Memoirs of a Water Drinker, Volumes 1-2Saunders and Otley, 1837 - American fiction |
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... doctors , native or foreign , travelling through the land to teach elegant penmanship ) . He was taught to cipher as far as the rule of three ; and at the same time he learned to take care of the cattle , the horses and the sheep . He ...
... doctors , native or foreign , travelling through the land to teach elegant penmanship ) . He was taught to cipher as far as the rule of three ; and at the same time he learned to take care of the cattle , the horses and the sheep . He ...
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... doctor . " Poor Spiffard ! he felt as though all his misgivings and surmi- ses were realized . Hardly knowing what he did , the youth again attempted to kiss his sister , although her neglected ap- pearance little tempted him to the act ...
... doctor . " Poor Spiffard ! he felt as though all his misgivings and surmi- ses were realized . Hardly knowing what he did , the youth again attempted to kiss his sister , although her neglected ap- pearance little tempted him to the act ...
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... Doctor ? " " Murder's the matter ! murder ! You promised me that no one should be allowed to disturb the poor critter . I told you that all the chance she had from my medicine was by keeping her mind quiet ; and I told Dr. Chubs the ...
... Doctor ? " " Murder's the matter ! murder ! You promised me that no one should be allowed to disturb the poor critter . I told you that all the chance she had from my medicine was by keeping her mind quiet ; and I told Dr. Chubs the ...
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... doctor , and the hoarse croaking of the crow , to the cracked treble of goody Stubs , the nurse . The tumult ceased a little , as some of the out - criers saw that a stranger was present . " Have you no respect for my cloth ? " said the ...
... doctor , and the hoarse croaking of the crow , to the cracked treble of goody Stubs , the nurse . The tumult ceased a little , as some of the out - criers saw that a stranger was present . " Have you no respect for my cloth ? " said the ...
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... doctor having made a clear coast by putting the last of the vi- siters out , turned to the nurse , " Look ye , Mrs. Stubs , I gave you orders not to let that fellow and those women murder the person entrusted to your care , by ...
... doctor having made a clear coast by putting the last of the vi- siters out , turned to the nurse , " Look ye , Mrs. Stubs , I gave you orders not to let that fellow and those women murder the person entrusted to your care , by ...
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Page 3 - Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time : after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Page 83 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 45 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hushed in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 106 - Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently, For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
Page 73 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 45 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them...
Page 215 - Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time ; But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
Page 45 - Would to God a like spirit miylit diffuse, itself generally into the minds of the. people of this country! But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly, at its last session, for the abolition of Slavery ; but they could scarcely obtain a reading. To set the slaves afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience and mischief; but by degrees it certainly might and assuredly ought to be effected, and that, too, by legislative authority.
Page 73 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 159 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.