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... whole town , rich and poor , ate salt fish with pork scraps and pota- toes for their Saturday dinner , and peo- ple always knew when it was Friday night by seeing the salt fish put in soak . She tells of a certain Captain Carver who ...
... whole town , rich and poor , ate salt fish with pork scraps and pota- toes for their Saturday dinner , and peo- ple always knew when it was Friday night by seeing the salt fish put in soak . She tells of a certain Captain Carver who ...
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... whole pincushion full of needles , to save her taking a rest between daylight and dark . " " Ah , my friend , I see that human nature was the same in your day as now . " " Oh , no ! Right - down honesty was of good deal more account ...
... whole pincushion full of needles , to save her taking a rest between daylight and dark . " " Ah , my friend , I see that human nature was the same in your day as now . " " Oh , no ! Right - down honesty was of good deal more account ...
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... whole of it by heart , title - page and preface way through to where it told about The late Reverend and Venerable M. NATHANIEL CLAPP , of New- port on Rhode Island ; his Advice to Chil- dren . ' I don't remember any other books for the ...
... whole of it by heart , title - page and preface way through to where it told about The late Reverend and Venerable M. NATHANIEL CLAPP , of New- port on Rhode Island ; his Advice to Chil- dren . ' I don't remember any other books for the ...
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... whole neighborhood , or some angelic singer and her pretty mates make the wild woods ring with their an- thems clear . I suppose you can nowhere find a greater proportion of persons possessed of the old- world religious fervor than in ...
... whole neighborhood , or some angelic singer and her pretty mates make the wild woods ring with their an- thems clear . I suppose you can nowhere find a greater proportion of persons possessed of the old- world religious fervor than in ...
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... tell a lie for the whole world . One commodiousnesse of the sea , this faire day he went peep - shooting on the beach New England is by all judicious men ac- men . " One cannot help sympathizing with him in. 22 IN PLYMOUTH WOODS .
... tell a lie for the whole world . One commodiousnesse of the sea , this faire day he went peep - shooting on the beach New England is by all judicious men ac- men . " One cannot help sympathizing with him in. 22 IN PLYMOUTH WOODS .
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Page 161 - For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups : and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Page 566 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 122 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 118 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer...
Page 556 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes, north latitude, and between the 131st and 133rd degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Page 124 - Lord had appointed it or not, he charged us before . God and his blessed angels, to follow him no further than he followed Christ; and if God should reveal anything to us by any other instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it as ever we were to receive any truth by his ministry ; for he was very confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 556 - ... point the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast, as far as the point of intersection of the...
Page 571 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Page 263 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Page 552 - Straits on the parallel of sixty-hve degrees thirty minutes north latitude, at its intersection by the meridian which passes midway between the islands of Krusenstern, or Ignalook, and the island of Ratmanov, or Noonarbook, and proceeds due north, without limitation, into the same Frozen Ocean.