Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty Years: With Occasional Remarks Upon the General Occurrences, Character and Spirit of that Eventful PeriodJohn Wyeth, 1811 - 378 من الصفحات |
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... major general in the army of the United States at the battle of Cambden . Though a Ger- man by birth , he had belonged to the French ser- vice , and had returned to France , after the visit just mentioned . During our revolutionary ...
... major general in the army of the United States at the battle of Cambden . Though a Ger- man by birth , he had belonged to the French ser- vice , and had returned to France , after the visit just mentioned . During our revolutionary ...
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... Major George Etherington , of the Royal Ameri- cans , was an occasional inmate of our house , from its first establishment on the large scale , until the time of its being laid down , about the year 1774. He seemed to be always employed ...
... Major George Etherington , of the Royal Ameri- cans , was an occasional inmate of our house , from its first establishment on the large scale , until the time of its being laid down , about the year 1774. He seemed to be always employed ...
الصفحة 60
... major's forte was a knowledge of mankind , of low life especially ; and he seldom scented a subject that he did not , in the end , make his prey . He knew his man , and could immediately discover a fish that would bite : Hence , he ...
... major's forte was a knowledge of mankind , of low life especially ; and he seldom scented a subject that he did not , in the end , make his prey . He knew his man , and could immediately discover a fish that would bite : Hence , he ...
الصفحة 61
... major's room until I was sufficiently drilled for the public school ; and the ice thus broken , I went on , and instead of ` standing in a corner , like a goose on one leg ( the ma- jor's comparison ) " while music softens and while ...
... major's room until I was sufficiently drilled for the public school ; and the ice thus broken , I went on , and instead of ` standing in a corner , like a goose on one leg ( the ma- jor's comparison ) " while music softens and while ...
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... major took care to relate the circum- stance at the breakfast table , and , of course , obtained a unanimous suffrage to his opinion , that the cap- tain's recruit was not exceeding wise . Although Etherington was extremely deficient in ...
... major took care to relate the circum- stance at the breakfast table , and , of course , obtained a unanimous suffrage to his opinion , that the cap- tain's recruit was not exceeding wise . Although Etherington was extremely deficient in ...
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الصفحة 305 - And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, — 'Keep your piece nine years.
الصفحة 21 - I'm drest all in my best To walk abroad with Sally; She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley.
الصفحة 362 - Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father...
الصفحة 86 - Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until your morals shall happily be ripened to that maturity of corruption at which the worst examples cease to be contagious.
الصفحة 109 - They made a halt, while the Doctor, foaming with rage and indignation, without his hat, his wig dishevelled and bloody from his wounded hand, stood up in the cart and called for a bowl of punch.
الصفحة 27 - Where sordid interest shows the prey. When once the poet's honour ceases, From reason far his transports rove ; And Boileau, for eight hundred pieces, Makes Louis take the wall of Jove.
الصفحة 333 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — Fie, fie, fie! pah; pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there's money for the'e.
الصفحة 84 - I have been wronged enough to arm my temper Against the smooth delusion; but alas ! (Chide not my weakness, gentle maid, but pity me) A woman's softness hangs about me still : Then let me blush, and tell thee all my folly. I...
الصفحة 303 - Things vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other : And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise...