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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... looks back over the past with modest pride . His annual had become a recognized New England insti- tution , and his feeling that his yearly admonitions were now read by the grandsons of his first patrons and corre- spondents lends ...
... looks back over the past with modest pride . His annual had become a recognized New England insti- tution , and his feeling that his yearly admonitions were now read by the grandsons of his first patrons and corre- spondents lends ...
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... look , as we pride ourselves in looking , a little old - fashioned , a little too independent to change our dress for each " new - fangled notion " a little " t'other side of fifty . " --- Friends and Patrons ! The form of the editor ...
... look , as we pride ourselves in looking , a little old - fashioned , a little too independent to change our dress for each " new - fangled notion " a little " t'other side of fifty . " --- Friends and Patrons ! The form of the editor ...
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... look to the cellar , the roofs of your house and barn , and the wood - pile , and to putting away your ploughs and other utensils before winter set in ? Your children , of course , go to meeting and to school regularly ! Do you take a ...
... look to the cellar , the roofs of your house and barn , and the wood - pile , and to putting away your ploughs and other utensils before winter set in ? Your children , of course , go to meeting and to school regularly ! Do you take a ...
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... looks ill favouredly without a Nose , so doth an Almanack without a Scheme . " Astrology turns up now and then in the theses discussed by candidates for the degree of Master of Arts at Harvard College , and that too at a comparatively ...
... looks ill favouredly without a Nose , so doth an Almanack without a Scheme . " Astrology turns up now and then in the theses discussed by candidates for the degree of Master of Arts at Harvard College , and that too at a comparatively ...
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... look with an angry face ; yet I do not think things are yet ripe for Action , or fit for what they are 7 design'd . Yet a little while and you'll see . 8 9 New ΙΟ II 12 13 9 day , 3 ho . 53 min . afternoon . If his Majesty of Poland was ...
... look with an angry face ; yet I do not think things are yet ripe for Action , or fit for what they are 7 design'd . Yet a little while and you'll see . 8 9 New ΙΟ II 12 13 9 day , 3 ho . 53 min . afternoon . If his Majesty of Poland was ...
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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.