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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... writing . In thus employing myself I shall yield to the incli- nation , so natural to old men , of talking of themselves and their own actions ; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to those who , from respect to my age , might ...
... writing . In thus employing myself I shall yield to the incli- nation , so natural to old men , of talking of themselves and their own actions ; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to those who , from respect to my age , might ...
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... writing and arithmetic , kept by a then famous man , Mr. George Brownwell . He was a skilful mas- ter , and successful in his profession , employing the mildest and most encouraging methods . Under him I learned to write a good hand ...
... writing and arithmetic , kept by a then famous man , Mr. George Brownwell . He was a skilful mas- ter , and successful in his profession , employing the mildest and most encouraging methods . Under him I learned to write a good hand ...
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... write more methodically . But one does not dress for private company as for a public ball . Perhaps it is only negligence . To return I continued thus employed in my father's business for two years , that is , till I was twelve years ...
... write more methodically . But one does not dress for private company as for a public ball . Perhaps it is only negligence . To return I continued thus employed in my father's business for two years , that is , till I was twelve years ...
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... writing has been of great use to me in the course of my life , and was a principal means of my advancement , I shall tell you how , in such a situation , I acquired what little ability I may be supposed to have in that way . There was ...
... writing has been of great use to me in the course of my life , and was a principal means of my advancement , I shall tell you how , in such a situation , I acquired what little ability I may be supposed to have in that way . There was ...
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... writing , which I copied fair and sent to him . He answered , and I re- plied . Three or four letters on a side had passed , when my father happened to find my papers and read them . Without entering into the subject in dispute , he ...
... writing , which I copied fair and sent to him . He answered , and I re- plied . Three or four letters on a side had passed , when my father happened to find my papers and read them . Without entering into the subject in dispute , he ...
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ABIGAIL ADAMS alarm American Anabaptists arms BELL OF ATRI Birch blessing Boston BRAINTREE brother Cæsar Captain Wharton Castine Charlestown Congress continued cried dark dear distress door dragoons Dunwoodie duty Elizabeth Haddon endeavored enemy eyes father fear feel fire Frances friends gave gazing give governor Grape Island hand Hannah the housemaid happy Harper Harvey head hear heard heart Heaven Henry hill hope horse hour Keimer Killingworth King knew lady Lawton leave letter light listened live look manner Mason ment Miss Peyton morning never night officer paper passed paused pedler Philadelphia pleasure pounds currency printing-house received remember Riddlesden seemed silent soon steed Stephen Potts stood stranger Street thee thou thought tion told took town trooper troops turned voice waited walked Weymouth wish words write young
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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...