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... John P. Robinson's , ' ' pious editors , ' and candidates " facin ' south - by - north " at home - ay , and if he is not conscious of his own individual propensity to the meannesses and duplicities of such , which come under the lash of ...
... John P. Robinson's , ' ' pious editors , ' and candidates " facin ' south - by - north " at home - ay , and if he is not conscious of his own individual propensity to the meannesses and duplicities of such , which come under the lash of ...
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... 1 See the English Edition of " Letters of Major Downing , " published by John Murray in 1835 , pp . 22 , 23 ; and Letters x . xi . xii . and xv . each and all . The man who reads the book ENGLISH EDITOR'S PREFACE . xiii.
... 1 See the English Edition of " Letters of Major Downing , " published by John Murray in 1835 , pp . 22 , 23 ; and Letters x . xi . xii . and xv . each and all . The man who reads the book ENGLISH EDITOR'S PREFACE . xiii.
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... John P Robinson he Sez they didnt know everythin ' down in Juddee . But England is a small and wealthy country , whose best defence against a neighbour , always likely to be- come a foe , consists in a mere ocean canal ; where the ...
... John P Robinson he Sez they didnt know everythin ' down in Juddee . But England is a small and wealthy country , whose best defence against a neighbour , always likely to be- come a foe , consists in a mere ocean canal ; where the ...
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... John , by at least a hundred years , to Naseby , Marston Moor , Worcester , and the time when , if ever , there were true Englishmen . John Bull has suffered the idea of the Invisible to be very much flattened out of him . Jonathan is ...
... John , by at least a hundred years , to Naseby , Marston Moor , Worcester , and the time when , if ever , there were true Englishmen . John Bull has suffered the idea of the Invisible to be very much flattened out of him . Jonathan is ...
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... John , you must make your fulcrum of solid beef and pudding ; an abstract idea will do for Jonathan . ** TO THE INDULGENT READER . My friend , the Rev. Mr. Wilbur , having been seized with a dangerous fit of illness , before this ...
... John , you must make your fulcrum of solid beef and pudding ; an abstract idea will do for Jonathan . ** TO THE INDULGENT READER . My friend , the Rev. Mr. Wilbur , having been seized with a dangerous fit of illness , before this ...
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Seite xxxvii - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Seite 66 - 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 69 - This lays all thought o' sin to rest, I don't believe in princerple, But O, I du in interest. I du believe in bein' this Or thet, ez it may happen One way or t'other hendiest is To ketch the people nappin' ; It aint by princerples nor men My preudunt course is steadied, — I scent wich pays the best, an...
Seite 43 - 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 4 - 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 132 - We may say, that to few mortals has it been granted to earn such a place in Universal History as Tyll : for now after five centuries, when Wallace's birthplace is unknown even to the Scots ; and the Admirable Crichton still more rapidly is grown a shadow ; and Edward Longshanks sleeps unregarded save by a few antiquarian English...
Seite xvi - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Seite 8 - 11 make ye act like freemen? Wut '11 git your dander riz? Come, I '11 tell ye wut I 'm thinkin' Is our dooty in this fix, They 'd ha' done 't ez quick ez winkin' In the days o
Seite xxi - Parson Wilbur sez he never heerd in his life Thet th' Apostles rigged out in their swaller-tail coats, An" marched round in front of a drum an' a fife, To git some on "em office, an' some on 'em votes; But John P.
Seite xvii - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.