 Slavery was dead and gone; all men were equal before the law; taxation had been equalized. The telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the type-writer, the sewing machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were...  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Page 381by Mark Twain - 1889 - 433 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Thomas Stead - 1890 - 766 pages
...everywhere, and several colleges ; a number of pretty good newspapers. Even authorship was taking a start. Slavery was dead and gone ; all men were equal before the law ; taxation had been equalised. The telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the type-writer, the sewing machine, and all... | |
 | Kenneth Huntress Baldwin, David Kirby - 1975 - 248 pages
...and several colleges; a number of pretty good newspapers. Even authorship was taking a start. . . . Slavery was dead and gone; all men were equal before the law; taxation had been 34. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, facsimile of the first edition... | |
 | Benjamin R. Barber, Michael J. Gargas McGrath - 432 pages
...nineteenth century reforms into the open, he stresses how prosperous he has made the country, noting that "the telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the...and electricity were working their way into favor" (XL). The businessman's jargon and entrepreneur's images fill his everyday speech. When, having "caused"... | |
 | David Lowenthal - 1985 - 522 pages
...and prosperous: 'Schools everywhere, and several colleges; a number of pretty good newspapers . . . Slavery was dead and gone; all men were equal before the law . . . The telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the typewriter, the sewing-machine, and all the... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - 1987 - 324 pages
...happy and prosperous country, and strangely altered. Schools everywhere, and several colleges. . . . Slavery was dead and gone; all men were equal before...the telephone, the phonograph, the type-writer, the sewing machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were working... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1994 - 1068 pages
...fol-de-rol tried conclusions with the magic of science, the magic of fol-de-rol got left. Chapter 40 THREE YEARS LATER WHEN I broke the back of knight-errantry,...the telephone, the phonograph, the type-writer, the sewing machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were working... | |
 | Forrest G. Robinson - 1995 - 288 pages
...and the Church, his admirable social reforms are explicitly linked with his own colonial practices: Slavery was dead and gone; all men were equal before...telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the type-writer, 184 the sewing machine, and all the thousand and handy servants of steam and electricity were working... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia, Thomas McLaughlin - 2010 - 498 pages
...opposing Englishmen. At one point, his scheme seems on the brink of success: "all men were created equal before the law; taxation had been equalized....the telephone, the phonograph, the type-writer, the sewing machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were working... | |
 | John Carlos Rowe - 2000 - 398 pages
...and the church. his admirable social reforms are explicitly linked with his own colonial practices: Slavery was dead and gone: all men were equal before...the telephone. the phonograph. the type-writer. the sewing machine. and all the thousand and handy servants of steam and electricity were working their... | |
 | Mark Twain - 2007 - 481 pages
...added to its proportions. I said, name the day, and I would take fifty assistants and 370 Mark Twain stand up against the massed chivalry of the whole...the telephone, the phonograph, the typewriter, the sewing machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were working... | |
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