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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... challenged me once talk Latin with him , says the doctor . I quoted some of Horace , which be took to be my own speech . He said a few words well enough . to badge of disgrace towering from his nape like a broom 14 MEMOIRS OF.
... challenged me once talk Latin with him , says the doctor . I quoted some of Horace , which be took to be my own speech . He said a few words well enough . to badge of disgrace towering from his nape like a broom 14 MEMOIRS OF.
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... took him at his word ; and one morning , when he had overstaid his time , either through lazi- ness , inattention or design , he found himself waited on in the usual form . He immediately admitted the justice of the procedure , and ...
... took him at his word ; and one morning , when he had overstaid his time , either through lazi- ness , inattention or design , he found himself waited on in the usual form . He immediately admitted the justice of the procedure , and ...
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... took place at my grandfather's , to the no small entertainment of the old gentleman , who often adverted to it afterwards . Dove was there , and in endeavoring to correct my utterance , as I had an ill habit of speaking with my teeth ...
... took place at my grandfather's , to the no small entertainment of the old gentleman , who often adverted to it afterwards . Dove was there , and in endeavoring to correct my utterance , as I had an ill habit of speaking with my teeth ...
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... took part , like a se- cond friend , in the vicissitudes of his fortune , I par- ticipated in his toils , I warmed with his exploits , I wept where he wept , and exulted where he tri- umphed . As my lot has been cast in a turbulent ...
... took part , like a se- cond friend , in the vicissitudes of his fortune , I par- ticipated in his toils , I warmed with his exploits , I wept where he wept , and exulted where he tri- umphed . As my lot has been cast in a turbulent ...
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... took occasion to observe , that his were too small for him , but as mine , on the contra- ry , were large and exactly suited to his hand , he proposed an exchange , offering me the odds , first , of two , and then of three for onc ...
... took occasion to observe , that his were too small for him , but as mine , on the contra- ry , were large and exactly suited to his hand , he proposed an exchange , offering me the odds , first , of two , and then of three for onc ...
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