The American Mechanic and Working-man, Volumen2W.S. Martien, 1847 |
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... parents , and children , and friends , the cordial hospitality , and the refer- ence of every thing abroad to this central spot of home . As he retired from the lovely scene , he exclaimed , with a sort of transport , “ Now I have the ...
... parents , and children , and friends , the cordial hospitality , and the refer- ence of every thing abroad to this central spot of home . As he retired from the lovely scene , he exclaimed , with a sort of transport , “ Now I have the ...
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... parental hearth , she is still followed by kindly regards . The gray - haired father drops in every day to greet the beloved face ; and when he pats the cheeks of the little grandchildren , it is chiefly because the bond which unites ...
... parental hearth , she is still followed by kindly regards . The gray - haired father drops in every day to greet the beloved face ; and when he pats the cheeks of the little grandchildren , it is chiefly because the bond which unites ...
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... parental eye and the parental hand be ever ready to descry and avert the danger . The great point is gained when the father is con- vinced that the daughter needs his care . He is less anxious , and she is safe . She should be educated ...
... parental eye and the parental hand be ever ready to descry and avert the danger . The great point is gained when the father is con- vinced that the daughter needs his care . He is less anxious , and she is safe . She should be educated ...
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... parents who are so foolish as to bring up their children on a diet of froth , flowers , and syllabub . No discreet parent surely will allow himself to look upon his daughter's education as a mere bait for suitors : he who does so is ...
... parents who are so foolish as to bring up their children on a diet of froth , flowers , and syllabub . No discreet parent surely will allow himself to look upon his daughter's education as a mere bait for suitors : he who does so is ...
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... parent . And , again , if a suitable guard be placed over her associations , she will be seldom in those companies where such alliances are most apt to be formed , and will thus be kept out of harm's way . O mothers , mothers ! how ...
... parent . And , again , if a suitable guard be placed over her associations , she will be seldom in those companies where such alliances are most apt to be formed , and will thus be kept out of harm's way . O mothers , mothers ! how ...
Términos y frases comunes
American American Antiquarian Society ancient apprentice Arthur Bates artisans become better cheerful Cicero Cineas common daughter delightful domestic door drawing drink enjoy evil father favour feeling fine frenzy friends give habits hand happy Hebrew Bible husband influence instruction journeymen tailors knowledge labour learned less live look manual labour master means mechanics memory Menenius Agrippa ment mind moral nature neighbour never night observed old age once parents perhaps persons pleasure Plutarch poor principles reader reason repose rich rience rise Robert Burns Roger Sherman scarcely schoolmaster society sort stancy sure syllabub Talmud taste tavern tell temper thing thou thought thousand tion town trade true truth uncle Benjamin virtue virtuous wages whole wife word working-man workmen young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 238 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 247 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Página 157 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo 50 The means of weakness and debility ; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 202 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Página 249 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 260 - But clear and artless pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise ? " The Man of Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross...
Página 140 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Página 58 - 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 282 - I give and I devise" (old Euclio said, And sigh'd) " my lands and tenements to Ned." Your money, Sir? "My money, Sir! what all? Why, — if I must — (then wept) I give it Paul.
Página 248 - And, certes,* in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind. What is a lordling's pomp ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind!