The Attaché Or Sam Slick in England

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Baudry's European Library, 1843 - 314 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 40 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep.
Pàgina 161 - Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the very verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Pàgina 98 - And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
Pàgina 98 - The heart knoweth its own bitterness ; and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy.
Pàgina 85 - Private and public life are subject to the same rules; and truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy, or tact, or expediency, or any other word that was ever devised to conceal or mystify a deviation from a straight line.
Pàgina 51 - Pray, sir," said one of my fellow passengers, " can yon tell me why the Nova Scotians arc called 'Blue-Noses ? ' " "It is the name of a potatoe," said I, "which they produce in great perfection, and boast to be the best in the world. The Americans have, in consequence, given them the nickname of Blue-Noses.
Pàgina 145 - ... that looks light, cut with a knife; if a thing looks like fish, you may take your oath it is flesh ; and if it seems rael flesh, it's only disguised, for it's sure to be fish; nothin' must be nateral, natur is out of fashion here. This is a manufacturin...
Pàgina 141 - They make you let others guess for you, instead of guessin' for yourself. Sarvants spile your habits here, and books spile your mind. I wouldn't swap ideas with any man. I make my own opinions, as I used to do my own clocks ; and I find they are truer than other men's. The Turks are so cussed heavy, they have people to dance for 'em ; the English are wus, for they hire people to think for 'em. Never read a book, Squire, always think for yourself. " Well, arter breakfast, it's on hat and coat...
Pàgina 113 - He showed the effect of these empty and wicked promises upon his followers, who in the holy record of this unnatural rebellion as " men who went out in their simplicity, and knew not anything." He then said that similar arts were used in all ages for similar purposes ; and that these professions of disinterested patriotism were the common pretences by which wicked men availed themselves of the animal force of...
Pàgina 222 - Congress, and see their speeches, and if they don't, they send a piece to the paper, enquirin' if their member died a nateral death, or was skivered with a bowie knife, for they hante seen his speeches lately, and his friends are anxious to know his fate. Our free and enlightened citizens don't approbate silent members ; it don't seem to them as if Squashville, or...

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