The Biglow PapersTicknor and Fields, 1868 - 175 страница |
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... volume which no library , pretending to entire completeness , should fail to place upon its shelves . From the Higginbottomopolis Snapping - turtle . A collection of the merest balderdash and doggerel that it was ever our bad fortune to ...
... volume which no library , pretending to entire completeness , should fail to place upon its shelves . From the Higginbottomopolis Snapping - turtle . A collection of the merest balderdash and doggerel that it was ever our bad fortune to ...
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... volume , but the name of its respectable editor , the Rev. Mr. Wilbur , of Jaalam , will afford a sufficient guaranty for the worth of its contents ...... The paper is white , the type clear , and the volume of a convenient and attract ...
... volume , but the name of its respectable editor , the Rev. Mr. Wilbur , of Jaalam , will afford a sufficient guaranty for the worth of its contents ...... The paper is white , the type clear , and the volume of a convenient and attract ...
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... volumes of this or any age . We know of no English author who could have written it . It is a work to which the proud ... volume in bad grammar and worse taste ...... While the pieces here col- lected were confined to their appropriate ...
... volumes of this or any age . We know of no English author who could have written it . It is a work to which the proud ... volume in bad grammar and worse taste ...... While the pieces here col- lected were confined to their appropriate ...
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... volume , and ushered into the august pres- ence of the reading public by myself . So little are we short - sighted mortals able to predict the event ! I confess that there is to me a quite new satisfaction in being associated ( though ...
... volume , and ushered into the august pres- ence of the reading public by myself . So little are we short - sighted mortals able to predict the event ! I confess that there is to me a quite new satisfaction in being associated ( though ...
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... volume , those religious and godly - minded children ( those Samuels , if I may call them so ) of the brain must at first lie buried in an undis- tinguished heap , and then get such resurrection as is vouchsafed to them , mummy - wrapt ...
... volume , those religious and godly - minded children ( those Samuels , if I may call them so ) of the brain must at first lie buried in an undis- tinguished heap , and then get such resurrection as is vouchsafed to them , mummy - wrapt ...
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Страница 79 - I du believe thet all o' me Doth bear his souperscription, — • Will, conscience, honor, honesty, An' things o' thet description. I du believe in prayer an' praise To him thet hez the grantin' O' jobs, — in every thin' thet pays, But most of all in CANTIN' ; This doth my cup with marcies fill, This lays all thought o' sin to rest, — I don't believe in princerple, But, O, I du in interest.
Страница 48 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Страница 23 - A sort o' folks a chap could kill an' never dream on 't arter, No more 'na feller 'd dream o' pigs thet he hed hed to slarter ; I 'd an idee thet they were built arter the darkie fashion all, An
Страница 35 - Polk, you know, he is our country. An' the angel thet writes all our sins in a book Puts the debit to him, an' to us the per contry; An' John P. Robinson he Sez this is his view o
Страница 36 - Parson Wilbur sez he never heerd in his life Thet th' Apostles rigged out in their swaller-tail coats, An' marched round in front of a drum an' a fife, To git some on 'ern office, an' some on 'em votes, But John P.
Страница 8 - S'pose the crows wun't fall to pickin' All the carkiss from your bones, Coz you helped to give a lickin' To them poor half-Spanish drones ? Jest go home an...
Страница 67 - But keep all your spare breath fer coolin' your broth, Fer I oilers hev strove (at least thet 's my impression) To make cussed free with the rights o' the North," Sez John C. Calhoun, sez he ; — "Yes," sez Davis o' Miss., " The perfection o' bliss Is in skinnin' thet same old coon,
Страница 6 - An' go stick a feller thru, Guv'ment aint to answer for it, God '11 send the bill to you. Wut 's the use o' meetin-goin" Every Sabbath, wet or dry, Ef it 's right to go amowin
Страница 5 - Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
Страница 35 - s ben true to one party — an' thet is himself. So John P. Robinson he Sez he shall vote fer Gineral C. Gineral C. he goes in fer the war ; He don't vally principle more 'n an old cud ; Wut did God make us raytional creeturs fer, But glory an' gunpowder, plunder an