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 97
... feel the im- propriety of presenting one's self as the proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one's reputation in the smallest degree above that of one's neighbors , when one has need of their assist- ance to ...
... feel the im- propriety of presenting one's self as the proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one's reputation in the smallest degree above that of one's neighbors , when one has need of their assist- ance to ...
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... is the most affectionate regard of your ABIGAIL ADAMS . 2 . BRAINTREE , 19 August , 1774 . The great distance between us makes the time ap- pear very long to ine . It seems already a month since you left me . The great anxiety I feel for.
... is the most affectionate regard of your ABIGAIL ADAMS . 2 . BRAINTREE , 19 August , 1774 . The great distance between us makes the time ap- pear very long to ine . It seems already a month since you left me . The great anxiety I feel for.
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... feel for my coun- try , for you , and for our family , renders the day tedi- ous and the night unpleasant . The rocks and quick- sands appear upon every side . What course you can or will take is all wrapped in the bosom of futurity ...
... feel for my coun- try , for you , and for our family , renders the day tedi- ous and the night unpleasant . The rocks and quick- sands appear upon every side . What course you can or will take is all wrapped in the bosom of futurity ...
Page 28
... feel a respect for the lowest subaltern in the army . You tell me you know not when you shall see me . 1 Who had been governor of Massachusetts . I never trust myself long with the terrors which sometimes intrude themselves 28 JOHN AND ...
... feel a respect for the lowest subaltern in the army . You tell me you know not when you shall see me . 1 Who had been governor of Massachusetts . I never trust myself long with the terrors which sometimes intrude themselves 28 JOHN AND ...
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... feel for us ? Can they realize what we suf- fer ? And can they believe with what patience and fortitude we endure the conflict ? Nor do we even tremble at the frowns of power . You inquire of me who were at the engagement at Grape ...
... feel for us ? Can they realize what we suf- fer ? And can they believe with what patience and fortitude we endure the conflict ? Nor do we even tremble at the frowns of power . You inquire of me who were at the engagement at Grape ...
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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