The Autocrat of the breakfast tableHoughton, Mifflin, 1858 - 373 pages |
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... never so ftill fince the creation . " . There was nothing better than these things and there was not a little that was much worse . A young fellow of two or three and twenty has as good a right to spoil a magazine - full of essays in ...
... never so ftill fince the creation . " . There was nothing better than these things and there was not a little that was much worse . A young fellow of two or three and twenty has as good a right to spoil a magazine - full of essays in ...
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... never was but one man whom I would trust with my latch - key . " " Who might that favored person be ? " " Zimmermann . " -The men of genius that I fancy most have erectile heads like the cobra - di - capello . You remem- ber what they ...
... never was but one man whom I would trust with my latch - key . " " Who might that favored person be ? " " Zimmermann . " -The men of genius that I fancy most have erectile heads like the cobra - di - capello . You remem- ber what they ...
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... never allud ing to that sentiment again during the course of a protracted existence ! Why , the truths a man carries about with him are his tools ; and do you think a carpenter is bound to use the same plane but once to smooth a knotty ...
... never allud ing to that sentiment again during the course of a protracted existence ! Why , the truths a man carries about with him are his tools ; and do you think a carpenter is bound to use the same plane but once to smooth a knotty ...
Page 9
... never once thought of the odious fowl until the recurrence of precisely the same circumstances brought up precisely the same idea . He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments . Given certain factors , and a ...
... never once thought of the odious fowl until the recurrence of precisely the same circumstances brought up precisely the same idea . He ought to have been proud of the accuracy of his mental adjustments . Given certain factors , and a ...
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... never lived , and that no battle of Bunker - hill was ever fought . The great minds are those with a wide span , which couple truths related to , but far removed from , each other . Logicians carry the surveyor's chain over the track of ...
... never lived , and that no battle of Bunker - hill was ever fought . The great minds are those with a wide span , which couple truths related to , but far removed from , each other . Logicians carry the surveyor's chain over the track of ...
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Page 289 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot, In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor , or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace, — lurking still, Find it somewhere you must and will, Above or below, or within or without, And that's the reason, beyond a doubt, A chaise breaks down but doesn't wear out. But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an "I dew vum...
Page 290 - That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke,^ That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Page 104 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new...
Page 292 - What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You...
Page 289 - Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. It was on the terrible earthquake-day That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay.
Page 99 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Page 104 - THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.* This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Page 305 - I care not much for gold or land; Give me a mortgage here and there — Some good bank-stock — some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend.
Page 194 - The smooth, soft air with pulse-like waves Flows murmuring through its hidden caves, Whose streams of brightening purple rush, Fired with a new and livelier blush, While all their burden of decay The ebbing current steals away, And red with Nature's flame they start From the warm fountains of the heart.
Page 104 - And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell...