Our Boys and Girls, Volumes 3-4Oliver Optic Lee and Shepard, 1868 |
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... wife ; and there she staid for fifteen years . During all this time her father and mother never came once to see her . They sent some one every year to inquire about her , and also sent a small sum of money to pay her expenses ; but ...
... wife ; and there she staid for fifteen years . During all this time her father and mother never came once to see her . They sent some one every year to inquire about her , and also sent a small sum of money to pay her expenses ; but ...
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... wife was about to close the trunk , the window was opened violently , and the fairy Powerful came in . " So you are going to the court of the king , your father , are you , Rosette ? " she said . " Yes , my dear godmother , ” was the ...
... wife was about to close the trunk , the window was opened violently , and the fairy Powerful came in . " So you are going to the court of the king , your father , are you , Rosette ? " she said . " Yes , my dear godmother , ” was the ...
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... WIFE will ENATION , in reference to his future | stand ** LONE and ' DELIGHTED , like a dried - up VELOCITY and reverberating ' MO- MULLEIN - STALK in a sheep - pasture . MENTUM . Such is your " SEDATIVE and ' STIM- ULATING character ...
... WIFE will ENATION , in reference to his future | stand ** LONE and ' DELIGHTED , like a dried - up VELOCITY and reverberating ' MO- MULLEIN - STALK in a sheep - pasture . MENTUM . Such is your " SEDATIVE and ' STIM- ULATING character ...
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... wife . He had not told her that he had four thousand dollars in gold in the house , for he feared that she might be tempted to rob him of his treas- Mrs. Fairfield , therefore , did not com- prehend his despairing utterances when he an ...
... wife . He had not told her that he had four thousand dollars in gold in the house , for he feared that she might be tempted to rob him of his treas- Mrs. Fairfield , therefore , did not com- prehend his despairing utterances when he an ...
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... wife says ' tain't so , because the boy has all the money he wants , and don't have no occasion to steal ; but Levi hain't no more idee of the vally of money than he has of flyin ' , and he throws it away as reckless as a sailor arter ...
... wife says ' tain't so , because the boy has all the money he wants , and don't have no occasion to steal ; but Levi hain't no more idee of the vally of money than he has of flyin ' , and he throws it away as reckless as a sailor arter ...
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Page 396 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts. She needs none. There she is; behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, and there they will remain forever.
Page 44 - Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? — Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. "The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid ; And the young and the old, and the low and the high. Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie.
Page 45 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Page 44 - The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne ; The brow of the priest that the mitre hath worn ; The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave, Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave.
Page 76 - DONE? Has he 'COMPLETELY * DONE? He was unparliamentary from the "BEGINNING to the 'END of his speech. There was scarce a 'WORD he uttered that was not a 'VIOLATION of the privileges of the house. But I did not call him to ORDER. 'WHY? Because the limited 'TALENTS of some men render it IMPOSSIBLE for them to be "SEVERE without being «UNPARLIAMENTARY. But before I sit down, I shall show him HOW to be SEVERE and PARLIAMENTARY at the same time.
Page 397 - And, sir, where American Liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit If discord and disunion shall wound...
Page 315 - Those joyous hours are past away ; And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone ; That tuneful peal will still ring on, While other bards shall walk these dells, And sing your praise...
Page 396 - Sir, let me recur to pleasing recollections ; let me indulge in refreshing remembrance of the past ; let me remind you that, in early times, no States cherished greater harmony, both of principle and feeling, than Massachusetts and South Carolina. Would to God that harmony might again return ! Shoulder to shoulder they went through the Revolution, hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support.
Page 173 - I call upon you, fathers, by the shades of your ancestors, by the dear ashes which repose in this precious soil, by all you are, and all you hope to be ; resist every...
Page 44 - So the multitude goes — like the flower or the weed That withers away to let others succeed ; So the multitude comes — even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told.