American Wit and Humor, Band 1Review of Reviews Company, 1907 |
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... better times ? We may make these times better , if we bestir ourselves . Industry need not wish , as Poor Richard says , and He that lives on hope will die fasting . There are no gains without pains ; then help , hands ! for I have no ...
... better times ? We may make these times better , if we bestir ourselves . Industry need not wish , as Poor Richard says , and He that lives on hope will die fasting . There are no gains without pains ; then help , hands ! for I have no ...
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... better memories than debtors ; and in another place says , Creditors are a superstitious set , great observers of set days and times . The day comes round before you are aware , and the demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy ...
... better memories than debtors ; and in another place says , Creditors are a superstitious set , great observers of set days and times . The day comes round before you are aware , and the demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy ...
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... I resolved to be the better for the echo of it ; and , though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat , I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer . Reader , if thou wilt do the same 13 Benjamin Franklin.
... I resolved to be the better for the echo of it ; and , though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat , I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer . Reader , if thou wilt do the same 13 Benjamin Franklin.
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... better die than be cured so dolefully . Per- mit me just to hint , that I have also not been unfriendly to you . I never feed physician or quack of any kind , to enter the list against you ; if then you do not leave me to my repose , it ...
... better die than be cured so dolefully . Per- mit me just to hint , that I have also not been unfriendly to you . I never feed physician or quack of any kind , to enter the list against you ; if then you do not leave me to my repose , it ...
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... better , would have advised me not to rely on him , as I afterward heard it as his known character to be liberal of promises which he never meant to keep . Yet , unsolicited as he was by me , how could I think his generous offers ...
... better , would have advised me not to rely on him , as I afterward heard it as his known character to be liberal of promises which he never meant to keep . Yet , unsolicited as he was by me , how could I think his generous offers ...
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American Amos Shuttle ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE Baltus Van Tassel beauty Blossom bob'd Brom Bones Bullet called Caran d'Ache caricature cartoons chairs Congress Hall cousin Pete Crismus Deacon dear dollars door Doubletrouble Dutch eyes Fliegende Blätter Franklin friends Garcia gentleman Gillray give Gout gwine hand hanging happy head hear heard heart Heidegger Higginbotham horse hour Hubblebubble Huldy humor Ichabod Ichabod Crane jist keep Kimballton kind knew lady laugh live look Malibran Medbourne mind Miss morning never Nicholas night Parker's Falls pedler person Phrenology pig-pen political Poor Richard says pretty pseudosciences Punch road round Sam Patch says Huldy Schulemberg seemed sleep Sleepy Hollow soul spirit stood story talk tell thing thou thought tion told trees turned walk whistle whole woman wonder Wouter Van Twiller wuzzled young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 7 - If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like, serve yourself. A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
Seite 239 - So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke — That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Seite 240 - Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace, bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he "put her through.
Seite 242 - At half-past nine by the meet'n-house clock, — Just the hour of the Earthquake shock ! — What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around ? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground ! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once, — All at once, and nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they burst.
Seite 100 - ... by a bit of broken looking-glass that hung up in the schoolhouse. That he might make his appearance before his mistress in the true style of a cavalier, he borrowed a horse from the farmer with whom he was domiciliated, a choleric old Dutchman of the name of Hans Van Ripper, and, thus gallantly mounted, issued forth, like a knight-errant in quest of adventures. But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero and his steed....
Seite 241 - Fifty-five! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson — Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text — Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses — was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill.
Seite 240 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Seite 5 - Hope will die fasting. There are no Gains without Pains; then Help, Hands, for I have no Lands, or if I have, they are smartly taxed.
Seite 244 - THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN. IT was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side, His shop was just upon the bank, his boat was on the tide ; The daughter of a fisherman, that was so straight and slim, Lived over on the other bank, right opposite to him. It was the pensive oysterman that saw a lovely maid, Upon a moonlight evening, a-sitting in the shade : He saw her wave her handkerchief, as much as if to say, "I'm wide awake, young oysterman, and all the folks away.
Seite 111 - In the centre of the road stood an enormous tulip-tree, which towered like a giant above all the other trees of the neighborhood, and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air.