Young Benjamin Franklin: Or, The Right Road Through LifeHarper & Brothers, 1862 - 561 pages |
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... earth was like , and whether it was really true that there was no end to the world , nor any place where one could stand on the brink of it , and look down into the great well of space below . For the last hour or two , however , the ...
... earth was like , and whether it was really true that there was no end to the world , nor any place where one could stand on the brink of it , and look down into the great well of space below . For the last hour or two , however , the ...
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... earth of the plowed fields they had trudged over , and carrying in their hands the new walking - sticks they had cut from the copse as they came along . Then young Esther and Martha made their ap- pearance , wrapped in their warm ...
... earth of the plowed fields they had trudged over , and carrying in their hands the new walking - sticks they had cut from the copse as they came along . Then young Esther and Martha made their ap- pearance , wrapped in their warm ...
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... earth itself variegated as a painter's palette with all the autumn colors of the green meadows and the brown fallow lands - the golden orchards , the crimson patches of clover , and the white flocks and red cattle with which it was ...
... earth itself variegated as a painter's palette with all the autumn colors of the green meadows and the brown fallow lands - the golden orchards , the crimson patches of clover , and the white flocks and red cattle with which it was ...
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... earth all round about it . Unlike the tree and the shrub , Ben , the animal is endowed with a susceptibility of feeling , as well as fitted with a special and exquisitely beautiful apparatus for motion . The sentient creature is thus ...
... earth all round about it . Unlike the tree and the shrub , Ben , the animal is endowed with a susceptibility of feeling , as well as fitted with a special and exquisitely beautiful apparatus for motion . The sentient creature is thus ...
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... earth itself ! And yet , vast as it looks to us , lad , this great tract of shore is but a mere span's length in comparison with the enormous American con- tinent ; that continent which is a third part of the entire earth - one of the ...
... earth itself ! And yet , vast as it looks to us , lad , this great tract of shore is but a mere span's length in comparison with the enormous American con- tinent ; that continent which is a third part of the entire earth - one of the ...
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Young Benjamin Franklin; Or, the Right Road Through Life, a Boy's Book on a ... Henry Mayhew No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 430 - 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 306 - 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 289 - ... other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one...
Page 275 - Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Page 275 - 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 291 - 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 306 - 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 ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Page 305 - 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 17 - At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father in his business, which was that of a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler...
Page 290 - ... was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other...