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 PeriodJohn Wyeth, 1811 - 378 стор. |
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... army was without eyes , it had , of course , no better information than such as common bruit could supply ; and hence , many untoward con- sequences ensued : One was the near extinction of a troop of mounted butchers from Germantown ...
... army was without eyes , it had , of course , no better information than such as common bruit could supply ; and hence , many untoward con- sequences ensued : One was the near extinction of a troop of mounted butchers from Germantown ...
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... army . It was at different times , nearly filled by those of the Forty second or High- land regiment , as also by those of the Royal Irish . Besides these , it sometimes accommodated officers of other armies , and other uniforms . Of ...
... army . It was at different times , nearly filled by those of the Forty second or High- land regiment , as also by those of the Royal Irish . Besides these , it sometimes accommodated officers of other armies , and other uniforms . Of ...
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... army never to look at auk- ward men ; we hold it unpolite . ' The colonel was no doubt correct in his opinion of our tactics ; though I was nettled a little at his contemptuous manner of treating us . But I here dismiss him with the ob ...
... army never to look at auk- ward men ; we hold it unpolite . ' The colonel was no doubt correct in his opinion of our tactics ; though I was nettled a little at his contemptuous manner of treating us . But I here dismiss him with the ob ...
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... army , who was sometime our inmate , is suggested by a notice of his death in the monthly magazine of March , 1807 . This was general John Reid , who is stated to have died in his 87th year , the oldest officer in the ser- vice . In ...
... army , who was sometime our inmate , is suggested by a notice of his death in the monthly magazine of March , 1807 . This was general John Reid , who is stated to have died in his 87th year , the oldest officer in the ser- vice . In ...
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... army , I pass to one of the navy , rude and boisterous as the element to which he belonged . His name I think was Wal- lace , the commander of a ship of war on the Ame- rican station , and full fraught , perhaps with the ill humor of ...
... army , I pass to one of the navy , rude and boisterous as the element to which he belonged . His name I think was Wal- lace , the commander of a ship of war on the Ame- rican station , and full fraught , perhaps with the ill humor of ...
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Сторінка 305 - And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, — 'Keep your piece nine years.
Сторінка 21 - I'm drest all in my best To walk abroad with Sally; She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley.
Сторінка 362 - Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father...
Сторінка 86 - Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until your morals shall happily be ripened to that maturity of corruption at which the worst examples cease to be contagious.
Сторінка 109 - They made a halt, while the Doctor, foaming with rage and indignation, without his hat, his wig dishevelled and bloody from his wounded hand, stood up in the cart and called for a bowl of punch.
Сторінка 27 - Where sordid interest shows the prey. When once the poet's honour ceases, From reason far his transports rove ; And Boileau, for eight hundred pieces, Makes Louis take the wall of Jove.
Сторінка 333 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — Fie, fie, fie! pah; pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there's money for the'e.
Сторінка 84 - I have been wronged enough to arm my temper Against the smooth delusion; but alas ! (Chide not my weakness, gentle maid, but pity me) A woman's softness hangs about me still : Then let me blush, and tell thee all my folly. I...
Сторінка 303 - Things vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other : And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise...