Afloat and Ashore; Or, The Adventures of Miles Wallingford, Volums 1-2The Author, 1844 - 207 pàgines |
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Pàgina iv
... true , by avoiding extravagancies , by pourtraying with fide- lity , and , as our friend Marble might say , by " generalizing " with discretion . This country has undergone many important changes since the commencement of the present ...
... true , by avoiding extravagancies , by pourtraying with fide- lity , and , as our friend Marble might say , by " generalizing " with discretion . This country has undergone many important changes since the commencement of the present ...
Pàgina v
... true , had their caciques and other semi - feudal , and semi - savage noblesse , but the system was of short continuance ; the peculiarities of that section of the country , arising principally from the existence of domestic slavery ...
... true , had their caciques and other semi - feudal , and semi - savage noblesse , but the system was of short continuance ; the peculiarities of that section of the country , arising principally from the existence of domestic slavery ...
Pàgina vi
... true , and are not conscious of any very palpable errors of this nature . It is no more than fair to apprize the reader , that our tale is not completed in the First Part , or the volumes that are now published . This , the plan of the ...
... true , and are not conscious of any very palpable errors of this nature . It is no more than fair to apprize the reader , that our tale is not completed in the First Part , or the volumes that are now published . This , the plan of the ...
Pàgina 8
... true , ⚫ nor were the rooms particularly large ; but the latter were warm in winter , cool in summer , and tidy , neat and respect- able all the year round . Both the parlours had carpets , as had the passages and all the better bed ...
... true , ⚫ nor were the rooms particularly large ; but the latter were warm in winter , cool in summer , and tidy , neat and respect- able all the year round . Both the parlours had carpets , as had the passages and all the better bed ...
Pàgina 9
... true was this report ; though I never saw anything but the abundance of a better sort of American farm under the paternal roof , and I know that the poor were never sent away empty - handed . It is true that our wine was made of ...
... true was this report ; though I never saw anything but the abundance of a better sort of American farm under the paternal roof , and I know that the poor were never sent away empty - handed . It is true that our wine was made of ...
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Afloat and Ashore; Or, The Adventures of Miles Wallingford: Vol. 1-4 James Fenimore Cooper Visualització completa - 1851 |
Afloat and Ashore, Or The Adventures of Miles Wallingford James Fenimore Cooper Visualització completa - 1850 |
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Pàgina 53 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Pàgina 250 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.