| John Thrupp - 1862 - 438 sivua
...would he be before he dined T Another is : " An old man met a boy. ' Good day, my son,' said he ; ' may you live as long as you have lived, and as much...one year in addition to the others, you •will be just a century old.' What was the child's age V'1 The foregoing are very simple, and not above the... | |
| Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Henry Boynton Smith - 1864 - 420 sivua
...with God's praise. For the many who cannot read, I think it is a most worthy custom thus to make the very hours of the day so many pages of a sacred hymnal,...longing to have been a boy came back to me when I heard §uch wonders, and more especially when I heard them discourse concerning the firmament, with all the... | |
| Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Henry Boynton Smith - 1864 - 426 sivua
...old man met a child. ' Good day, my son,' he said ; ' may you live as long as you have lived, and aa much more, and thrice as much as all this, and if...give you one year in addition to the others, you will bo a century old : what was the lad's age ?' And the lads actually answered it, so the learned priests... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - 1056 sivua
...can think of — stretches his line far back. "An old man met a child. 'Good day, my son,' says he, ' may you live as long as you have lived and as much...you one year in addition to the others, you will be just a century old.' What was the lad's age?" To prevent a needless waste of exertion, I hasten to... | |
| William Andrews - 1900 - 298 sivua
...forefathers' ignorance. Here is an easy one. An old man met a boy. " Good-day, my son," said he ; " may you live as long as you have lived, and as much...you one year in addition to the others, you will be just a century old " : what was the child's age ? But what of this ? A man had three daughters of different... | |
| George Frederick Bosworth - 1914 - 230 sivua
...dined ? " Another question is as follows : " An old man met a child. ' Good day, my son,' said he, ' may you live as long as you have lived, and as much...you will be a century old.' What was the lad's age ? " The questions appear to be curious rather than difficult. - > t The other sciences were also the... | |
| Alexander Hamilton Thompson - 1926 - 612 sivua
...he, ' may you live as long as you have lived and as much more and thrice all this, and if God gives you one year in addition to the others you will be a century old.' How old was this child?" Hook, Lives, vol. I., 198. • • Representations of a bunch of five home-made... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1895 - 510 sivua
...he can think of, stretches his line far back. "An old man met a child. ' Good day, my son,' says he, 'may you live as long as you have lived and as much...you one year in addition to the others, you will be just a century old,' What was the lad's age ? " To prevent a needless waste of exertion, I hasten to... | |
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