The Writings of Mark Twain: see Old Catalog -. 23. The man that corrupted Hadleyburg and other essays and storiesAmerican Publishing Company, 1901 |
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Sida 226 - With faire discourse the evening so they pas : For that olde man of pleasing wordes had store, And well could file his tongue as smooth as glas, He told of Saintes and Popes, and evermore He strowd an Ave-Mary after and before.
Sida 181 - ... a courage that rose as she consulted with her counsel and understood the methods of criminal procedure in New York. She was greatly depressed, however, by the news from Washington. Congress had adjourned and her 'bill had failed to pass the Senate. It must wait for the next session. CHAPTER XVII. MR. BIGLER HELPED OUT WHILE MR. BOLTON RUNS IN DEBT — In our werking, nothing us availle; For lost is all our labour and travaille, And all the cost a twenty devil way Is lost also, which we upon it...
Sida 55 - Well " — hesitated the Colonel — " I am afraid some of them do buy their seats — yes, I am afraid they do — but as Senator Dilworthy himself said to me, it is sinful, — it is very wrong — it is shameful ; Heaven protect me from such a charge. That is what Dilworthy said. And yet when you come to look at it you cannot deny that we would have to go without the services of some of our ablest men, sir, if the country were opposed to — to — bribery. It is a harsh term. I do not like to...
Sida 297 - Perhaps it did not occur to the nation of good and worthy people that, while they continued to sit comfortably at home and leave the true source of our political power (the " primaries ") in the hands of saloon-keepers, dog-fanciers, and hodcarriers, they could go on expecting " another " case of this kind, and even dozens and hundreds of them, and never be disappointed.
Sida 206 - American society, of his age, opportunities, education, and abilities, who have really been educated for nothing and have let themselves drift, in the hope that they will find somehow, and by some sudden turn of good luck, the golden road to fortune. He was not idle or lazy; he had energy and a disposition to carve his own way. But he was born into a time when all young men of his age caught the fever of speculation, and expected to get on in the world by the omission of some of the regular processes...