The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West, Band 2D. Appleton & Company, 1843 |
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... matter , in capitals of german text , with heads and tails curled and crankled and interlaced , so as nearly to bewilder the reader about the meaning ! And yet , so adroitly was this word contrived , that if one pertinaciously and ...
... matter , in capitals of german text , with heads and tails curled and crankled and interlaced , so as nearly to bewilder the reader about the meaning ! And yet , so adroitly was this word contrived , that if one pertinaciously and ...
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... matters , was no mean per- former on the violin ; and on one occasion , at a private concert at my house , forgetting his usual caution , he en- tertained me with an anecdote about his fiddle and his Bishop . For be it known , that like ...
... matters , was no mean per- former on the violin ; and on one occasion , at a private concert at my house , forgetting his usual caution , he en- tertained me with an anecdote about his fiddle and his Bishop . For be it known , that like ...
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... matters here done in pri- vate were with us then done in public , -this of course being conducive to the perfection of the fine arts . And hence it is not surprising that Allheart , profiting by the endless remarks and suggestions of ...
... matters here done in pri- vate were with us then done in public , -this of course being conducive to the perfection of the fine arts . And hence it is not surprising that Allheart , profiting by the endless remarks and suggestions of ...
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... matter was found to have been overlooked - the effect on our risibility . For when the two cousins of Simongosoftly began a gentle stir of mur- muring lips , and both found , in despite of keen ears , that articulate language must be ...
... matter was found to have been overlooked - the effect on our risibility . For when the two cousins of Simongosoftly began a gentle stir of mur- muring lips , and both found , in despite of keen ears , that articulate language must be ...
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... matters were so ancient that we seemed to have come among aboriginal Egyptians or Greeks . The carts or wagons were like the wain of Ceres , and moved on spoke- less wheels of solid wood , without naves , and , if circum- ference ...
... matters were so ancient that we seemed to have come among aboriginal Egyptians or Greeks . The carts or wagons were like the wain of Ceres , and moved on spoke- less wheels of solid wood , without naves , and , if circum- ference ...
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agin ain't Allheart Aunt Kitty better Bloduplex Board boys burnt cabin cabin Carlton CHAPTER Christian Clarence College dark dear Doctor Domore door eyes Faculty Fairplay fear feet feller fiddle folks followed forest gentlemen girls Glenville grand gwyin hand Harwood head hear heard heart hence honour Hoosier horse horse-fly hour John Angell James John Calvin Judas Iscariot King Sol ladies larn laugh learning live look meeting miles Miss Mizraim morning never night once party phrenology pigeons poor powerful prairie preacher President Professor Purchase reached reader ready religious river Robert Dale Owen seated seemed solemn soon sort spirit squatter stood Sylvan tail teetotally tell thar thare thicket things Thorntree tion trees Trustees Uncle John voice wagon what's whole wild windsor chair woods Woodville yards young
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Seite 3 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Seite 224 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Seite 312 - Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Seite 111 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Seite 192 - YOU'D scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public, on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by.
Seite 285 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Seite 170 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news, Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent : Another lean, unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death.
Seite 1 - Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth Our rugged pass to death ; to break those bars Of terror and abhorrence Nature throws Cross our obstructed way, and thus to make Welcome, as safe, our port from every storm.