I was compensated by the fact that there was never any scolding or punishing by my parents; no objection to rational enjoyments, such as fishing, going to the creek a mile away to swim in summer, taking a horse and visiting my grandparents in the adjoining... Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant - 第21页作者:Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1894 - 666 页全本阅读 - 图书信息
| 1922 - 702 页
...objection to rational enjoyments, such as fishing, going to the creek a mile away to swim in summer, taking a horse and visiting my grandparents in the adjoining...horse and sleigh when there was snow on the ground." The recollection of the attitude of his parents toward him doubtless had great influence with him as... | |
| Owen Wister - 1928 - 298 页
...strong enough to hold a plough. From that age until seventeen I did all the work done with horses. . . . While still quite young, I had visited Cincinnati, forty-five miles away, several times-alone. ... I did not like to work; but I did as much of it while young as grown men can be hired... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1960 - 634 页
...creek a mile away to swim in summer; taking a horse and visiting my grandparents in the adjoining 35 county, fifteen miles off; skating on the ice in winter,...horse and sleigh when there was snow on the ground." The bringing up of Abraham Lincoln was also, I suppose, much on this wise; and meagre, too meagre,... | |
| Ulysses S. Grant - 1990 - 1228 页
...objection to rational enjoyments, such as fishing, going to the creek a mile away to swim in summer, taking a horse and visiting my grandparents in the adjoining...away, several times, alone; also Maysville, Kentucky, EH c, U r often, and once Louisville. The journey to Louisville was a big one for a boy of that day.... | |
| Jean Edward Smith - 2001 - 785 页
...no objections to rational enjoyments, such as fishing, going to the creek to swim in summer, taking a horse and visiting my grandparents in the adjoining county, fifteen miles off."8 In addition to earning him his parents' gratitude, Grant's horsemanship soon became well known... | |
| Ulysses S. Grant - 2006 - 545 页
...objection to rational enjoyments, such as fishing, going to the creek a mile away to swim in summer, taking a horse and visiting my grandparents in the adjoining...Louisville. The journey to Louisville was a big one for a boy of that day. I had also gone once with a two-horse carriage to Chilicothe, about seventy... | |
| Greg Haitz, Lisa Haitz - 2006 - 132 页
...remembered his time in Georgetown as "fishing, going to the creek a mile away to swim in summer, taking a horse and visiting my grandparents in the adjoining...horse and sleigh when there was snow on the ground." Built in 1823, this home in Georgetown is where Ulysses S. Grant lived with his parents and tour siblings... | |
| Paul F. Boller - 2007 - 444 页
...he wrote in his memoirs, "such as fishing, going to the creek a mile away to swim in summer, taking a horse and visiting my grandparents in the adjoining county fifteen miles off, skiing on the ice in winter, or taking a horse and sleigh when there was snow on the ground." But he... | |
| 1922 - 728 页
...objection to rational enjoyments, such as fishing, going to the creek a mile away to swim in summer, taking a horse and visiting my grandparents in the adjoining...horse and sleigh when there was snow on the ground." The recollection of the attitude of his parents toward him doubtless had great influence with him as... | |
| 1922 - 724 页
...objection to rational enjoyments, such as fishing, going to the creek a mile away to swim in summer, taking a horse and visiting my grandparents in the adjoining...horse and sleigh when there was snow on the ground." The recollection of the attitude of his parents toward him doubtless had great influence with him as... | |
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