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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... He challenged me once to talk Latin with him , says the doctor . 1 quoted some of Horace , which he took to be my own speech . He said a few words well enough . to school . badge of disgrace towering from his nape £ 4 MEMOIRS OF.
... He challenged me once to talk Latin with him , says the doctor . 1 quoted some of Horace , which he took to be my own speech . He said a few words well enough . to school . badge of disgrace towering from his nape £ 4 MEMOIRS OF.
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... took him at his word ; and one morning , when he had overstaid his time , either through lazi- ness , inattention or design , he found himself waited on in the usual form . He immediately admitted the justice of the procedure , and ...
... took him at his word ; and one morning , when he had overstaid his time , either through lazi- ness , inattention or design , he found himself waited on in the usual form . He immediately admitted the justice of the procedure , and ...
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... took place at my grandfather's , to the no small entertainment of the old gentleman , who often adverted to it afterwards . Dove was there , and in endeavoring to correct my utterance , as I had an ill habit of speaking with my teeth ...
... took place at my grandfather's , to the no small entertainment of the old gentleman , who often adverted to it afterwards . Dove was there , and in endeavoring to correct my utterance , as I had an ill habit of speaking with my teeth ...
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... took part , like a se- cond friend , in the vicissitudes of his fortune , I par- ticipated in his toils , I warmed with his exploits , I wept where he wept , and exulted where he tri amphed . As my lot has been cast in a turbulent ...
... took part , like a se- cond friend , in the vicissitudes of his fortune , I par- ticipated in his toils , I warmed with his exploits , I wept where he wept , and exulted where he tri amphed . As my lot has been cast in a turbulent ...
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... took occasion to observe . that his were too small for him , but as mine , on the contra- ry , were large and exactly suited to his hand , he proposed an exchange , offering me the odds , first , of two , and then of three for one ...
... took occasion to observe . that his were too small for him , but as mine , on the contra- ry , were large and exactly suited to his hand , he proposed an exchange , offering me the odds , first , of two , and then of three for one ...
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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...