 | William Edward Dunn - 1836 - 316 páginas
...more. I commenced with horses, and ran several from the adjoining counties. I had got assc« ciated with a young man who had professed to be a preacher...guilty, and whipped. During my confinement I read the scriptares, and became a good judge of theology. I had not neglected the criminal laws for many years... | |
 | 1888 - 1032 páginas
...grease. I took my first lessons in divinity from this preacher. He was highly respected by all that knew him, and well calculated to please. He first...taken, and was imprisoned for near three years. I had shifted it from court to court, but I was at last found guilty, and whipped. During my confinement... | |
 | John M. Keating - 1888 - 396 páginas
...was. He was as slick on the tongue as goose grease. I took my first lessons in divinity from him, and he first put me in the notion of preaching, to aid...about a mare that I had taken, and was imprisoned about three years. I shifted it from court to court, but was at last found guilty and whipped. During... | |
 | Emerson Hough - 1907 - 1208 páginas
...suspicious personages. It was rather squally times, but any port in a storm; we took the negro that night to the bank of a creek which runs by the farm of our...preaching, to aid me in my speculations. "I got into difficulty about a mare that I had taken, and was imprisoned for near three years. I shifted it from... | |
 | Emerson Hough - 1907 - 426 páginas
...sharper he was; he was as slick on the tongue as goose-grease. I took my first lessons The Outlaw 55 in divinity from this young preacher. He was highly...preaching, to aid me in my speculations. "I got into difficulty about a mare that I had taken, and was imprisoned for near three years. I shifted it from... | |
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I commenced with horses, and ran several from the adjoining counties. I had got associated with a young man who had professed to be a preacher among the Methodists, and a sharper he was; he was as slick on the tongue as goose-grease. I took my first lessons... 