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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Page 25
... entering into the subject in dispute , he took 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 ...
... entering into the subject in dispute , he took 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 ...
Page 37
... entered into conversation with me while I took some refresh- ment , and , finding I had read a little , became very obliging and friendly . Our acquaintance continued all the rest of his life . He had been , I imagine , an ambulatory ...
... entered into conversation with me while I took some refresh- ment , and , finding I had read a little , became very obliging and friendly . Our acquaintance continued all the rest of his life . He had been , I imagine , an ambulatory ...
Page 41
... entered into a conversation on his present undertaking and prospects ; while Bradford , not discovering that he was the other printer's father , on Keimer's saying he expected soon to get the greatest part of the business into his own ...
... entered into a conversation on his present undertaking and prospects ; while Bradford , not discovering that he was the other printer's father , on Keimer's saying he expected soon to get the greatest part of the business into his own ...
Page 54
... entered neither fish , flesh , nor fowl . This whim suited me the better at this time from the cheapness of it , not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week . I have since kept several lents most strictly , leaving the ...
... entered neither fish , flesh , nor fowl . This whim suited me the better at this time from the cheapness of it , not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week . I have since kept several lents most strictly , leaving the ...
Page 11
... entered the apartment . He paused a moment , as the person of Harper met his view , and then , in a more formal manner , repeated the request he had before made through the servant . Mr. Wharton and his family disliked the appearance of ...
... entered the apartment . He paused a moment , as the person of Harper met his view , and then , in a more formal manner , repeated the request he had before made through the servant . Mr. Wharton and his family disliked the appearance of ...
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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 Harper Harvey head hear heard heart Heaven Henry hill hope horse hour Keimer Killingworth King knew lady Lawton leave letter light listened lived look manner Mason ment Miss Peyton morning never night officer paper passed paused pedler Philadelphia pleasure PORTIA pounds currency printed printing-house received remember Riddlesden seemed silent soon steed stood stranger street thee thou thought tion told took town trooper troops turned voice waited walked Weymouth wish words write young