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 39
... look for lodging . Fatigued with walking , rowing , and the want of sleep , I was very hungry ; and my whole stock of cash consisted in a single dollar , and about a shilling in copper coin , which I gave to the boatmen for my passage ...
... look for lodging . Fatigued with walking , rowing , and the want of sleep , I was very hungry ; and my whole stock of cash consisted in a single dollar , and about a shilling in copper coin , which I gave to the boatmen for my passage ...
Page 80
... look and a very grave manner of speaking ; his name was Samuel Mickle . This gentleman , a stranger to me , stopped me one day at my door , and asked me if I was the young man who had lately opened a new printing - house ? Being ...
... look and a very grave manner of speaking ; his name was Samuel Mickle . This gentleman , a stranger to me , stopped me one day at my door , and asked me if I was the young man who had lately opened a new printing - house ? Being ...
Page 17
... look upon you as much safer where - but I know it will not do for you . Not one action has been brought to this court ; no business of any sort in your way . All law ceases , and the gospel will soon follow , for they are support- ers ...
... look upon you as much safer where - but I know it will not do for you . Not one action has been brought to this court ; no business of any sort in your way . All law ceases , and the gospel will soon follow , for they are support- ers ...
Page 19
... looks as though the curtain was but just drawn , and only the first scene of the infernal plot disclosed . And ... look forward to that coun- try where there are neither wars nor rumors of war , in a firm belief that , through the ...
... looks as though the curtain was but just drawn , and only the first scene of the infernal plot disclosed . And ... look forward to that coun- try where there are neither wars nor rumors of war , in a firm belief that , through the ...
Page 20
... look for that virtue , of which you find but small glimmer- ings in the metropolis . Indeed , they have not the advantages , nor the resolution , to encourage our own manufactories , which people in the country have . To the mercantile ...
... look for that virtue , of which you find but small glimmer- ings in the metropolis . Indeed , they have not the advantages , nor the resolution , to encourage our own manufactories , which people in the country have . To the mercantile ...
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