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Page 15
... passed a very good night , but is uncommon perwerse , and unpleasant this mornin ' . Signed upon oath , S. Veller , Esquire , Senior . That's the last vun as was issued , Sammy , " replied Mr. Weller , untying his shawl . " No better ...
... passed a very good night , but is uncommon perwerse , and unpleasant this mornin ' . Signed upon oath , S. Veller , Esquire , Senior . That's the last vun as was issued , Sammy , " replied Mr. Weller , untying his shawl . " No better ...
Page 32
... passed between these par- ties , letters which are admitted to be in the hand - writing of the defendant , and which speak volumes indeed . These letters , too , bespeak the character of the man . They are not open , fervent , eloquent ...
... passed between these par- ties , letters which are admitted to be in the hand - writing of the defendant , and which speak volumes indeed . These letters , too , bespeak the character of the man . They are not open , fervent , eloquent ...
Page 50
... passed about the trial ; will you have the goodness to tell us , Mr. Weller ? ” " Vith all the pleasure in life , sir , ” replied Sam . " Arter a few unimportant obserwations from the two wirtuous females as has been examined here to ...
... passed about the trial ; will you have the goodness to tell us , Mr. Weller ? ” " Vith all the pleasure in life , sir , ” replied Sam . " Arter a few unimportant obserwations from the two wirtuous females as has been examined here to ...
Page 67
... passed him in on every side with their swords drawn in their hands , that Cæsar turned him nowhere , but he was stricken at by some , and still had naked swords in his face , and was hacked and mangled among them , as a wild beast taken ...
... passed him in on every side with their swords drawn in their hands , that Cæsar turned him nowhere , but he was stricken at by some , and still had naked swords in his face , and was hacked and mangled among them , as a wild beast taken ...
Page 71
... passing four years more than he . So he reaped no other fruit of all his reign and dominion , which he had so vehemently desired all his life , and pursued with such ex- treme danger : but a vain name only and a super- ficial glory ...
... passing four years more than he . So he reaped no other fruit of all his reign and dominion , which he had so vehemently desired all his life , and pursued with such ex- treme danger : but a vain name only and a super- ficial glory ...
Contents
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THE BATTLE OF CRESSY Jean Froissart | 94 |
THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA E S Creasy | 111 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER | 138 |
THE TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE | 145 |
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON Selections James Boswell | 155 |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Theodore Roosevelt | 277 |
THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS E S Creasy | 284 |
SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY Joseph Addison | 329 |
SIR FRANCIS BACON | 356 |
OF STUDIES Sir Francis Bacon | 362 |
ROBERT OF LINCOLN William Cullen Bryant | 410 |
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS Oliver Wendell Holmes | 423 |
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN John Keats | 433 |
OWLS Gilbert White | 169 |
THE VISION OF MIRZA Joseph Addison | 231 |
PIPPA PASSES Adapted from Robert Browning | 240 |
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS Abraham Lincoln | 272 |
THE FATE OF THE INDIANS Charles Sprague | 439 |
A CALL TO ARMS Patrick Henry | 451 |
HANDY TABLES | 469 |
INDEX | 479 |
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