The Bobbin Boy, Or, How Nat Got His Learning: An Example for YouthJ.E. Tilton, 1860 - 310 páginas |
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... village - remarks of old Mrs. Lane - why Nat does it conversation with Charlie - Nat op- posed to being an actor - desire to be a statesman . . 226-234 CHAPTER XXIII . THE SURPRISE . - - The news discussion in the town lyceum ...
... village - remarks of old Mrs. Lane - why Nat does it conversation with Charlie - Nat op- posed to being an actor - desire to be a statesman . . 226-234 CHAPTER XXIII . THE SURPRISE . - - The news discussion in the town lyceum ...
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... village . Next Saturday afternoon I shall try my luck . " " You will turn peddler then ? " " Yes ; but I don't think I shall like it so well as raising the squashes . There is real satisfaction in seeing them grow . " " If you can ...
... village . Next Saturday afternoon I shall try my luck . " " You will turn peddler then ? " " Yes ; but I don't think I shall like it so well as raising the squashes . There is real satisfaction in seeing them grow . " " If you can ...
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... village as quick as any cherries . " " I think so too , " said Nat ; " and if we strip the tree , the first thing we shall know , the constable will have us up for stealing . " " Pshaw ! " exclaimed John . " You are more scared than ...
... village as quick as any cherries . " " I think so too , " said Nat ; " and if we strip the tree , the first thing we shall know , the constable will have us up for stealing . " " Pshaw ! " exclaimed John . " You are more scared than ...
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... village heard of Nat's swim- ming feats under water , as well as on the water , and it was not unusual for spectators to assemble on the shore , when they knew that he was going to bathe . Not far from this time , a little later in the ...
... village heard of Nat's swim- ming feats under water , as well as on the water , and it was not unusual for spectators to assemble on the shore , when they knew that he was going to bathe . Not far from this time , a little later in the ...
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... village school- house . The skating grounds never presented more attractions to Nat and his circle of schoolmates . " The ice is smooth as glass , " said John . " I never saw better skating in my life . Will you try it right after ...
... village school- house . The skating grounds never presented more attractions to Nat and his circle of schoolmates . " The ice is smooth as glass , " said John . " I never saw better skating in my life . Will you try it right after ...
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The Bobbin Boy, Or, How Nat Got His Learning: An Example for Youth William M. Thayer Vista completa - 1861 |
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Términos y frases comunes
actor added Charlie added Frank added Nat answered Charlie answered Nat asked Nat battle of Pampeluna became believe better Boston called caps CHAPTER character Charlie Stone cherries commenced companions Count Rumford Democrat Drake Dramatic Society drink eloquence exclaimed expect factory Faneuil Hall father fellow Frank Frank Martin Franklin grammar hear heard hill hope hour improve inquired Charlie inquired Nat Jefferson John John Pounds John Quincy Adams knew knowledge labor laughed live look Marcus mean ment miles morning mother Nat and Charlie Nat's never night obliged orator parents Patrick Henry Perhaps person play pocket poor quired remark replied Charlie replied Nat Samuel scholars soon speak speaker spell spile squashes suppose surprised tavern teacher tell theatre thing thought tion told Trip village walk wild cherries young youth
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Página 291 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Página 116 - Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Página 148 - And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other.
Página 147 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man ! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment, be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Página 95 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Página 191 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Página 151 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Página 149 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another...
Página 149 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Página 116 - These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.