The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner, Volumen15American publishing Company, 1904 |
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... story of this particular period of his life was given by Warner in a work which was published about forty years later . It is the volume entitled " Being a Boy . " Nowhere has there been drawn a truer or more vivid picture of rural New ...
... story of this particular period of his life was given by Warner in a work which was published about forty years later . It is the volume entitled " Being a Boy . " Nowhere has there been drawn a truer or more vivid picture of rural New ...
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... story truly and sympathetically told . All who had the fortune to see Calvin in the flesh will recognize the accuracy with which his portrait was drawn . All who read the account of him , though not having seen him , will find it one of ...
... story truly and sympathetically told . All who had the fortune to see Calvin in the flesh will recognize the accuracy with which his portrait was drawn . All who read the account of him , though not having seen him , will find it one of ...
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... story - teller , who cannot fail to say something of interest because he has seen so much ; and who out of his wide and varied observation selects for recital certain sights he has witnessed , certain experiences he has gone through ...
... story - teller , who cannot fail to say something of interest because he has seen so much ; and who out of his wide and varied observation selects for recital certain sights he has witnessed , certain experiences he has gone through ...
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... story occurrences that might happen at a number of these places which were made the subjects of description . The principal characters were to take their tours under the personal conduct of the novelist . They were BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XXV.
... story occurrences that might happen at a number of these places which were made the subjects of description . The principal characters were to take their tours under the personal conduct of the novelist . They were BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XXV.
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... story of how a great fortune was made in the stock market ; in the second , how it was fraudulently diverted from the object for which it was intended ; and in the third , how it was most beneficially and satisfactorily lost . The scene ...
... story of how a great fortune was made in the stock market ; in the second , how it was fraudulently diverted from the object for which it was intended ; and in the third , how it was most beneficially and satisfactorily lost . The scene ...
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Página 92 - To understand political power aright, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
Página 381 - I am that merry wanderer of the night. I jest to Oberon, and make him smile When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, Neighing in likeness of a filly foal : And...
Página 325 - Day she was dressed in white Silk, bordered with Pearls of the Size of Beans, and over it a Mantle of black Silk, shot with Silver Threads; her Train was very long, the End of it borne by a Marchioness; instead of a Chain, she had an oblong Collar of Gold and Jewels.
Página 313 - One is the multitude of chimneys lately erected, whereas in their young days there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm (the religious houses and manor places of their lords always excepted, and peradventure some great personages), but each one made his fire against a reredos in the hall, where he dined and dressed his meat.
Página 353 - Italy, their forkes being for the most part made of yron or steele, and some of silver, but those are used only by gentlemen. The reason of this their curiosity is, because the Italian cannot by any means indure to have his dish touched with fingers, seeing all men's fingers are not alike cleane.
Página 355 - Slavery ; vastly fond of great Noises that fill the Ear, such as the firing of Cannon, Drums, and the ringing of Bells, so that it is common for a number of them, that have got a Glass in their Heads, to go up into some Belfry, and ring the Bells for Hours together, for the sake of Exercise.
Página 325 - ... next came the queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar) ; she had in her ears two pearls, with very rich drops ; she wore false hair, and that red...
Página 355 - They excel in dancing and music, for they are active and lively, though of a thicker make than the French ; they cut their hair close on the middle of the head, letting it grow on either side; they are good sailors, and better pirates, cunning, treacherous, and thievish ; above 300 are said to be hanged annually at London.
Página 390 - Staple, wherein the age may see her own folly, or hunger and thirst after published pamphlets of news, set out every Saturday, but made all at home, and no syllable of truth in them : than which there cannot be a greater disease in nature, or a fouler scorn put upon the times.
Página 92 - A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another ; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection...