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Page xviii
... Dominie Sampson , ' the reader may easily suppose that a poor modest humble scholar who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no uncommon personage in a country where a certain ...
... Dominie Sampson , ' the reader may easily suppose that a poor modest humble scholar who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no uncommon personage in a country where a certain ...
Page xix
... Dominie Sampson uses to Miss Bertram , and professed his determination not to leave her . Accordingly , roused to the exercise of talents which had long slumbered , he opened a little school and supported his patron's child for the rest ...
... Dominie Sampson uses to Miss Bertram , and professed his determination not to leave her . Accordingly , roused to the exercise of talents which had long slumbered , he opened a little school and supported his patron's child for the rest ...
Page 10
... Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon seriousness of disposition , the poor parents were encouraged to hope that their bairn , as they expressed it , ' might wag his pow in a ...
... Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon seriousness of disposition , the poor parents were encouraged to hope that their bairn , as they expressed it , ' might wag his pow in a ...
Page 11
... Dominie Sampson bore a disappoint- ment which supplied the whole town with a week's sport . It would be endless even to mention the numerous jokes to which it gave birth , from a ballad called ' Sampson's Riddle , ' written upon the ...
... Dominie Sampson bore a disappoint- ment which supplied the whole town with a week's sport . It would be endless even to mention the numerous jokes to which it gave birth , from a ballad called ' Sampson's Riddle , ' written upon the ...
Page 12
... Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the fire with some address . He attempted even to snuff the candles , but was unsuccessful , and relinquished that ...
... Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the fire with some address . He attempted even to snuff the candles , but was unsuccessful , and relinquished that ...
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