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 13
... I should still accept the offer of recommencing the same life . But as this repetition is not to be expected , that which resembles most living one's life over again seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it ; and.
... I should still accept the offer of recommencing the same life . But as this repetition is not to be expected , that which resembles most living one's life over again seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it ; and.
Page 31
... to have about this time . Though a brother , he considered himself as my master , and me as his apprentice , and accordingly expected the same services from me as he would from another , while I thought he degraded me AUTOBIOGRAPHY . 31.
... to have about this time . Though a brother , he considered himself as my master , and me as his apprentice , and accordingly expected the same services from me as he would from another , while I thought he degraded me AUTOBIOGRAPHY . 31.
Page 32
... expected more indulgence . Our disputes were often brought before our father , and I fancy I was either generally in the right , or else a better pleader , because the judgment was generally in my favor . But my brother was passionate ...
... expected more indulgence . Our disputes were often brought before our father , and I fancy I was either generally in the right , or else a better pleader , because the judgment was generally in my favor . But my brother was passionate ...
Page 37
... expected to go before Tuesday , this be- ing Saturday . Wherefore I returned to an old woman in the town , of whom I had bought some gingerbread to eat on the water , and asked her advice . She pro- posed to lodge me , till a passage by ...
... expected to go before Tuesday , this be- ing Saturday . Wherefore I returned to an old woman in the town , of whom I had bought some gingerbread to eat on the water , and asked her advice . She pro- posed to lodge me , till a passage by ...
Page 41
... was the other printer's father , on Keimer's saying he expected soon to get the greatest part of the business into his own hands , drew him on by artful questions , and starting little doubts , to explain all his views AUTOBIOGRAPHY . 41.
... was the other printer's father , on Keimer's saying he expected soon to get the greatest part of the business into his own hands , drew him on by artful questions , and starting little doubts , to explain all his views AUTOBIOGRAPHY . 41.
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