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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... he be- came a perfect clock in regularity ; was a truly honest man , and what will be thought still better by many , he was a genuine whig of seventy - six , though too old or infirm to carry arms in the revolutionary A LIFE . BY.
... he be- came a perfect clock in regularity ; was a truly honest man , and what will be thought still better by many , he was a genuine whig of seventy - six , though too old or infirm to carry arms in the revolutionary A LIFE . BY.
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... thought him , as he has often told me , one of the best and wisest men that ever lived . I never knew him do a foolish thing , said he , but once . Up- on my asking him what that was ; it was , said he , on occasion of some worthless ...
... thought him , as he has often told me , one of the best and wisest men that ever lived . I never knew him do a foolish thing , said he , but once . Up- on my asking him what that was ; it was , said he , on occasion of some worthless ...
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... thought highly of by his party , and made a good deal of noise . He had also made some figure , it seems , in the old world , being spoken of , as I have heard , though in what way I know not , having never seen the work , in a book ...
... thought highly of by his party , and made a good deal of noise . He had also made some figure , it seems , in the old world , being spoken of , as I have heard , though in what way I know not , having never seen the work , in a book ...
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... thought to deserve . He had another contrivance for boys who were late in their morning attendance . This was to dispatch a committee of five or six scholars for them , with a bell and lighted lantern , and in this " odd equipage , " in ...
... thought to deserve . He had another contrivance for boys who were late in their morning attendance . This was to dispatch a committee of five or six scholars for them , with a bell and lighted lantern , and in this " odd equipage , " in ...
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... thought proper to dispatch a servant after me in haste ; and upon my being brought back , rather to yield to the violence of my temper , than persist in the attempt to subdue it . In saying my resistance proceeded from a sense of ...
... thought proper to dispatch a servant after me in haste ; and upon my being brought back , rather to yield to the violence of my temper , than persist in the attempt to subdue it . In saying my resistance proceeded from a sense of ...
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