The Biglow PapersHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 198 Seiten |
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... matter being in course of painful investigation . But , however this may be , I felt the omission the more keenly , as I had , in expectation of the new catalogue , enriched the library of the Jaalam Athe- næum with the old one then in ...
... matter being in course of painful investigation . But , however this may be , I felt the omission the more keenly , as I had , in expectation of the new catalogue , enriched the library of the Jaalam Athe- næum with the old one then in ...
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... matters may refer ( if he can find them ) to A Sermon preached on the Anniversary of the Dark Day ; An Artillery Election Sermon ; A Discourse on the Late Eclipse ; Dorcas , a Funeral Sermon on the Death of Madam Submit Tidd , Relict of ...
... matters may refer ( if he can find them ) to A Sermon preached on the Anniversary of the Dark Day ; An Artillery Election Sermon ; A Discourse on the Late Eclipse ; Dorcas , a Funeral Sermon on the Death of Madam Submit Tidd , Relict of ...
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... matter of his wart might be cited . Men generally more de- sirous of being improved in their portraits than characters . Shall probably find very unflattered likenesses of ourselves in Record- ing Angel's gallery . 30 INTRODUCTION .
... matter of his wart might be cited . Men generally more de- sirous of being improved in their portraits than characters . Shall probably find very unflattered likenesses of ourselves in Record- ing Angel's gallery . 30 INTRODUCTION .
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... it escaped my notice , nor failed to afford me matter of reflection , that , when a circus or a caravan is about to visit Jaalam , the initial step is to send forward large and highly ornamented bills of performance to be hung in the bar.
... it escaped my notice , nor failed to afford me matter of reflection , that , when a circus or a caravan is about to visit Jaalam , the initial step is to send forward large and highly ornamented bills of performance to be hung in the bar.
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... matter and the crush of worlds , may point with bewildering scorn of the punier efforts of enslaved Europe . . . . We hope soon to en- counter our author among those higher walks of literature in which he is evidently capable of ...
... matter and the crush of worlds , may point with bewildering scorn of the punier efforts of enslaved Europe . . . . We hope soon to en- counter our author among those higher walks of literature in which he is evidently capable of ...
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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...