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... course , I know most . By the way , -add a note to the reader , that he is at liberty to borrow as much wit , as he pleases , from the book , and to spend it liberally among those friends at whose houses he is most frequently invited to ...
... course , I know most . By the way , -add a note to the reader , that he is at liberty to borrow as much wit , as he pleases , from the book , and to spend it liberally among those friends at whose houses he is most frequently invited to ...
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... , that in a few days I was admitted into Mr. Simp- kins's office ; and in due course of time , uncle Christopher consented to my signing articles of clerkship to the worthy attorney , for the accus- tomed IN AMERICA . 17.
... , that in a few days I was admitted into Mr. Simp- kins's office ; and in due course of time , uncle Christopher consented to my signing articles of clerkship to the worthy attorney , for the accus- tomed IN AMERICA . 17.
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... course , I fell in love with Miss Felicia , and I had reason to believe that she returned my affection . At least , I used to be her beau to church , and we sometimes walked out to- gether in the summer evenings . Once or twice , when ...
... course , I fell in love with Miss Felicia , and I had reason to believe that she returned my affection . At least , I used to be her beau to church , and we sometimes walked out to- gether in the summer evenings . Once or twice , when ...
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... course of one morning , was I lugged into two actions at law , and a chancery suit ! But my troubles were not to end there . I could see , by my landlady's face , that she had something dismal to communicate . She had evi- dently been ...
... course of one morning , was I lugged into two actions at law , and a chancery suit ! But my troubles were not to end there . I could see , by my landlady's face , that she had something dismal to communicate . She had evi- dently been ...
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... course , I don't speak of mercantile people . Washington Irving , indeed , made the American character ex- tremely popular for a time . John Bull believed he had done his young relative injustice ; —and John , who is , after all , in ...
... course , I don't speak of mercantile people . Washington Irving , indeed , made the American character ex- tremely popular for a time . John Bull believed he had done his young relative injustice ; —and John , who is , after all , in ...
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Sayings and Doings in America [Signed Costard Sly] Costard Sly (Pseud ) Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Sayings and Doings in America [Signed Costard Sly] Costard Sly (Pseud ) Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Sayings and Doings in America [Signed Costard Sly] Costard Sly (Pseud ) Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abel Simpkins acquaintance Alexander Comfit Almira Elizabeth BARNWELL Basil Hall beautiful believe blushed Boston CAPT Captain cerebellum Charles Alleyne cholera Cicero CONTI COSTARD SLY Count cried d'ye dear delighted devil doctor door Edmund Sanderson Emily Enfield England eyes father feel fellow FENWICK GAULTIMAN gentle gentleman give glass hand happy head hear heard Jack Adams LAST DOLLAR laughing leyne litel look madam married matter mind Miss Arabella Miss Felicia Miss Jane Dawe Miss Powell morning Mudfort never night noise Norfolk House obliged PARKENRATH perhaps person poor pretty racter RAGUSAN recollect returned shake smile Somerville soon Sophia speak Spokelford stairs sure talking tell There's no mistake thing thought told TREMONT HOUSE uncle walked WALSINGHAM WARING Washington Irving whisper widow Jones William Lauder wine woman word young lady
Pasajes populares
Página 195 - Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured; bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as, What is all this worth...
Página 237 - I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme ; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Página 195 - I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Página 225 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 240 - ... that justice must not be wholly superseded even by benignant mercy? Is not our new President right in saying that, in the present position of this nation, indulgence to leading traitors may be cruelty to the state? For one, sir, I must confess a mortal repugnance to bloody revenge, and I believe the worst use you can make of a man is to hang him.
Página 264 - BELIEVE me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, Like fairy-gifts fading away, Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will. And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still.
Página 190 - Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained; but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; they may effectually resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer.
Página 190 - ... happy issue. From what has been said, I think I may lay it down as a maxim, that every man of good common sense may, if he pleases, in his particular station of life, most certainly be rich. The reason why we sometimes see...
Página 59 - The strongest bond of union amongItalians is only a coincidence of hatred. Never were the Tuscans so unanimous as in hating the other states of Italy ; the Senesi agreed best in hating all the other Tuscans ; the citizens of Siena, in hating the rest of the Senesi ; and in the city itself the same amiable passion was subdivided among the different wards.
Página 204 - Wilkie's memory could scarcely furnish him with prettier scenes than the following sketches. The first is an invitation sent across the Atlantic to his American relative. ' You are now almost a stranger in your native land. Twenty-three years form a large portion of life ; and so long you have been absent from Britain, and suffering the scorching beams and the numbing colds of the atmosphere of Virginia. Do not you think you should relish a sight of your old friends, and of the scenes of your infancy?...