The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own BoswellJ.R. Osgood, 1873 - 373 pages |
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... fellow of two or three and twenty has as good a right to spoil a magazine - full of essays in learning how to write , as an oculist like Wenzel had to spoil his hat - full of eyes in learning how to operate for cataract , or an elegant ...
... fellow of two or three and twenty has as good a right to spoil a magazine - full of essays in learning how to write , as an oculist like Wenzel had to spoil his hat - full of eyes in learning how to operate for cataract , or an elegant ...
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... fellows , who meet together to dine and have a good time , have signed a constitutional compact to glorify themselves ... fellow we spoke of , who always belongs to this class of slightly flavored mediocrities , is puzzled and vexed by ...
... fellows , who meet together to dine and have a good time , have signed a constitutional compact to glorify themselves ... fellow we spoke of , who always belongs to this class of slightly flavored mediocrities , is puzzled and vexed by ...
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... fellows that always have an ill - conditioned fact or two which they lead after them into decent company like so many bull - dogs , ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion , or convenient generaliza- tion , or pleasant ...
... fellows that always have an ill - conditioned fact or two which they lead after them into decent company like so many bull - dogs , ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion , or convenient generaliza- tion , or pleasant ...
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... fellows that steam well when they are at work are the men that draw big audiences and give us marrowy books and pic- tures . It is a good sign to have one's feet grow cold when he is writing . A great writer and speaker once told me ...
... fellows that steam well when they are at work are the men that draw big audiences and give us marrowy books and pic- tures . It is a good sign to have one's feet grow cold when he is writing . A great writer and speaker once told me ...
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... fellow . One may have none of them , and yet be fit for councils and courts . Then let them change places . Our social arrangement has this great beauty , that its strata shift up and down as they change specific gravity , without being ...
... fellow . One may have none of them , and yet be fit for councils and courts . Then let them change places . Our social arrangement has this great beauty , that its strata shift up and down as they change specific gravity , without being ...
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Page 296 - He would build one shay to beat the taown 'n' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun'; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown: — " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't 's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Page 297 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that runs at large ; Take it.
Page 296 - So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, 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 cross-bars 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 298 - That there wasn'ta chance for one to start, For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whipple-tree neither less nor more, And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore.
Page 295 - 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 110 - 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 Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl I And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell...
Page 298 - The parson was working his Sunday's text, — Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses — was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n
Page 105 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving...
Page 54 - I grieve to say is sometimes heard even from female lips. The other is of more serious purport, and applies to such as contemplate a change of condition, — matrimony, in fact. — The woman who " calc'lates " is lost. — Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Page 77 - And is there nothing yet unsaid, Before the change appears ? Remember, all their gifts have fled With those dissolving years ! " Why, yes ; for memory would recall My fond paternal joys ; I could not bear to leave them all : I '11 take — my — girl — and — boys...