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 23
... night , when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned in the morning , lest it should be found missing . After some time a merchant , an ingenious , sensible man , Mr. Matthew Adams , who had a pretty collec- tion of ...
... night , when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned in the morning , lest it should be found missing . After some time a merchant , an ingenious , sensible man , Mr. Matthew Adams , who had a pretty collec- tion of ...
Page 26
... night , or be- fore work began in the morning , or on Sundays , when I contrived to be in the printing - house , avoiding as much as I could the constant attendance at public wor- ship , which my father used to exact of me when I was ...
... night , or be- fore work began in the morning , or on Sundays , when I contrived to be in the printing - house , avoiding as much as I could the constant attendance at public wor- ship , which my father used to exact of me when I was ...
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... night under the door of the printing - house . It was found in the morn- ing , and communicated to his writing friends when they called in as usual . They read it , commented on it in my hearing , and I had the exquisite pleasure of ...
... night under the door of the printing - house . It was found in the morn- ing , and communicated to his writing friends when they called in as usual . They read it , commented on it in my hearing , and I had the exquisite pleasure of ...
Page 36
... night , with very little rest ; but , the wind abating the next day , we made a shift to reach Am- boy before night , having been thirty hours on the water , without victuals , or any drink but a bottle of filthy rum , the water we ...
... night , with very little rest ; but , the wind abating the next day , we made a shift to reach Am- boy before night , having been thirty hours on the water , without victuals , or any drink but a bottle of filthy rum , the water we ...
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... night ; beginning now to wish I had never left home . I made so mis- erable a figure , too , that I found , by the questions asked me , I was suspected to be some runaway indent- ured servant , and in danger of being taken up on that ...
... night ; beginning now to wish I had never left home . I made so mis- erable a figure , too , that I found , by the questions asked me , I was suspected to be some runaway indent- ured servant , and in danger of being taken up on that ...
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