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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... lived lovingly together in wedlock , Fifty - five years ; And without an estate , or any gainful employment , By constant labor , and honest industry , ( With God's blessing , ) Maintained a large family comfortably ; And brought up ...
... lived lovingly together in wedlock , Fifty - five years ; And without an estate , or any gainful employment , By constant labor , and honest industry , ( With God's blessing , ) Maintained a large family comfortably ; And brought up ...
Page 43
... lived very contented , and forgot Boston as much as I could , and did not wish it should be known where I resided , except to my friend Collins , who was in the secret , and kept it faithfully . At length , however , an incident ...
... lived very contented , and forgot Boston as much as I could , and did not wish it should be known where I resided , except to my friend Collins , who was in the secret , and kept it faithfully . At length , however , an incident ...
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... and studying , and a wonderful genius for mathematical learning , in which he far outstripped me . While I lived in Boston , most of my hours of leisure for conversation were spent with him , and he 48 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... and studying , and a wonderful genius for mathematical learning , in which he far outstripped me . While I lived in Boston , most of my hours of leisure for conversation were spent with him , and he 48 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
Page 53
... lived on a pretty good familiar foot- ing , and agreed tolerably well ; for he suspected noth- ing of my setting up . He retained a great deal of his old enthusiasm , and loved argumentation . We there- fore had many disputations . I ...
... lived on a pretty good familiar foot- ing , and agreed tolerably well ; for he suspected noth- ing of my setting up . He retained a great deal of his old enthusiasm , and loved argumentation . We there- fore had many disputations . I ...
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... lived uncommonly well , having the addition of all Mr. Hamilton's stores , who had laid in plentifully . In this passage Mr. Denham contracted a friendship for me , that continued during his life . The voyage was otherwise not a ...
... lived uncommonly well , having the addition of all Mr. Hamilton's stores , who had laid in plentifully . In this passage Mr. Denham contracted a friendship for me , that continued during his life . The voyage was otherwise not a ...
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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