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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... miles . His subsequent career is summed up by his son , who says that it would be difficult if not impossible to follow it step by step . He still kept school at intervals , became assistant in a store , " and afterwards " went into a ...
... miles . His subsequent career is summed up by his son , who says that it would be difficult if not impossible to follow it step by step . He still kept school at intervals , became assistant in a store , " and afterwards " went into a ...
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... mile north of the street . " His account of this experience , though brief , is not without interest , for it gives one an inkling of his philosophy of life . " I flattered myself , " he writes , " and was flattered by the doctor , of ...
... mile north of the street . " His account of this experience , though brief , is not without interest , for it gives one an inkling of his philosophy of life . " I flattered myself , " he writes , " and was flattered by the doctor , of ...
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... miles . Every double letter is to pay double the said rates ; every triple letter , triple ; every packet weighing ... miles , and not exceeding of paper , conveyed not exceeding 40 miles , 8 cents . 90 IO Over 90 do . 150 12 Over 150 do ...
... miles . Every double letter is to pay double the said rates ; every triple letter , triple ; every packet weighing ... miles , and not exceeding of paper , conveyed not exceeding 40 miles , 8 cents . 90 IO Over 90 do . 150 12 Over 150 do ...
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... Miles . 40 90 150 Cents . 12 Miles . 300 15 500 184 For more than 500 Cents . 251 30 37 No allowance is to be made for intermediate miles . Every double letter is to pay double the said rates ; every triple letter , triple ; every ...
... Miles . 40 90 150 Cents . 12 Miles . 300 15 500 184 For more than 500 Cents . 251 30 37 No allowance is to be made for intermediate miles . Every double letter is to pay double the said rates ; every triple letter , triple ; every ...
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... Miles distant from this town , " in 1719. The description is re- inforced by a very disagreeable cut on the cover . Besides this monstrosity , we have a large portrait of " J - n D - k - ns - n , Esq ; Barrister at Law , " that is John ...
... Miles distant from this town , " in 1719. The description is re- inforced by a very disagreeable cut on the cover . Besides this monstrosity , we have a large portrait of " J - n D - k - ns - n , Esq ; Barrister at Law , " that is John ...
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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.