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... Carried to College . - A REMINISCENCE AT FORTY- PICTURES OF RURAL LIFE , . CHAPTER XII . Sir John Franklin . - HEROISM ON THE GREAT DEEP - A MARTYR OF THE POLAR SEA , · CHAPTER XIII . Elizabeth Estaugh . - A QUAKER COURTSHIP IN WHICH ...
... Carried to College . - A REMINISCENCE AT FORTY- PICTURES OF RURAL LIFE , . CHAPTER XII . Sir John Franklin . - HEROISM ON THE GREAT DEEP - A MARTYR OF THE POLAR SEA , · CHAPTER XIII . Elizabeth Estaugh . - A QUAKER COURTSHIP IN WHICH ...
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... carried on , in spite of all obstacles , the process of self - education through books and observa- tion , and become in literature and science , as well as in the practical affairs of every - day life , the best informed man in America ...
... carried on , in spite of all obstacles , the process of self - education through books and observa- tion , and become in literature and science , as well as in the practical affairs of every - day life , the best informed man in America ...
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... carried from step to step , and from one degree to another , to endure that which we at first think impossible . " In 1778 her husband went as one of the commissioners to France . During his absence Mrs. Adams managed , as she had often ...
... carried from step to step , and from one degree to another , to endure that which we at first think impossible . " In 1778 her husband went as one of the commissioners to France . During his absence Mrs. Adams managed , as she had often ...
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... carrying a majority of the Republican party with him , who kept insisting , in the early stages of the conflict , that the ... carried the Republican party , which he had done . more than all other men to form , with him ; and within two ...
... carrying a majority of the Republican party with him , who kept insisting , in the early stages of the conflict , that the ... carried the Republican party , which he had done . more than all other men to form , with him ; and within two ...
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... carried them right back to sell to the men whose axes had cut down the trees . The South manufactured nothing except slaves . It was a great manufacture , that ; and the whole market of the North was bribed . The harness - makers , the ...
... carried them right back to sell to the men whose axes had cut down the trees . The South manufactured nothing except slaves . It was a great manufacture , that ; and the whole market of the North was bribed . The harness - makers , the ...
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Page 383 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Page 38 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad : for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Page 9 - What maintains one vice would bring up two children. You may think, perhaps, that a little tea or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no great matter: but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a little makes a mickle; and farther, Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship; and again, Who dainties love shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
Page 73 - And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine; A being, breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort; and command. And yet a spirit, still and bright With something of an angel light.
Page 6 - If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough...
Page 10 - He means, that perhaps the cheapness is apparent only, and not real ; or the bargain, by straitening thee in thy business, may do thee more harm than good. For in another place he says, Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths.
Page 73 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition , sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 190 - He shall not drop," said my uncle Toby, firmly. " A-well-o'day, do what we can for him," said Trim, maintaining his point ; " the poor soul will die." " He shall not die, by G — ," cried my uncle Toby. The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Page 5 - I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks; — "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to?
Page 6 - Friends," says he, and Neighbours, the Taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may...