Lynn Haverhill, Or The Life of a Soldier, Volume 3

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J.F. Flook, 1838

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Página 72 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her waggon spokes made of long spinners...
Página 97 - If cold white mortals censure this great deed, Warn them, they judge not of superior beings, Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
Página 6 - ... came, him they crucified and slew. Ay, Josef Ben Melchor, it was your Talmud, your oral laws, your vain superstitions received from your fathers, that brought on our people blindness of heart, till they sinned that great sin which caused the sword to be drawn out after us, for two thousand years ; and for all that His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched forth still...
Página 206 - Valley they surrounded the overseer's house about four in the morning, in which finding all the White servants in bed, they butchered every one of them in the most savage manner, and literally drank their blood mixed with rum. At Esher, and other estates, they exhibited the same tragedy ; and then set fire to the buildings and canes.
Página 246 - Gouging is performed by twisting the forefinger in a lock of hair, near the temple, and turning the eye out of the socket with the thumb nail, which is suffered to grow long for that purpose (Lambert).
Página 328 - ... Senate, I had taken my resolution on the subject before the receipt of your letter. I have ever thought the task of judging to be among the hardest and Severest Duties, and I am the more unqualified for this particular Department as my practice in my profession has been altogether in the Courts of Law. It is my wish to spend the remainder of my days in Retirement from busy life, and in the exercise of such offices of Humanity as the Circle of my own neighbourhood may furnish occasion for, and...
Página 343 - Touchstone. Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect that it is not in the Court, it is tedious.
Página 349 - horse latitudes' being from 28 to 25 degrees south, when the simplest child about town know^s that horses have been found as far north as 69, and as far south as 71, and that horses of the gender known as sea-'orses, have been broke to the bit as far south as 102, 28 — that is, if Psalmanazar may be credited ? The author evidently is no scholard. ' Among' is very frequently amongst, proh pudor ! and ' while,' under his ruffian hand, becomes, heaven and earth ! whilst." 350 HAVERHILL. " It is not...
Página 350 - It is not a remarkably fine performance," says the Colossean Animalcule, (motto ' what a noise we make?' Fly on the Wheel,) price three farthings, and damned dear too. " The incidents are outre, and the language jejune ; and the hero — why, who cares about Wolfe, he has been dead seventy years? Give us passing incidents and living heroes — generals at the levee yesterday, and ladies shopping at Howell and James's no later than Saturday week.

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