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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... . FRANKLIN , ADAMS , COOPER , LONG FELLOW . EDITED BY SAMUEL ELIOT , SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS , BOSTON . NEW YORK : TAINTOR BROTHERS , MERRILL & CO . 758 BROADWAY . PUBLISHERS ' NOTICE . In many of the reports of SELECTIONS.
... . FRANKLIN , ADAMS , COOPER , LONG FELLOW . EDITED BY SAMUEL ELIOT , SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS , BOSTON . NEW YORK : TAINTOR BROTHERS , MERRILL & CO . 758 BROADWAY . PUBLISHERS ' NOTICE . In many of the reports of SELECTIONS.
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... Boston : " We not only want more reading books , but different ones ; not readers , not fragments of writings , but writings however brief , a story or a history , a book of travels or a poem , associated as vividly as possible with the ...
... Boston : " We not only want more reading books , but different ones ; not readers , not fragments of writings , but writings however brief , a story or a history , a book of travels or a poem , associated as vividly as possible with the ...
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... Boston , in New England.1 My mother , the second wife of my father , was Abiah Fol- ger , daughter of Peter Folger , one of the first settlers of New England ; of whom honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather in his ecclesiastical ...
... Boston , in New England.1 My mother , the second wife of my father , was Abiah Fol- ger , daughter of Peter Folger , one of the first settlers of New England ; of whom honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather in his ecclesiastical ...
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... Boston , where I some years since placed a marble over their grave , with this inscrip- tion : - JOSIAH FRANKLIN and ABIAH his wife , Lie here interred . They lived lovingly together in wedlock , Fifty - five years ; And without an ...
... Boston , where I some years since placed a marble over their grave , with this inscrip- tion : - JOSIAH FRANKLIN and ABIAH his wife , Lie here interred . They lived lovingly together in wedlock , Fifty - five years ; And without an ...
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... Boston . But the sum he exacted as a fee for my apprenticeship displeased my father , and I was taken home again . From my infancy I was passionately fond of read- ing , and all the money that came into my hands was laid out in the ...
... Boston . But the sum he exacted as a fee for my apprenticeship displeased my father , and I was taken home again . From my infancy I was passionately fond of read- ing , and all the money that came into my hands was laid out in the ...
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