Supplement to the Courant, Volumes 25-35John L. Boswell, 1862 |
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... head . John , who had probably a presentiment of what might happen , urged his wife and daughter to stay within doors , insisting that as the soldiers were , in all likelihood , in search of some other person , he should soon be able to ...
... head . John , who had probably a presentiment of what might happen , urged his wife and daughter to stay within doors , insisting that as the soldiers were , in all likelihood , in search of some other person , he should soon be able to ...
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... head of the government with the title of Consul . His first act was to write to England and Austria , imploring peace . Both governments contemptuously refused to heed his appeal . An Austrian army 150 , - 000 strong , was on the banks ...
... head of the government with the title of Consul . His first act was to write to England and Austria , imploring peace . Both governments contemptuously refused to heed his appeal . An Austrian army 150 , - 000 strong , was on the banks ...
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... head back in a hurry , I can assure you . I looked up the hill , but could see no one for the smoke , which was plenty , so I leveled in the direction of the enemy and fired - loaded again and fired . I got my rifle in readiness again ...
... head back in a hurry , I can assure you . I looked up the hill , but could see no one for the smoke , which was plenty , so I leveled in the direction of the enemy and fired - loaded again and fired . I got my rifle in readiness again ...
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... head up again . " Drown yourself ! - ( down he went ) -leave me to father the brats ! - ( another plunge ) -get drunk ! - ( another souse ) — and start for the river ! - ( another dip ) -I'll larn ye to leave me a widow , and all the ...
... head up again . " Drown yourself ! - ( down he went ) -leave me to father the brats ! - ( another plunge ) -get drunk ! - ( another souse ) — and start for the river ! - ( another dip ) -I'll larn ye to leave me a widow , and all the ...
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... head clerk of the extensive establishment of Auntley & Warner , and extremely consequential 17 man- ner . " This dressing gown we value at six dol- lars - you shall have it at five , as trade is dill to - day . " " Five dollars ...
... head clerk of the extensive establishment of Auntley & Warner , and extremely consequential 17 man- ner . " This dressing gown we value at six dol- lars - you shall have it at five , as trade is dill to - day . " " Five dollars ...
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Página 9 - To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright...
Página 9 - ... two great stones were brought before Powhatan; then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines. Pocahontas, the King's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death...
Página 16 - And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner, or whether it would ever know me at all, — at least, till I were in my grave.
Página 9 - That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O ! let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Página 7 - Is there any path by which I can come down and speak to you?" He looked up at me without replying, and I looked down at him without pressing him too soon with a repetition of my idle question. Just then there came a vague vibration in the earth and air, quickly changing into a violent pulsation, and an on-coming rush that caused me to start back, as though it had force to draw me down. When such...
Página 9 - ... pathway, that I did not like the red light, and that I should have slept but poorly if my bed had been under it, I see no reason to conceal. Nor did I like the two sequences of the accident and the dead girl. I see no reason to conceal that either. But what ran most in my thoughts was the consideration how ought I to act, having become the recipient of this disclosure?
Página 9 - At his entrance before the King, all the people gave a great shout. The Queene of Appamatuck was appointed to bring him water to wash his hands, and another brought him a bunch of feathers, instead of a towel to dry them.
Página 16 - ... with a still, small voice ; and forth I went, but found nothing in the world that I thought preferable to my old solitude till now. And now I begin to understand why I was imprisoned so many years in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars...
Página 16 - Here I sit in my old accustomed chamber, where I used to sit in days gone by. . . . Here I have written many tales, — many that have been burned to ashes, many that doubtless deserved the same fate. This claims to be called a haunted chamber, for thousands upon thousands of visions have appeared to me in it; and some few of them have become visible to the world. If ever I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was...
Página 9 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost...