Young Benjamin Franklin: Or, The Right Road Through Life, A Boy's Book on a Boy's Own SubjectHarper & Brothers, 1862 - 561 pages |
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... seemed as free as the gull in the airt ( though it has been well said , on the contrary , that a ship is a " prison without any * " I disliked the trade , " Franklin tells us himself , in the account of his early life , " and had a ...
... seemed as free as the gull in the airt ( though it has been well said , on the contrary , that a ship is a " prison without any * " I disliked the trade , " Franklin tells us himself , in the account of his early life , " and had a ...
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... seemed , indeed , to be of cast iron , his chest being broad as a bison's , and the grip of his big , hard hand like the squeeze of a vice . His face was gipsy - bronze with the weath- er he had long been exposed to , and set in a ...
... seemed , indeed , to be of cast iron , his chest being broad as a bison's , and the grip of his big , hard hand like the squeeze of a vice . His face was gipsy - bronze with the weath- er he had long been exposed to , and set in a ...
Page 63
... seemed barely to have reached the summit of life's hill rather than to have commenced her journey down it . True , a quick eye might have discovered just a filament or two of silver streaking the dark bands of hair that braided her ...
... seemed barely to have reached the summit of life's hill rather than to have commenced her journey down it . True , a quick eye might have discovered just a filament or two of silver streaking the dark bands of hair that braided her ...
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... seemed to be reveling in the breeze far away from land had each left behind them a bright trail , which looked like a long shining scar upon the water ; and from the scores of islands dappling the great ocean - lake , ferry - boats ...
... seemed to be reveling in the breeze far away from land had each left behind them a bright trail , which looked like a long shining scar upon the water ; and from the scores of islands dappling the great ocean - lake , ferry - boats ...
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... seemed as though they were so many cables mooring the huge raft of the city to the adjacent continent . The country round about was dappled with many a white and cosy homestead , and the earth itself variegated as a painter's palette ...
... seemed as though they were so many cables mooring the huge raft of the city to the adjacent continent . The country round about was dappled with many a white and cosy homestead , and the earth itself variegated as a painter's palette ...
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Page 426 - Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 304 - Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep" — the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care; The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast — Lady M. What do you mean? Macb. Still it cried "Sleep no more!
Page 287 - ... other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one...
Page 289 - We tiffed a little going to church, and fairly quarrelled before the bells had done ringing. I was more than once nearly choked with gall during the honeymoon, and had lost all comfort in life before my friends had done wishing me joy. Yet I chose with caution — a girl bred wholly in the country, who never knew luxury beyond one silk gown, nor dissipation above the annual gala of a race ball.
Page 425 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are : for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 303 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Page 273 - A made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child. A parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide. For after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 289 - When an old bachelor marries a young wife, what is he to expect ? 'Tis now six months since Lady Teazle made me the happiest of men — and I have been the most miserable dog ever since ! We tiffed a little going to church, and fairly quarrelled before the bells had done ringing.
Page 287 - ... in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Page 288 - Heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.