Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty Years: With Occasional Remarks Upon the General Occurrences, Character and Spirit of that Eventful Period |
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... seemed mere habits of the female pa- rent , have invariably descended to her offspring . I venture this remark , though not quite in unison with the tone of the subject ; and though liable to be strained into an assumption of worth on ...
... seemed mere habits of the female pa- rent , have invariably descended to her offspring . I venture this remark , though not quite in unison with the tone of the subject ; and though liable to be strained into an assumption of worth on ...
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... seemed disinclined to in- terfere , and disposed to consider themselves rather as subjects than rulers . I have seen them slyly slip out of the way when the principal was entering up- on the job of capitally punishing a boy , who from ...
... seemed disinclined to in- terfere , and disposed to consider themselves rather as subjects than rulers . I have seen them slyly slip out of the way when the principal was entering up- on the job of capitally punishing a boy , who from ...
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... seemed a good deal sober- ed , and finding that I was neither a Quaker nor wholly ignorant of the world , he evinced some re- spe ct for me , took a seat with me in a box , and en- tering into conversation , soon discovered , that how ...
... seemed a good deal sober- ed , and finding that I was neither a Quaker nor wholly ignorant of the world , he evinced some re- spe ct for me , took a seat with me in a box , and en- tering into conversation , soon discovered , that how ...
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... seemed , with tasks above my strength , and buffeting with waves " in night and tempest wrapt . ” Borne by th ' outrageous flood To distance down , I ride the ridgy wave , Or whelm'd beneath the boiling eddy , sink . The exercises of ...
... seemed , with tasks above my strength , and buffeting with waves " in night and tempest wrapt . ” Borne by th ' outrageous flood To distance down , I ride the ridgy wave , Or whelm'd beneath the boiling eddy , sink . The exercises of ...
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... seemed a beginning of motion , and required a most unseemly jerk of the body ; an unequivocal evidence of the want of that power , which depends upon just balance , and should never be lost - which car ries the skater forward with ...
... seemed a beginning of motion , and required a most unseemly jerk of the body ; an unequivocal evidence of the want of that power , which depends upon just balance , and should never be lost - which car ries the skater forward with ...
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