Exemplary and Instructive Biography: For the Study of YouthChambers, 1836 - 334 pages |
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... fame . In 1705 , he re- ceived the honour of knighthood from Queen Anne . Newton's benevolence of disposition led him to perform all the minor duties of social life with great exactness ; he paid and received frequent visits ; he ...
... fame . In 1705 , he re- ceived the honour of knighthood from Queen Anne . Newton's benevolence of disposition led him to perform all the minor duties of social life with great exactness ; he paid and received frequent visits ; he ...
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... fame of this extraordinary man than a work which he wrote about the same period , of a devotional and moral nature , but which was not given to the world till after his decease . The manner in which this work was writ- ten is curious ...
... fame of this extraordinary man than a work which he wrote about the same period , of a devotional and moral nature , but which was not given to the world till after his decease . The manner in which this work was writ- ten is curious ...
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... fame ; and having written out a paper , in a dis- guised hand , he slipped it under the door of the printing - of- fice , where it was found next morning , and submitted , as usual , to the critics when they assembled . They read it ...
... fame ; and having written out a paper , in a dis- guised hand , he slipped it under the door of the printing - of- fice , where it was found next morning , and submitted , as usual , to the critics when they assembled . They read it ...
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... fame , was the son of a respectable farmer at Fowlshiels , in the county of Selkirk , in the south of Scotland , and was born at his father's house on the 10th September 1771. He was the seventh of a family of thirteen children ; yet ...
... fame , was the son of a respectable farmer at Fowlshiels , in the county of Selkirk , in the south of Scotland , and was born at his father's house on the 10th September 1771. He was the seventh of a family of thirteen children ; yet ...
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... fame and fortune , and became cele- brated as one of the first botanists in the kingdom . He had gone to London in search of employment as a journeyman gardener , and procured an engagement , in that humble capa- city , with a ...
... fame and fortune , and became cele- brated as one of the first botanists in the kingdom . He had gone to London in search of employment as a journeyman gardener , and procured an engagement , in that humble capa- city , with a ...
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Page 201 - Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Page 76 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 55 - ... for the rhyme would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator...
Page 58 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul, nor where to look for lodging. I...
Page 122 - I was weary and dejected, inquired into my situation, which I briefly explained to her ; whereupon, with looks of great compassion, she took up my saddle and bridle, and told me to follow her.
Page 121 - The view of this extensive city; the numerous canoes upon the river; the crowded population and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa.
Page 122 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words literally translated were these: — 'The winds roared and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree.
Page 70 - ... ever after manifested a readiness to serve me on all occasions, so that we became great friends and our friendship continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, ''He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Page 135 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Page 148 - He was impatient of whatever interfered with his favourite pursuits ; and the fact is too strikingly characteristic not to be mentioned, that he separated from his wife not many years after their marriage, because she, convinced that he would starve his family by scheming when he should have been shaving, broke some of his experimental models of machinery.