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... answer pleased the empress . That is what I like , ' she said . ' The monarch should settle all these matters . I hope ... answered ; " I was too poor for anything of that kind to be expected of me . When an opportunity came to join a ...
... answer pleased the empress . That is what I like , ' she said . ' The monarch should settle all these matters . I hope ... answered ; " I was too poor for anything of that kind to be expected of me . When an opportunity came to join a ...
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... " that's just what I want to hear . " " Very well , " answered he ; " I will give you a little instance of one of my failures in love - making . " It was long before my visit to Empress Woo. THE VIZIER OF THE TWO - HORNED ALEXANDER . 15.
... " that's just what I want to hear . " " Very well , " answered he ; " I will give you a little instance of one of my failures in love - making . " It was long before my visit to Empress Woo. THE VIZIER OF THE TWO - HORNED ALEXANDER . 15.
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... answered : ' I have no mind to be a terror to my friends , as you would have me , who despise my table for being provided with fish instead of with the heads of satraps . ' . . . From what I have said it is evident that Alexander was ...
... answered : ' I have no mind to be a terror to my friends , as you would have me , who despise my table for being provided with fish instead of with the heads of satraps . ' . . . From what I have said it is evident that Alexander was ...
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... answered , barely raising a finger in the direc- tion of the knot of courtiers , in the midst of whom , some fifty yards away , the cold , pale face of the king was just then distinctly visible . " France might be burned before his eyes ...
... answered , barely raising a finger in the direc- tion of the knot of courtiers , in the midst of whom , some fifty yards away , the cold , pale face of the king was just then distinctly visible . " France might be burned before his eyes ...
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... answered Dunstan , laconically , without looking up . " Take care of him , and bring me word of him , " she answered , and from a wallet she wore she gave him gold , which he took , silently bending his head still lower in thanks . He ...
... answered Dunstan , laconically , without looking up . " Take care of him , and bring me word of him , " she answered , and from a wallet she wore she gave him gold , which he took , silently bending his head still lower in thanks . He ...
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Page 286 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...
Page 286 - Tragedy, and contained an account of the drowning of Captain Worthilake, with his two daughters ; the other was a sailor's song, on the taking of Teach (or Blackbeard), the pirate.
Page 618 - Boston then lay out, at their discretion, one hundred thousand pounds in public works, which may be judged of most general utility to the inhabitants; such as fortifications, bridges, aqueducts, public buildings, baths, pavements, or whatever may make living in the town more convenient to its people, and render it more agreeable to strangers resorting thither for health or a temporary residence.
Page 750 - I declined it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions; viz., that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
Page 286 - Worthilake, with his two daughters: the other was a sailor's song, on the taking of Teach (or Blackbeard) the pirate. They were wretched stuff, in the Grub-street-ballad style; and when they were printed he sent me about the town to sell them. The first sold wonderfully, the event being recent, having made a great noise. This flattered my vanity; but my father discouraged me by ridiculing my performances, and telling me versemakers were generally beggars. So I escaped being a poet, most probably...
Page 616 - I am to proceed to Niagara; and, having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time, and I suppose it will; for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days ; and then I see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara.
Page 618 - I should desire is, that you would always be equally ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go round; for mankind are all of a family.
Page 618 - ... molested in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt, or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted by the armed force of the enemy...
Page 409 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Page 363 - I believe to be, in a deeper or less deep degree, the universal one ; and that every student and reader of History, who strives earnestly to conceive for himself what manner of Fact and Man this or the other vague Historical Name can have been, will, as the first and directest indication of all, search eagerly for a Portrait, for all the reasonable Portraits there are ; and never rest till he have made out, if possible, what the man's natural face was like. Often I have found a Portrait superior...