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Page 84
... father carried on his trade in Brown's Row , Chelsea . His business was a very good one - what we call a good shoeing trade , principally with the omnibus horses . It paid very well , for my father had four men in his shop ; though , if ...
... father carried on his trade in Brown's Row , Chelsea . His business was a very good one - what we call a good shoeing trade , principally with the omnibus horses . It paid very well , for my father had four men in his shop ; though , if ...
Page 85
... father used to go on with his work . But if I was silent , and in that way let father know that it was one of our own little ones , he would begin to roar out , and want to know which it was , and what he'd been up to . To which I would ...
... father used to go on with his work . But if I was silent , and in that way let father know that it was one of our own little ones , he would begin to roar out , and want to know which it was , and what he'd been up to . To which I would ...
Page 86
... father . and mother . Even when a mere boy , I began dimly to understand that it was fortunate that Joe was good - tem- pered . When I and the other boys . would be at rounders , and he would be looking intently and eagerly on , with ...
... father . and mother . Even when a mere boy , I began dimly to understand that it was fortunate that Joe was good - tem- pered . When I and the other boys . would be at rounders , and he would be looking intently and eagerly on , with ...
Page 87
... father was going to let all the upper part in lodgings , and Cousin Reuben CHAPTER III . JAMES BURTON'S STORY ... father's face ; and , we being simple and affectionate people , that shade had been reflected on ours , though we hardly ...
... father was going to let all the upper part in lodgings , and Cousin Reuben CHAPTER III . JAMES BURTON'S STORY ... father's face ; and , we being simple and affectionate people , that shade had been reflected on ours , though we hardly ...
Page 88
... father's face clouded when he spoke of him . That birthday night I was sleepily going up to bed , when my father stopped me by saying , " Old man , you and me must have a talk , " whereupon my mo- ther departed . " Jim , " said he as ...
... father's face clouded when he spoke of him . That birthday night I was sleepily going up to bed , when my father stopped me by saying , " Old man , you and me must have a talk , " whereupon my mo- ther departed . " Jim , " said he as ...
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Page 263 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Page 239 - Still, thro' the rattle, parts of speech were rife : While he could stammer He settled Hoti's business— let it be ! — Properly based Oun — Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De, Dead from the waist down.
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Page 520 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian ; and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Page 368 - Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on Round the old tree.
Page 367 - For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice.
Page 367 - We are puppets, Man in his pride, and Beauty fair in her flower ; Do we move ourselves, or are moved by an unseen hand at a game That pushes us off from the board, and others ever succeed ? Ah yet, we cannot be kind to each other here for an hour ; We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame ; However we brave it out, we men are a little breed.
Page 272 - I have given instructions to those officers, to whom it belongs, to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons who shall, within the cognizance of the courts of the United States, violate the law of nations, with respect to the powers at war, or any of them.
Page 355 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself ; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Page 143 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of Winter I mourn ; Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save.