American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 42Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1853 |
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... fact was past doubt that the earth was whirling on its axis with increased rapidity , and I with it , round and round , describing a circle continually lessening . From this time , recollection is confused . I remember that the rotation ...
... fact was past doubt that the earth was whirling on its axis with increased rapidity , and I with it , round and round , describing a circle continually lessening . From this time , recollection is confused . I remember that the rotation ...
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... fact of his speaking to me . At that time we were humble units of Young America , and Young America must do one of two things — dance or drive trotters . Losing and I came under the latter category . We knew all the calendars in the ...
... fact of his speaking to me . At that time we were humble units of Young America , and Young America must do one of two things — dance or drive trotters . Losing and I came under the latter category . We knew all the calendars in the ...
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... fact which the captain had propounded , of a steam - boat's having feet . Perhaps her hind - foot will strike next , I thought : I wonder what that will do . I remembered an old song of my father's about being ' ship - wrecked , and ...
... fact which the captain had propounded , of a steam - boat's having feet . Perhaps her hind - foot will strike next , I thought : I wonder what that will do . I remembered an old song of my father's about being ' ship - wrecked , and ...
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... fact ' only , and as ' old as the seven hills ? ' Will it not remind his reader of the lines : ' BOSTON is n't in Bengal ; Flannel drawers are n't made of tripe ; Lobsters wear no specs at all , And cows don't smoke the German pipe ...
... fact ' only , and as ' old as the seven hills ? ' Will it not remind his reader of the lines : ' BOSTON is n't in Bengal ; Flannel drawers are n't made of tripe ; Lobsters wear no specs at all , And cows don't smoke the German pipe ...
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... fact , that our best writers are not always those who devote themselves to literature strictly as a profession . We can call to mind - we do call to mind involuntarily , as we write - American ' authors , ' so - called , who in any half ...
... fact , that our best writers are not always those who devote themselves to literature strictly as a profession . We can call to mind - we do call to mind involuntarily , as we write - American ' authors , ' so - called , who in any half ...
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