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Page 81
... night before , was dreaming away the morn- ing in his verandah , leaving the piles of papers , domestic and parliamentary , which he had accumulated on a small table beside him , totally neglected . For it was impossible to work . The ...
... night before , was dreaming away the morn- ing in his verandah , leaving the piles of papers , domestic and parliamentary , which he had accumulated on a small table beside him , totally neglected . For it was impossible to work . The ...
Page 85
... night school . Brother Joe's crutch . Yes ; our Joe was a cripple . With poor Joe , that restless vivacity to which I have called your attention above , had ended very sadly . He was one of the finest child- ren ever seen ; but , when ...
... night school . Brother Joe's crutch . Yes ; our Joe was a cripple . With poor Joe , that restless vivacity to which I have called your attention above , had ended very sadly . He was one of the finest child- ren ever seen ; but , when ...
Page 88
... night I was sleepily going up to bed , when my father stopped me by saying , " Old man , you and me must have a talk , " whereupon my mo- ther departed . " Jim , " said he as soon as she was gone , " did you ever hear anything about ...
... night I was sleepily going up to bed , when my father stopped me by saying , " Old man , you and me must have a talk , " whereupon my mo- ther departed . " Jim , " said he as soon as she was gone , " did you ever hear anything about ...
Page 89
... night , old man . " " Where are you going to put him , father 1 " " As far off as I can , " said my father . " In the big room at the top of the house . " " In the ghost's room ? " said I. And I went to bed , and dreamt of Reuben being ...
... night , old man . " " Where are you going to put him , father 1 " " As far off as I can , " said my father . " In the big room at the top of the house . " " In the ghost's room ? " said I. And I went to bed , and dreamt of Reuben being ...
Page 94
... night and tell me stories about the young lady , whom he made a clothes - peg on which he hung every fancy of his brain . He took his yellow sampler to kind old Mr. Faulkner , who told him that our new house , Church Place , had been ...
... night and tell me stories about the young lady , whom he made a clothes - peg on which he hung every fancy of his brain . He took his yellow sampler to kind old Mr. Faulkner , who told him that our new house , Church Place , had been ...
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Page 263 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Page 239 - Still, thro' the rattle, parts of speech were rife : While he could stammer He settled Hoti's business— let it be ! — Properly based Oun — Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De, Dead from the waist down.
Page 467 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained and prescribed, in these words, and no other : IV. " I, AB, do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained and prescribed in and by the book, intituled,
Page 520 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian ; and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Page 368 - Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on Round the old tree.
Page 367 - For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice.
Page 367 - We are puppets, Man in his pride, and Beauty fair in her flower ; Do we move ourselves, or are moved by an unseen hand at a game That pushes us off from the board, and others ever succeed ? Ah yet, we cannot be kind to each other here for an hour ; We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame ; However we brave it out, we men are a little breed.
Page 272 - I have given instructions to those officers, to whom it belongs, to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons who shall, within the cognizance of the courts of the United States, violate the law of nations, with respect to the powers at war, or any of them.
Page 355 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself ; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Page 143 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of Winter I mourn ; Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save.