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 38
... fire , the night being cold , in October , and there we remained till daylight . Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek , a little above Philadelphia , which we saw as soon as we got out of the creek , and arrived ...
... fire , the night being cold , in October , and there we remained till daylight . Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek , a little above Philadelphia , which we saw as soon as we got out of the creek , and arrived ...
Page 57
... fire ! He has even improved on the orig- inal . In common conversation he seems to have no choice of words ; he hesitates and blunders ; and yet how he writes ! " When we next met , Ralph discov- covered the trick we had played , and ...
... fire ! He has even improved on the orig- inal . In common conversation he seems to have no choice of words ; he hesitates and blunders ; and yet how he writes ! " When we next met , Ralph discov- covered the trick we had played , and ...
Page 67
... fire but to boil it . She had lived many years in that garret , being permitted to remain there gratis by successive Catho- lic tenants of the house below , as they deemed it a blessing to have her there . A priest visited her , to ...
... fire but to boil it . She had lived many years in that garret , being permitted to remain there gratis by successive Catho- lic tenants of the house below , as they deemed it a blessing to have her there . A priest visited her , to ...
Page 7
... Fire them with ambi- tion to be useful . Make them disdain to be destitute of any useful or ornamental knowledge or accomplish- ment . Fix their ambition upon great and solid ob- jects , and their contempt upon little , frivolous , and ...
... Fire them with ambi- tion to be useful . Make them disdain to be destitute of any useful or ornamental knowledge or accomplish- ment . Fix their ambition upon great and solid ob- jects , and their contempt upon little , frivolous , and ...
Page 23
... fire to the hay , which , with the barn , was soon consumed , — about eighty tons , it is said . We expect soon to be in continual alarms , till some- thing decisive takes place . We wait , with longing expectation , in hopes to hear ...
... fire to the hay , which , with the barn , was soon consumed , — about eighty tons , it is said . We expect soon to be in continual alarms , till some- thing decisive takes place . We wait , with longing expectation , in hopes to hear ...
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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