Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West TennesseeJ. and J. Harper, 1833 - 209 pages Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, Of West Tennessee by Printers J. & J. Harper, first published in 1833, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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Page 9 - HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY ON THE MORE NORTHERN COASTS OF NORTH AMERICA.
Page 7 - A DESCRIPTION OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND, AND ITS INHABITANTS. With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers.
Page 46 - Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden-gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a' that ; For a
Page 2 - ... to which this volume is devoted. In it he has laid open the stores of his memory, and strikingly condensed and elucidated the subject ; in many cases explaining, by most ingenious theories, occurrences which seem to lie beyond the boundaries of natural action. | "This volume is most interesting, and will be read with great pleasure by almost every class of readers.
Page 175 - During the colonel's first winter in Washington, a caravan of wild animals was brought to the city and exhibited. Large crowds attended the exhibition ; and, prompted by common curiosity, one evening Colonel Crockett attended. " I had just got in," said he : " the house was very much crowded, and the first thing I noticed was two wild cats in a cage. Some acquaintance asked me ' if they were like the wild cats in the backwoods ?' and I was looking at them, when one turned over and died.
Page 166 - I wish I may be shot . Says he,' What will you have, sir?' And says I,' You may well say that, after stealing my goose.
Page 39 - Hope not exist, because a lovely woman has said no—because she has said no, whose only method consists in going counter to all method— because she has said no, whose determination, when once made, is so fixed that it has given rise to the following lines: " Stamp it on the running stream. Print it on the moon's pale beam, And each evanescent letter Shall be firmer, fairer, better, And more permanent, I ween, Than the things those letters mean.
Page 155 - They then take a fog-cutter, eat breakfast, and Slim returns to the charge. The old man is utterly confounded. Slim sees his advantage, follows him over his farm, every part of which he admires, and which only supports his argument, that a man so well fixed ought to have a good clock. They return to the house, take a little more whiskey and water, and Slim is struck with the improved appearance of the room.
Page 149 - Reader, did you ever know a full-blooded yankee clock pedler? If not, imagine a tall lank fellow, with a thin visage, and small dark grey eyes, looking through you at every glance, and having the word trade written in his every action, and you will then have an idea of Mr. Slim. But to make it clearer, imagine the same individual, with a pedler's wagon, and what he would call a goodcretur, riding where the roads are smooth, and always walking up...