Muskingum Legends: With Other Sketches and Papers Descriptive of the Young Men of Germany and the Old Boys of AmericaJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 - 360 sider |
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... lives of poverty , they have an unbroken holiday , and many of the more sober ones wander vacantly about the streets , in a sad perplexity what to do with themselves . Others , collected under the spreading lindens , sought to cheat ...
... lives of poverty , they have an unbroken holiday , and many of the more sober ones wander vacantly about the streets , in a sad perplexity what to do with themselves . Others , collected under the spreading lindens , sought to cheat ...
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... lives , to extract blood from a man's veins instead of beer . The next day I passed through spectacles of the most wonderfully minute and unceasing toil . In a planted pinery , where the trees were become too large to be plowed , there ...
... lives , to extract blood from a man's veins instead of beer . The next day I passed through spectacles of the most wonderfully minute and unceasing toil . In a planted pinery , where the trees were become too large to be plowed , there ...
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... live in the same manner , but in still more deplorable squalor . They live largely off beets and other vegetables , and greens snipped out of the fields , in consequence of which their faces are very fluffy and pulpy . They seem to have ...
... live in the same manner , but in still more deplorable squalor . They live largely off beets and other vegetables , and greens snipped out of the fields , in consequence of which their faces are very fluffy and pulpy . They seem to have ...
Side 125
... lives ; but , if they long to come to America , an honest analysis of their minds would evolve the unheroic fact that most of them are distinctly conscious of no higher purpose than to be able to acquire a more ample quantum of meat and ...
... lives ; but , if they long to come to America , an honest analysis of their minds would evolve the unheroic fact that most of them are distinctly conscious of no higher purpose than to be able to acquire a more ample quantum of meat and ...
Side 128
... live Ameri- can under his roof . He rehearsed to them , with an almost childish eager- ness , all my noble qualities , together with those of Amer- ican vegetables ; every man the while looking at me with his two round eyes , with many ...
... live Ameri- can under his roof . He rehearsed to them , with an almost childish eager- ness , all my noble qualities , together with those of Amer- ican vegetables ; every man the while looking at me with his two round eyes , with many ...
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Muskingum Legends: With Other Sketches and Papers Descriptive of the Young ... Stephen Powers Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1871 |
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Alphas American ancient Annie arms army Austria Aztlan battle battle of Sadowa beer began behold beneath bitter blood Boise City boys brave California corps cried Daddy Childs death destroying bands drink duel Erlangen eyes face farmer father Fatherland fell fellow fierce fight fraternities Frémont gave German Göttingen ground hand head heart heaven Herr honor horses Jena Jolie Kaiser Kinck king labor land Liberty literary clubs little Tim Pliny live looked Magyars maize mighty morning nation Neutrals never night noble Omegas once Paleface party passed Pimos Pinbury political Polly poor Prussia Pulp rapier rebel river sacred San Antone Sargent secret societies seemed Senior Convention silence slavery smile soul speak Square stand Tammany things thou thought tion took turned universities utter village voice wigwams wonderful word young
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Side 353 - And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
Side 75 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood : If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Side 162 - Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
Side 304 - They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.
Side 317 - That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Side 24 - Hunts in their meadows, and his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone...
Side 299 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Side 230 - HARK ! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armed men the hum ; Lo ! a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum, — Saying, " Come, Freemen, come ! Ere your heritage be wasted," said the quick alarming drum.
Side 9 - And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Side 78 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...