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Side 269 - nodded to me kindly, as if he would show the spectators that, on the whole, he thought me a very good sort of a fellow ! After the lecture was over, the audience approached to examine us, taking a great many amiable liberties with our persons, and otherwise showing that we were deemed curiosities
Side 286 - we are truly a free and an independent commonwealth, and we hold every citizen as amenable to public opinion, in all he does, says, thinks or wishes." " Pray, sir, do both of the two great political lines send their tails to the same mills, and respect the same general sentiments
Side 454 - he shouldn't be ashamed, hereafter, to look both Deacon Snort and the Parson in the face, when he got home, or even Miss Poke. He knew what it was to have a clean conscience, as well as any man; for none so well knew what it Was to be without anything, as they who had
Side 490 - That it is not an infallible sign of great mental refinement to bespatter our fellow-creatures, while every nerve is writhing in honor of our pigs, our cats, our stocks and our stones. That we seldom learn moderation under any political excitement, until forty thousand square miles of territory are blown from beneath our feet That
Side 407 - Nothing of this is practised in Leaplow. There, the supposition of legitimacy is as much in favor of the youngest as of the oldest born, and the practice is in conformity. As there is no hereditary chief to poise on one of the legs of the great tripod, the people at the foot of the
Side 156 - But, Sir John Goldencalf, the Socratic method of reasoning " " Was first resorted to by yourself, my Lord—" " Nay, good Sir •'* " Permit me, my dear Lord " " Sir John " " My Lord " Hereupon the gentle Chatterissa again advanced, and by another timely interposition of her graceful tact, she succeeded in preventing the reply.
Side 319 - the Kingdom of Leaphigh and our beloved country. If they would now only do us justice in the very important affair of the long-standing and long-neglected redress, which we have been seeking in vain at their hands, for the last seventy-two years, I should say that our relations were on the best possible footing. Sir,
Side 136 - purple ; or, to translate the appellation, my Lord Chatterino. This young lady is No. 4, violet, or, my Lady Chatterissa. This excellent and prudent matron is No. 4,626,243, russet, or, Mistress Vigilance Lynx, to translate her appellation also into the English tongue ; and that I am No. 22,817, brown-study-color, or, Dr. Reasono, to
Side 124 - In reply, I assented to the latter idea, suggesting the expediency of getting one or two of the higher castes from the north ; I had no objection to preaching, provided they preached work; but I cautioned the overseer particularly against schismatics. Preaching, in the abstract, could do no narm ; all depending on doctrine.
Side 235 - and received; and a few minutes afterwards, a certificate in the following words was put into my hands, viz.— " Leaphigh, season of promise, day of performance: Whereas, certain persons of the human species have lately presented themselves to be enregistered, according to the statute 'For the promotion of order and classification, and for