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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... land where the farm was situated was called , was united to the Second or West Parish of Lan- caster in 1768. In 1781 this parish was incorporated as the town of Sterling . In 1796 certain parts of Boylston , Sterling , and Holden were ...
... land where the farm was situated was called , was united to the Second or West Parish of Lan- caster in 1768. In 1781 this parish was incorporated as the town of Sterling . In 1796 certain parts of Boylston , Sterling , and Holden were ...
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... land to various parts , and being ( while young ) mostly conversant with the English , he lost some of the country dialect , which gives rise to the above disputes . * Several Englishmen have disputed his being born in America . BOSTON ...
... land to various parts , and being ( while young ) mostly conversant with the English , he lost some of the country dialect , which gives rise to the above disputes . * Several Englishmen have disputed his being born in America . BOSTON ...
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... land . There was reasonable assurance that the United States govern- ment would succeed . The strong men of the Revolutionary period were in the vigor of mature manhood . It was a time of energetic and intelligent effort in all ...
... land . There was reasonable assurance that the United States govern- ment would succeed . The strong men of the Revolutionary period were in the vigor of mature manhood . It was a time of energetic and intelligent effort in all ...
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... land and water , puffing and groaning , and pulling or pushing enormous masses with fury along , now here , now there , as the master spirit which controlled them might dictate . Fifty years ago , the worthy fathers and mothers of the ...
... land and water , puffing and groaning , and pulling or pushing enormous masses with fury along , now here , now there , as the master spirit which controlled them might dictate . Fifty years ago , the worthy fathers and mothers of the ...
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... land , fifty years since a barren wilderness , has been partly peopled . The Turk has recognized the Jew as a human being and a brother ; he has exchanged dress with the Christian . Within the past fifty years science has done wonders ...
... land , fifty years since a barren wilderness , has been partly peopled . The Turk has recognized the Jew as a human being and a brother ; he has exchanged dress with the Christian . Within the past fifty years science has done wonders ...
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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.