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... presents and acknowledgments of his literary powers from different parts of the world . He stands prominent in the science of legislation and government . The great King was a practical mechanic , working in silver and gold . He ...
... presents and acknowledgments of his literary powers from different parts of the world . He stands prominent in the science of legislation and government . The great King was a practical mechanic , working in silver and gold . He ...
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... present day . In after life he had become very intimately acquainted with the topography of his native island , from the Humber to the shores of the Channel and from the Severn to the East Anglian coast . As a military tactician , he ...
... present day . In after life he had become very intimately acquainted with the topography of his native island , from the Humber to the shores of the Channel and from the Severn to the East Anglian coast . As a military tactician , he ...
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... present empire of the Queen . But it was the bones of our common tongue ; it was the bones with the marrow in them , ready to be clothed in flesh and equipped with sinews and nerves . But this simple and unsophisticated tongue the ...
... present empire of the Queen . But it was the bones of our common tongue ; it was the bones with the marrow in them , ready to be clothed in flesh and equipped with sinews and nerves . But this simple and unsophisticated tongue the ...
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... present day very frequently conforms . It is hardly too much to say that there is absolutely nothing which approaches within measurable distance of Washington Irving or Nathaniel Hawthorne . " The late James A. Herne is accepted by many ...
... present day very frequently conforms . It is hardly too much to say that there is absolutely nothing which approaches within measurable distance of Washington Irving or Nathaniel Hawthorne . " The late James A. Herne is accepted by many ...
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... present year ; practically speaking it has , as might be conjectured , only a historical interest ; it con- tains , certainly , an excellent account of the Nordmaling flora of that time , and the names of certain Swedish plants that are ...
... present year ; practically speaking it has , as might be conjectured , only a historical interest ; it con- tains , certainly , an excellent account of the Nordmaling flora of that time , and the names of certain Swedish plants that are ...
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Page 12 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...
Page 8 - I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to, in...
Page 8 - Brownell, very successful in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old...
Page 8 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Page 10 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 8 - ... same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.