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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... hand pretty soon ; but I failed entirely in arithmetic . At ten years old I was taken to help my father in his business , which was that of a tallow - chandler and soap - boiler ; a business to which he was not bred , but had assumed on ...
... hand pretty soon ; but I failed entirely in arithmetic . At ten years old I was taken to help my father in his business , which was that of a tallow - chandler and soap - boiler ; a business to which he was not bred , but had assumed on ...
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... hand , and to construct little machines for my experiments , at the moment when the intention of making these was ... hands was laid out in the purchasing of books . I was very fond of voyages . My first acquisition was Bunyan's works in ...
... hand , and to construct little machines for my experiments , at the moment when the intention of making these was ... hands was laid out in the purchasing of books . I was very fond of voyages . My first acquisition was Bunyan's works in ...
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... hand to my brother . I now had access to better books . An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers en- abled me sometimes to borrow a small one , which I was careful to return soon , and clean . Often I sat up in my chamber ...
... hand to my brother . I now had access to better books . An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers en- abled me sometimes to borrow a small one , which I was careful to return soon , and clean . Often I sat up in my chamber ...
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... hand among them . But , being still a boy , and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper , if he knew it to be mine , I contrived to disguise my hand , and , writ- ing an anonymous paper , I put ...
... hand among them . But , being still a boy , and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper , if he knew it to be mine , I contrived to disguise my hand , and , writ- ing an anonymous paper , I put ...
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... hands enough already ; but he said , " My son at Philadelphia has lately lost his principal hand , Aquila Rose , by death ; if you go thither , I believe he may employ you . " Philadelphia was one hundred miles further ; I set out ...
... hands enough already ; but he said , " My son at Philadelphia has lately lost his principal hand , Aquila Rose , by death ; if you go thither , I believe he may employ you . " Philadelphia was one hundred miles further ; I set out ...
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