The Biglow PapersHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 198 Seiten |
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Seite 108
... Calhoun , who is made the chief speaker in this burlesque , seems to think that the light of the nine- teenth century is to be put out as soon as he tinkles his little cow - bell curfew . Whenever slavery is touched , he sets up his ...
... Calhoun , who is made the chief speaker in this burlesque , seems to think that the light of the nine- teenth century is to be put out as soon as he tinkles his little cow - bell curfew . Whenever slavery is touched , he sets up his ...
Seite 109
... Calhoun cannot let go the apron - string of the Past . The Past is a good nurse , but we must be weaned from her sooner or later , even though , like Plotinus , we should run home from school to ask the breast , after we are tolerably ...
... Calhoun cannot let go the apron - string of the Past . The Past is a good nurse , but we must be weaned from her sooner or later , even though , like Plotinus , we should run home from school to ask the breast , after we are tolerably ...
Seite 110
... Calhoun letting slip his pack - thread cable with a crooked pin at the end of it to anchor South Carolina upon the bank and shoal of the Past . — H. W. ] TO MR . BUCKENAM . MR . EDITER , As i wuz kinder prunin round , in a little nussry ...
... Calhoun letting slip his pack - thread cable with a crooked pin at the end of it to anchor South Carolina upon the bank and shoal of the Past . — H. W. ] TO MR . BUCKENAM . MR . EDITER , As i wuz kinder prunin round , in a little nussry ...
Seite 111
... Calhoun , sez he ; " Human rights haint no more Right to come on this floor , No more ' n the man in the moon , " sez he . " The North haint no kind o ' bisness with nothin ' , An ' you ' ve no idee how much bother it saves ; We aint ...
... Calhoun , sez he ; " Human rights haint no more Right to come on this floor , No more ' n the man in the moon , " sez he . " The North haint no kind o ' bisness with nothin ' , An ' you ' ve no idee how much bother it saves ; We aint ...
Seite 112
... Calhoun , sez he ; " Fer all thet , " sez Mangum , " " T would be better to hang ' em , An ' so get red on ' em soon , " sez he . " The mass ough ' to labor an ' we lay on soffies , Thet ' s the reason I want to spread Freedom's aree ...
... Calhoun , sez he ; " Fer all thet , " sez Mangum , " " T would be better to hang ' em , An ' so get red on ' em soon , " sez he . " The mass ough ' to labor an ' we lay on soffies , Thet ' s the reason I want to spread Freedom's aree ...
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Seite 80 - Polk, you know, he is our country. An' the angel thet writes all our sins in a book Puts the debit to him, an' to us the per contry; An' John P. Robinson he Sez this is his view o
Seite 55 - Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
Seite 60 - V thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it.
Seite 59 - Is our dooty in this fix, They 'd ha' done 't ez quick ez winkin' In the days o' seventy-six. Clang the bells in every steeple, Call all true men to disown The tradoocers of our people, The enslavers o...
Seite 122 - I du believe in special ways O' prayin' an' convartin'; The bread comes back in many days, An' buttered, tu, fer sartin ; I mean in preyin' till one busts On wut the party chooses, An' in convartin' public trusts To very privit uses.
Seite 56 - To abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An' to plunder ye like sin. Ain't it cute to see a Yankee Take sech everlastin' pains, All to git the Devil's thankee Helpin' on 'em weld their chains ? Wy, it's jest ez clear ez figgers, Clear ez one an' one make two, Chaps thet make black slaves o' niggers Want to make wite slaves o
Seite 94 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Seite 79 - B. is a sensible man; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks; He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes; — But John P.
Seite 26 - A person familiar with the dialect of certain portions of Massachusetts will not fail to recognize, in ordinary discourse, many words now noted in English vocabularies as archaic, the greater part of which were in common use about the time of the King James translation of the Bible. Shakespeare stands less in need of a glossary to most New Englanders than to many a native of the Old Country.
Seite 52 - Our Hosea wuz down to Boston last week, and he see a cruetin Sarjunt a struttin round as popler as a hen with 1 chicking, with 2 fellers a drummin and fifin arter him like all nater. the sarjunt he thout Hosea...