Selections from the Miscellaneous Writings of Dr. George W. Bagby ...Whittet & Shepperson, 1885 |
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... boys are never sick . With regard to the intelligence of the hog , I need only recall to your memory the learned pigs , who read the alphabet with facility , and even spell names . A case is recorded in Greeley's American Conflict of an ...
... boys are never sick . With regard to the intelligence of the hog , I need only recall to your memory the learned pigs , who read the alphabet with facility , and even spell names . A case is recorded in Greeley's American Conflict of an ...
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... boys were crammed with the best bacon in the land , received in boxes from home , we " flaxed " ' em handsomely in every encounter , and we continued to flax them . until we consumed our own bacon , and - thanks to the exertions of the ...
... boys were crammed with the best bacon in the land , received in boxes from home , we " flaxed " ' em handsomely in every encounter , and we continued to flax them . until we consumed our own bacon , and - thanks to the exertions of the ...
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... the benches where the little boys sit , and even in the schoolmaster's chair . The result is a severe battle with the schoolmaster and his permanent dismissal . Thrown upon the world , he consoles himself with bacon BACON AND GREENS . 19.
... the benches where the little boys sit , and even in the schoolmaster's chair . The result is a severe battle with the schoolmaster and his permanent dismissal . Thrown upon the world , he consoles himself with bacon BACON AND GREENS . 19.
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... boy is running up from the " new ground " to take your horse , a mulatto girl is flying , with a pail on her head , to the spring for fresh water and a jug of milk . Two or three little negroes are chasing the chickens whose necks are ...
... boy is running up from the " new ground " to take your horse , a mulatto girl is flying , with a pail on her head , to the spring for fresh water and a jug of milk . Two or three little negroes are chasing the chickens whose necks are ...
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... boys and girls , —the noble products of a social system which mankind has united to put down , —for the native Virginian , as we now find him , is almost entirely alone , his family being scattered far and wide - all married and ...
... boys and girls , —the noble products of a social system which mankind has united to put down , —for the native Virginian , as we now find him , is almost entirely alone , his family being scattered far and wide - all married and ...
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Page 366 - T is but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 344 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 366 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 366 - Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat, Were shaped the anchors of thy hope.
Page 365 - I saw an emblem of the devouring activity, and ceaseless, restless, beating whirlpool of existence in the United States. But into the moonlight sky there rose a cloud of spray twice as high as the Falls themselves, silent, majestic, immovable.
Page 18 - He must now learn to cut jackets, play hard-ball, choose partners for cat and chermany, be kept in, fight every other day, and be turned out for painting his face with pokeberry juice and grinning at the school-master. After a good whipping from his father, who threatens to apprentice him to a carpenter, he enjoys his holiday by breaking colts and shooting field-larks in the daytime and by possum-hunting or listening to ghost-stories from the negroes in the night. Returning to school, he studies...
Page 181 - Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time Sarmatia fell unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe...
Page 35 - Of this hot and touchy nature is the native Virginian. Further it is said of the boar : " He hath a knack, when stabbed, of running up the shaft of the spear, so as to gore his slayer even in his own death-pang." Am I treading upon dangerous ground? Be not disturbed. The Virginian is not going to run up the shaft of the spear; he is not going to gore his slayer, for he is not going to be slain. Not less brave than other men, he nevertheless objects to dying while there is anything left to live for...
Page 164 - I could not if I would, and would not if I could, harm any one through the mental method of Mind-healing, or in any manner.
Page 365 - I looked on that ever-changing movement, and listened to that everlasting roar, I saw an emblem of the devouring activity, and ceaseless, restless, beating whirlpool of existence in the United States. But into the moonlight sky there rose a cloud of spray twice as high as the Falls...