The Old Farmer and His Almanack: Being Some Observations on Life and Manners in New England a Hundred Years Ago, Suggested by Reading the Earlier Numbers of Mr. Robert B. Thomas's Farmer's Almanack, Together with Extracts Curious, Instructive, and Entertaining, as Well as a Variety of Miscellaneous Matter |
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... Courts ; Duties on Spirits imported , and on thofe diftilled within the United States ; with many other interefting Matters . • By OSGOOD CARLETON , Teacher of Mathematicks , in BOSTON . HOW wonderous this Starry Frame ! No Bounds or ...
... Courts ; Duties on Spirits imported , and on thofe diftilled within the United States ; with many other interefting Matters . • By OSGOOD CARLETON , Teacher of Mathematicks , in BOSTON . HOW wonderous this Starry Frame ! No Bounds or ...
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... court - yard was filled with cockatoos , poll parrots , and monkeys ; yet she felt herself lonely , and set her cap for a husband . There was a young Scotsman then in Boston who was agent for a British mercantile house . His name was ...
... court - yard was filled with cockatoos , poll parrots , and monkeys ; yet she felt herself lonely , and set her cap for a husband . There was a young Scotsman then in Boston who was agent for a British mercantile house . His name was ...
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... courts of law , except such as were kept or made in dollars and cents , ( which all the public offices and banks already do , ) the evil would soon be removed without other coercion than that of self - interest.1 Most of us can remember ...
... courts of law , except such as were kept or made in dollars and cents , ( which all the public offices and banks already do , ) the evil would soon be removed without other coercion than that of self - interest.1 Most of us can remember ...
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... courts of princes and noblemen , " and so on . " If the native be a maiden , she will be witty , honest , and modest ; of a willing mind , diligent and circum- spect ; and shall be married about the age of fifteen years . " This last ...
... courts of princes and noblemen , " and so on . " If the native be a maiden , she will be witty , honest , and modest ; of a willing mind , diligent and circum- spect ; and shall be married about the age of fifteen years . " This last ...
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... court . ( 1836. ) A PREDICTION . Much this year will be done That many will wish undone . ( 1840. ) Bachelors and maids , don't despair , Time has brought about leap year . ( 1844. ) This is truly a rough - hewn couplet and it comes ...
... court . ( 1836. ) A PREDICTION . Much this year will be done That many will wish undone . ( 1840. ) Bachelors and maids , don't despair , Time has brought about leap year . ( 1844. ) This is truly a rough - hewn couplet and it comes ...
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Page 305 - It is the very error of the moon ; She comes more near the earth than she was wont ; And makes men mad.
Page 171 - Doom'd o'er the world through devious paths to roam, Each clime my country, and each house my home, My soul is soothed, my cares have found an end, I greet my long lost, unforgotten friend. For thee through Paris, that corrupted town, How long in vain I wandered up and down, Where shameless Bacchus, with his drenching hoard, Cold from his cave usurps the morning board. London is lost in smoke and...
Page 115 - WITCH. Round about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i
Page 170 - The days grow short; but though the falling sun To the glad swain proclaims his day's work done, Night's pleasing shades his various tasks prolong, And yield new subjects to my various song. For now, the corn-house...
Page 299 - Some such motive, we doubt not, moved one or two of our natural and experimental philosophers to get up the project of a railroad from Boston to Albany ; — a project, which every one knows, — who knows the simplest rules in arithmetic, — to be impracticable but at an expense little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts; and which, if practicable, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the Moon.
Page 370 - I would smoke it? (a usual compliment now a days, among the saints and sinners), but this no way suited me. For though I had formerly used tobacco, yet I had left it ever since I was first taken. It seems to be a bait the devil lays to make men lose their precious time.
Page 356 - You are a child — you cannot understand matters of war — let your brother or your chief come — him will I answer.
Page 149 - Ye sons of Columbia, who bravely have fought For those rights, which unstained from your sires had descended, May you long taste the blessings your valor has bought, And your sons reap the soil which their fathers defended.
Page 149 - Mid the reign of mild Peace, May your nation increase, With the glory of Rome and the wisdom of Greece ; And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Page 45 - I have consulted the star of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever ; therefore I advise him to consider of it, and settle his affairs in time.