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 27
... rest going from the printing - house to their meals , I remained there alone , and , despatching presently my light repast ( which was often no more than a biscuit , or a slice of bread , a handful of raisins , or a tart from the pastry ...
... rest going from the printing - house to their meals , I remained there alone , and , despatching presently my light repast ( which was often no more than a biscuit , or a slice of bread , a handful of raisins , or a tart from the pastry ...
Page 36
... 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 sailed on being salt . In the ...
... 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 sailed on being salt . In the ...
Page 37
... rest of his life . He had been , I imagine , an ambulatory quack doctor , for there was no town in England , nor any country in Europe , of which he could not give a very particular account . He had some letters , and was ingenious ...
... rest of his life . He had been , I imagine , an ambulatory quack doctor , for there was no town in England , nor any country in Europe , of which he could not give a very particular account . He had some letters , and was ingenious ...
Page 40
... rest the preceding night , I fell fast asleep , and continued so till the meeting broke up , when some one was kind enough to rouse me . This , therefore , was the first house I was in , or slept in , in Philadelphia . I then walked ...
... rest the preceding night , I fell fast asleep , and continued so till the meeting broke up , when some one was kind enough to rouse me . This , therefore , was the first house I was in , or slept in , in Philadelphia . I then walked ...
Page 48
... rest . This was all I could ob- tain , except some small gifts as tokens of his and my mother's love , when I embarked again for New York , now with their approbation and their blessing . The sloop putting in at Newport , Rhode Island ...
... rest . This was all I could ob- tain , except some small gifts as tokens of his and my mother's love , when I embarked again for New York , now with their approbation and their blessing . The sloop putting in at Newport , Rhode Island ...
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