curious ear, he understood by my tone when I understood what I read, and when I did not, and accordingly would stop... | |
 | Thomas Ellwood - 2004 - 256 pages
...more acceptable to my master. He, on the other hand, perceiving with what earnest desire I pursued learning, gave me not only all the encouragement but all the help he could; for, having a curious [accurate] ear, he understood by my tone when I understood what I read and when I did not; and accordingly... | |
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He, on the other hand, perceiving with what earnest desire I pursued learning, gave me not only all the encouragement but all the help he could ; for, having a curious ear, he understood by my tone when I understood what I read and when I did not ; and... 
