 | 1806 - 310 pages
...objeft, a tr,ee, or a barn door, abouj my dimensions. If yoii 'hit that, send me ivord, and I shaU acknowledge, that if I had been in the same place, you might also hav# Hi T* •- J* ' " ' •• - + ' • l ' • ^ '" ' nit me. . ..::.... j . . ' QN , GAMUEN'S... | |
 | 1826 - 240 pages
...advisable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree, or a barn-door, about my dimensions If you hit that, send me word...acknowledge that if I had been in the same place, you might also have hit me." The next is an extract from the "Universal Magazine" for December, 1785, fhe editor... | |
 | 1823 - 736 pages
...advisable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree or a barndoor, about my dimensions. If you hit that, send me word,...acknowledge, that if I had been in the same place, you might also have hit me." — American Paper. Coal-oil Parish-lamps. — It is now some time since the volatile... | |
 | Joseph Hamilton - 1823 - 118 pages
...opinion, I will fearlessly follow the examples of the brave Turenne and Gardiner. I will cautiously avoid me word, and I shall acknowledge, that if I had been in the same place you might have hit me." The celebrated Abbe Galliani, author of several popular works, being at a public dinner, was inadvertently... | |
 | 1823 - 684 pages
...If you want to try ynur pistols, take some object, a tree or a barndoor, about my dimensions. If yon hit that, send me word, and I shall acknowledge, that if I had been in the same place, yon might also have hit me."— American Paper. Coal-oil Parish-lampt. — It is now some time since... | |
 | 1826 - 696 pages
...If you w anl to try your pistols, take some object, a tree or a barndoor, about my dimensions ; and if you hit that, send me word, and I shall acknowledge that had I been in the same place you might have also hit me. INDIAN AXSWI.U TO A CHALLENGE. I HAVE two... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree, or a barn-door, ahout my dimensions ; and if you hit that, send me word, and I shall acknowledge that bad I been in the same place you might hare also hit me.—• Morning Pott. VILLAGE CHARACTERS. V.... | |
 | Joseph Hamilton (of Dublin.) - 1829 - 266 pages
...advisable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistol, take some object, a tree, or a barn door, about my dimensions. If you hit that send me word,...had been in the same place you might have hit me." When Augustus Ceesar received a challenge from Anthony to fight a duel, he very calmly replied, " If... | |
 | 1833 - 370 pages
...distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree or a barn door, about my dimeniions. If you hit that, send me word, and I shall acknowledge, that, if I had been in the same place, you might also have bit me,— (American Paper.) NATURE. IN a state of nature no race of animals is unhappy ;... | |
 | 536 pages
...visable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree, or a barn door, about my dimensions. If you hit that, send me word,...acknowledge, that, if I had been in the same place, you might also hare hit me." — American Рлрег. IDLENESS is the great corrupter of youth ; and the bane... | |
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I do not much like to stand in the way of any thing harmful. I am under apprehensions you might hit me. That being the case, I think it most advisable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree, or a barn-door, about... 
