Recollections of a Lifetime: Or Men and Things I Have Seen ; in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend ; Historical, Biographical, Anecdotical, and Descriptive, Volumen 1Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1856 - 542 páginas |
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... settle upon your nose and disturb your morning nap or your afternoon siesta ; no elvish mosquitoes invade the sanctity of your sleep , and force you to listen to their detestable serenade , and then make you pay for it , as if you had ...
... settle upon your nose and disturb your morning nap or your afternoon siesta ; no elvish mosquitoes invade the sanctity of your sleep , and force you to listen to their detestable serenade , and then make you pay for it , as if you had ...
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... settled in life . All but two of the latter are still living . My father's annual salary for the first twenty - five years , and during his minis- try at Ridgefield , averaged £ 120 , old currency - that is , about four hundred dollars ...
... settled in life . All but two of the latter are still living . My father's annual salary for the first twenty - five years , and during his minis- try at Ridgefield , averaged £ 120 , old currency - that is , about four hundred dollars ...
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... settled by a sturdy race of men , mostly the immediate descendants of English emigrants , some from Norwalk and some from Milford . Their migration over an intervening space of savage hills , rocks , and ravines , into a ter- ritory so ...
... settled by a sturdy race of men , mostly the immediate descendants of English emigrants , some from Norwalk and some from Milford . Their migration over an intervening space of savage hills , rocks , and ravines , into a ter- ritory so ...
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... settled in the public mind . We raised our own flax , rotted it , hackled it , dressed it , and spun it . The little wheel , turned by the foot , had its place , and was as familiar as if it had been a member of the family . How often ...
... settled in the public mind . We raised our own flax , rotted it , hackled it , dressed it , and spun it . The little wheel , turned by the foot , had its place , and was as familiar as if it had been a member of the family . How often ...
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... settled down , and keeping his shop . He was one of our near neigh- bors , and the sound of his lapstone , early and late , was as regular as the tides . His son Sammy was his apprentice , and having a turn for mirth and music ...
... settled down , and keeping his shop . He was one of our near neigh- bors , and the sound of his lapstone , early and late , was as regular as the tides . His son Sammy was his apprentice , and having a turn for mirth and music ...
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Página 157 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 97 - ... revolutionary war, shrunk from no danger, no toil, no sacrifice, to serve his country, and to raise his children to a condition better than his own, may my name and the name of my posterity be blotted forever from the memory of mankind ! [Mr.
Página 44 - The next step of my progress which is marked in my memory, is the spelling of words of two syllables. I did not go very regularly to school, but by the time I was ten years old I had learned to write, and had made a little progress in arithmetic. There was not a grammar, a geography, or a history of any kind in the school.
Página 319 - ... religious, virtuous in their habits of thought and conduct. I make allowance for the sinister influence of vice, which abounds in some places ; for the debasing effects of demagogism in our politicians ; for the corruption of selfish and degrading interests, cast into the general current of public feeling and opinion. I admit that these sometimes make the nation swerve, for a time, from the path of wisdom, but the wandering is neither wide nor long. The preponderating national mind is just and...
Página 206 - Carolina mimicked them out of derision and soon was seized with them himself, (which was the case with many others) he grew ashamed, and on attempting to mount his horse to go off, his foot jerked about so, that he could not put it into the stirrup; some youngsters seeing this, assisted him on, but he jerked so that he could not sit alone, and one got up to hold him on; which was done with difficulty: I observing this, went to him and asked him what he thought of it? said he, 'I believe God sent...
Página 425 - And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for a little life, and made a flame Which was a mockery; then they lifted up Their eyes, as it grew lighter, and beheld Each other's aspects - saw, and shriek'd, and died Even of their mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose brow Famine had written Fiend.
Página 168 - Gaffer Ginger, Goody Two Shoes, and some of the rhymes and jingles, now collected under the name of Mother Goose, — with perhaps a few other toy books of that day. These were a revelation. Of course I read them, but I must add with no real relish.
Página 89 - Even the young approached a book with reverence, and a newspaper with awe. How the world has changed ! The two great festivals were Thanksgiving and " Training-day ;" the latter deriving, from the still lingering spirit of the revolutionary war, a decidedly martial character. The marching of the troops, and the discharge of gunpowder, which invariably closed the exercises, were glorious and inspiring mementoes of heroic achievements upon many a bloody field. The music of the drum and fife resounded...
Página 529 - ... and which, without at all lessening the freedom of social intercourse, made every one feel that he was not a man with whom liberties could be taken. He could play with a subject, when he chose, in a desultory manner, but he preferred, like Johnson, to
Página 205 - Again, the wicked are frequently more afraid of it than the smallpox or yellow fever; these are subject to it; but the persecutors are more subject to it than any, and they sometimes have cursed, and swore, and damned it, whilst jerking: there is no pain attending the jerks except they resist it, which if they do, it will weary them more in an hour, than a day's labour; which shows, that it requires the consent of the will to avoid suffering.