 I am the chief person of the municipality, and exhibit, moreover, an admirable pattern to my brother officers, by the cool, steady, upright, downright, and impartial discharge of my business, and the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Página 422editado por - 1837Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 páginas
...the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, .nobody seeks me in vain ; for, ail day long, I am seen at the busiest corner, just above...stretching out my arms, to rich and poor alike ; and at rJght, I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I am, and keep people out of the gutters.... | |
 | 1840 - 516 páginas
...business, and the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain; for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest corner,...cupbearer to the parched populace, for whose benefit an iron goblet is chained to my waist. Like a dram seller on the mall at muster day, I cry aloud to all... | |
 | George Merriam - 1841 - 308 páginas
...business, and the con stancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain ; for all day long I am seen at the busiest corner,...arms to rich and poor alike; and at night I hold a Ianthorn over my head, both to show where I am, and keep, people out of the gutters. 4. At this sultry... | |
 | John D. Post - 1842 - 314 páginas
...business,? and the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain ; for all day long I am seen at the busiest corner,...market, stretching out my arms, to rich and poor alike ;d and at night I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I am, and keep people out of the... | |
 | William Horsell - 1845 - 262 páginas
...duties, and the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain : for, all day long I am seen at the busiest corner,...cupbearer to the parched populace, for whose benefit an iron goblet is chained to my waist. I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents, and at the... | |
 | 1744 - 596 páginas
...post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain; for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest coiner, just above the market, stretching out my arms to rich...cupbearer to the parched populace, for whose benefit an iron goblet is chained to my waist. Like a dram-seller on the mall at muster day, I cry aloud to all... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 272 páginas
...been with your eapacity for Shakspeare, or you are a truant and an idler. — John Wilson. [Rom. 2.] At night, I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I um, and to keep people out of the gutters. — Hawthorne. He was neither sustained in his independent... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 páginas
...business, and the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain; for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest corner,...cupbearer to the parched populace, for whose benefit an iron goblet is chained to my waist. Like a dramseller on the mall, at muster-day, I cry aloud to all... | |
 | 1848 - 1292 páginas
...duties, and the constancy with which I stand to iny post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain ; for all day long I am seen at the busiest corner,...cupbearer to the parched populace, for whose benefit an iron goblet is chained to my waist. I i-ry ;iloiul to all and suudry in my plainot accents, and at... | |
 | 1856 - 666 páginas
...duties, and the constancy i with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain ; for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest corner,...cup-bearer to the parched populace, for whose benefit an iron goblet is chained to my waist. I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents, and at the... | |
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