Selections from American Authors: A Reading Book for School and Home. Franklin, Adams, Cooper, LongfellowSamuel Eliot Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Company, 1879 - 410 pages |
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... occasions I was generally the leader among the boys , and sometimes led them into scrapes , of which I will mention one instance , as it shows an early projecting public spirit , though not then justly conducted . There was a salt marsh ...
... occasions I was generally the leader among the boys , and sometimes led them into scrapes , of which I will mention one instance , as it shows an early projecting public spirit , though not then justly conducted . There was a salt marsh ...
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... of mechanics , and on occasion was very handy with other tradesmen's tools . But his great excellence was his sound understanding , and his solid judgment in prudential matters , both in private 18 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... of mechanics , and on occasion was very handy with other tradesmen's tools . But his great excellence was his sound understanding , and his solid judgment in prudential matters , both in private 18 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
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... occasion for friendship . I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion . Persons of good sense , I have since ob- served , seldom fall into it , except lawyers , university men , and generally men of all sorts ...
... occasion for friendship . I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion . Persons of good sense , I have since ob- served , seldom fall into it , except lawyers , university men , and generally men of all sorts ...
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... occasion to talk to me about my manner of writing ; observed , that though I had the advantage of my antagonist in correct spelling and pointing ( which he attributed to the printing - house ) , I fell far short in elegance of ...
... occasion to talk to me about my manner of writing ; observed , that though I had the advantage of my antagonist in correct spelling and pointing ( which he attributed to the printing - house ) , I fell far short in elegance of ...
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... occasion made ashamed of my ignorance in figures , which I had twice failed learning when at school , I took Cocker's book on Arithmetic , and went through the whole by myself with the greatest ease . I also read Seller's and Sturny's ...
... occasion made ashamed of my ignorance in figures , which I had twice failed learning when at school , I took Cocker's book on Arithmetic , and went through the whole by myself with the greatest ease . I also read Seller's and Sturny's ...
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Page 83 - I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws 1 Samuel Quincy. which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
Page 100 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost...
Page 16 - It was one by the village clock, When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare. Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon.
Page 16 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo...
Page 28 - I took a delight in it, practised it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved.
Page 14 - By the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest window in the wall, Where he paused to listen and look down A moment on the roofs of the town, And the moonlight flowing over all.
Page 40 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water ; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Page 70 - Turn, gentle hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow ; Where wilds immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go.'" " Forbear, my son," the hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still ; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Page 55 - Away went Gilpin, neck or nought ; Away went hat and wig ; He little dreamt, when he set out, Of running such a rig.
Page 20 - To which King Robert answered with a sneer, " I am the King, and come to claim my own From an impostor, who usurps my throne!" And suddenly, at these audacious words, Up sprang the angry guests, and drew their swords; The Angel answered, with unruffled brow, " Nay, not the King, but the King's Jester, thou...