Prose,Abraham Small. William Brown, printer, 1824 |
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Page 21
... body. At two o'clock we arrived at Booth-Ferry. Here we dined, — but I can make nothing of the dinner in my journal, because it was a good one ; had it been otherwise, I might have occupied a page with invective, — for there is no ...
... body. At two o'clock we arrived at Booth-Ferry. Here we dined, — but I can make nothing of the dinner in my journal, because it was a good one ; had it been otherwise, I might have occupied a page with invective, — for there is no ...
Page 25
... body, reciprocally affecting each other, is sensible to wretchedness alone, — and wretchedness so strange, that men of sound mind and healthful fibre can form no conception of it. If I had committed a crime for which I was fleeing my ...
... body, reciprocally affecting each other, is sensible to wretchedness alone, — and wretchedness so strange, that men of sound mind and healthful fibre can form no conception of it. If I had committed a crime for which I was fleeing my ...
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... of the foregoing narrative of my adventures in the stage-coach hither. In the course of the forenoon, when 1 was as tired of writing as any body could be of reading what I had written, I walked up to the Lancas 28 MY JOURNAL.
... of the foregoing narrative of my adventures in the stage-coach hither. In the course of the forenoon, when 1 was as tired of writing as any body could be of reading what I had written, I walked up to the Lancas 28 MY JOURNAL.
Page 39
... body since the days of Sultan : I forget his name, — I will try to translate his namby-pamby. # » ' * * * • Here I began, but bungled so miserably in the three first lines, — the whole song consisted of only four, that I will proceed no ...
... body since the days of Sultan : I forget his name, — I will try to translate his namby-pamby. # » ' * * * • Here I began, but bungled so miserably in the three first lines, — the whole song consisted of only four, that I will proceed no ...
Page 51
... body should suspect that you had been so silly as to gather such rubbish. Two or three, however, are deemed worthy of being put to the test of her husband's polishing apparatus; these she keeps, and bids you call again the day after to ...
... body should suspect that you had been so silly as to gather such rubbish. Two or three, however, are deemed worthy of being put to the test of her husband's polishing apparatus; these she keeps, and bids you call again the day after to ...
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