The Biglow Papers, Band 1John Camden Hotten, 1861 - 200 Seiten |
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... England ; Birdofredum Sawin , a volunteer in the Mexican army ; and the Reverend Homer Wilbur , an elderly gentleman , " with infinite faculty of sermonizing , muscularized by long practice " -a modern Parson Adams . The " Notices of an ...
... England ; Birdofredum Sawin , a volunteer in the Mexican army ; and the Reverend Homer Wilbur , an elderly gentleman , " with infinite faculty of sermonizing , muscularized by long practice " -a modern Parson Adams . The " Notices of an ...
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... England , in which phraseology these papers are written , the work is by far the most meritorious that has ever appeared . The peculiar colloquialisms , however , it is only just to add , though common enough in the rural districts of ...
... England , in which phraseology these papers are written , the work is by far the most meritorious that has ever appeared . The peculiar colloquialisms , however , it is only just to add , though common enough in the rural districts of ...
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... England was not so much the colony of a mother country , as a Hagar driven forth into the wilderness . The little self - exiled band which came hither in 1620 came , not to seek gold , but to found a democracy . They came that they ...
... England was not so much the colony of a mother country , as a Hagar driven forth into the wilderness . The little self - exiled band which came hither in 1620 came , not to seek gold , but to found a democracy . They came that they ...
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... England , and local there , were brought from the mother - country . A person familiar with the dialect of certain portions of Massachusetts will not fail to recognise , in ordinary discourse , many words 12 INTRODUCTION .
... England , and local there , were brought from the mother - country . A person familiar with the dialect of certain portions of Massachusetts will not fail to recognise , in ordinary discourse , many words 12 INTRODUCTION .
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... England Israel , Dr. Benjamin Colman , who , as we are told in Turell's life of him , when the vessel in which he had taken passage for Eng . land was attacked by a French privateer , " fought like a philosopher and a Christian , and ...
... England Israel , Dr. Benjamin Colman , who , as we are told in Turell's life of him , when the vessel in which he had taken passage for Eng . land was attacked by a French privateer , " fought like a philosopher and a Christian , and ...
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Seite 70 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Seite 58 - 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 100 - I du believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal An' in the traces lead 'em; Palsied the arm thet forges yokes At my fat contracts squintin', An' withered be the nose thet pokes Inter the gov'ment printin'!
Seite 101 - I du believe thet all o' me Doth bear his superscription, — Will, conscience, honor, honesty, An' things o' thet description. I du believe in prayer an' praise To him thet hez the grantin' O' jobs, — in every thin' thet pays, But most of all in CANTIN' ; This doth my cup with marcies fill, This lays all thought o' sin to rest, I don't believe in princerple, But O, I du in interest.
Seite 28 - Haint they cut a thunderin' swarth (Helped by Yankee renegaders), Thru the vartu o' the North ! We begin to think it 's nater To take sarse an' not be riled; — jo Who 'd expect to see a tater All on eend at bein' biled ? Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an...
Seite 34 - 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' their own; '*> Let our dear old Bay State proudly Put the trumpet to her mouth, Let her ring this messidge loudly In the ears of all the South : — "I '11 return ye good fer evil Much ez we frail mortils can, But I wun't go help the Devil Makin...
Seite 98 - s wal enough agin a king To dror resolves an' triggers, — But libbaty 'sa kind o' thing Thet don't agree with niggers. I du believe the people want A tax on teas an...
Seite 26 - ... em as i hoop you will Be, and said they wuz True grit. Hosea ses taint hardly fair to call 'em hisn now, cos the parson kind o...
Seite 26 - ... eenamost enuf brass a bobbin up and down on his shoulders and figureed onto his coat and trousis, let alone wut nater hed sot in his featers, to make a 6 pounder out on. wal, Hosea he com home considerabal riled, and arter I 'd gone to bed I heern Him a thrashin round like a short-tailed Bull in fli-time.