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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... recollect , that the horrors of a discomfiture by such a foe , were among my most early and lively impressions . To the terrors of the tomahawk and the scalping knife , the imagination adds the savage yells , the gloomy woods and dismal ...
... recollect , that the horrors of a discomfiture by such a foe , were among my most early and lively impressions . To the terrors of the tomahawk and the scalping knife , the imagination adds the savage yells , the gloomy woods and dismal ...
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... recollect little or nothing of going to school at Bristol , further than that there was one , and the master's name Pinkerton , a kind , good humored Irishman , from whom I might have learned , that as one thing was cruel big , so ...
... recollect little or nothing of going to school at Bristol , further than that there was one , and the master's name Pinkerton , a kind , good humored Irishman , from whom I might have learned , that as one thing was cruel big , so ...
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... recollect a circumstance , however , which one af- ternoon 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 ...
... recollect a circumstance , however , which one af- ternoon 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 ...
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... recollect of my own provoking ; for I have a right to declare , that my general deportment was correct and unoffending , though extremely obstinate and un- yielding under a sense of injustice . I gave an early instance of this , in once ...
... recollect of my own provoking ; for I have a right to declare , that my general deportment was correct and unoffending , though extremely obstinate and un- yielding under a sense of injustice . I gave an early instance of this , in once ...
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... appeared inimitably tender and affecting . The only verse I recollect of it is the following : -- Of all the days within the week , I dearly love but one day , And that's the day that comes between Saturday and Monday 22.
... appeared inimitably tender and affecting . The only verse I recollect of it is the following : -- Of all the days within the week , I dearly love but one day , And that's the day that comes between Saturday and Monday 22.
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