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共 21 段- "I never," said he, "had taste or inclination for it, always
- "Self-reliance," he says, "is a grand element of character:
- To this day, no perfect time-keeper has ever been made. From
- Even as a child he showed that power of keeping on, to which
- So passed his life until he reached the age of thirty-seven,
- Edward Coles, a graduate of William and Mary college, was tw
- Gerrit Smith, the son of this strong and perturbed spirit, w
- We have almost forgotten that such a gay mode of crossing th
- But now as to the question above proposed. Why are the opera
- This as recently as 1815! Mr. Holyoake himself remarks that,
- Thus it was that a young lady changed the stamp system of he
- But his parents objecting to the tobacconist's trade, he was
- "I know a dozen men in New York who could make a good paper,
- The editor himself would have written the advertisement for
- Old readers of the London "Times" were a little surprised, p
- He was now in his element. The lowliest employments of the s
- In 1815 the peace with Great Britain, which gave such ecstas
- Paris-Duverney was as good a man and patriot as a man could
- In the first place, he was the lawyer of his parish, as well
- Thirty firms competed for the contract for building the new
- The new clerk, although by nature a very honest young fellow