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... tion : " What did thee do in the dark ages ? " Crowder laughed . " That is a big ques- tion , " said he , " and the only answer I can give you in a general way is that there were so many things that I was not able to do , or did not ...
... tion : " What did thee do in the dark ages ? " Crowder laughed . " That is a big ques- tion , " said he , " and the only answer I can give you in a general way is that there were so many things that I was not able to do , or did not ...
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... tion . But he never got to it . It was his Carcassonne . The day of trial would come , and he would smile blandly , and remark : " True ! That has slipped my mind completely . Bruce , kindly send over to Heminway and ask him to put it ...
... tion . But he never got to it . It was his Carcassonne . The day of trial would come , and he would smile blandly , and remark : " True ! That has slipped my mind completely . Bruce , kindly send over to Heminway and ask him to put it ...
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... tion with his own traditional conceptions and his own peculiar prejudices , and treated as an absolute or sterilized specimen . The confidence in an ultimately divine origin was an essential part of every family tree among the noble ...
... tion with his own traditional conceptions and his own peculiar prejudices , and treated as an absolute or sterilized specimen . The confidence in an ultimately divine origin was an essential part of every family tree among the noble ...
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... 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 , yet he would pray for his own soul rather than ...
... 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 , yet he would pray for his own soul rather than ...
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... tion . As the boat lay at the gangway she presented a spectacle that could be seen only in war , and rarely then , I imagine . There was a foot of water in her bottom , and in this rolled two dead men , terribly torn to pieces by ...
... tion . As the boat lay at the gangway she presented a spectacle that could be seen only in war , and rarely then , I imagine . There was a foot of water in her bottom , and in this rolled two dead men , terribly torn to pieces by ...
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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...