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we could give a variety of good reasons for so doing yet it would be an ill natured act to deprive the public of such an admirable opportunity to indulge in their favourite amusement of besides we have ever considered aa and opinions h a beneath persons of onr dignity to for oar or en we are not like the unhappy rule...	48
even from the admiration of the world these observations bring to mind a little in one of the of the sage which being in some measure ap to the subject of this essay we for the benefit of our fair readers among the numerous race of the who people the vast tracts of is a small tribe remarkable for their habits of solitu...	48
country and the brightest of literature we daily hear of of failures and they are trifling which from their excite but little astonishment or sympathy but it is not often that we hear of a man s letting immortality slip through his fingers and when he does meet with such a misfortune who would deny him the comfort of h...	48
s there a more lucky idea it at once gave me occupation and amusement the writing of a book was considered tin to the r in old times as an enterprise of toil and difficulty that the most trifling was a work and the world talked with awe and reverence of the labours of the learned these matters are better understood ...	48
me and described the very person who told it still it has been received as an adventure that happened to myself now i protest i never met with any adventure of the kind i should not have grieved at this had it not been intimated by the author of in an introduction to his novel of of the peak that he v was himself the s...	48
the old lady appeared in her suit of faded which with and agitation for in spite of our host s she the hunting dinner was a little perplexed but in a bachelor s house and with bachelor guests these matters are readily managed there is no lady of the house to stand upon points about lodging gentlemen in odd holes and co...	48
whole of but was pinned to the wall like a butterfly by the of a and his heroic soul was borne up to heaven on his de pigeon but all this has nothing to do with my story to the point then when the hour arrived for for the night my uncle was shown to his room in a venerable old tower it was the oldest part of the and h...	48
earnestly at her she remained for some time standing by the fire which flashing up at intervals cast blue and white of light the adventure of my uncle that enabled my uncle to remark her appearance her face was ghastly pale and perhaps rendered still more so by the light of the fire it possessed beauty but its beauty w...	48
gate is there to this very day opening upon a narrow bridge over a deep between the castle an the brow of the hill she was followed by her female attendants a few and some gallant who still remained faithful to her fortunes her object was to gain a small i d the adventure of my uncle port about two distant where she ha...	48
with my went on gravely however and related the whole circumstance the heard him through with profound attention the adventure of my uncle holding his snuff box in his hand when the story was finished he tapped on the lid of his box deliberately took a long pinch of snuff said the and walked towards the other end of th...	48
her night dress and thinking of the squire her sigh was re echoed or answered by a long drawn breath she looked round but no one was to be seen she ascribed these sounds to the wind through the rat holes of the old mansion and proceeded leisurely to put her hair in papers when all at once she thought she perceived one ...	48
the adventures of their and faith and i even give you a chapter out of my own family history e the bold or the adventure of my grandfather my grandfather was a bold for its a profession d ye see that has run in the family all my forefathers have been and died on the field of honour except myself and i hope my posterity...	48
very night as he said this he gave a slap on his by way of emphasis the slap went to the landlady s heart the bold he followed up the vow by jumping off his horse and making his way past the staring into the public room may be you ve been in the bar room of an old inn faith but a handsome chamber it was as you d wi...	48
was in a fever heat he lay still however until all the house was quiet excepting the of the from the different chambers who answered one another in all kinds of tones and like so many in a swamp the the house became the more became my grandfather he warmer and warmer until at length the bed became too hot to hold him t...	48
in that room and as they declared this upon their honours there could not remain a doubt upon the subject and did your grandfather go to bed again in that room said the inquisitive gentleman that s more than i can tell where he passed the rest of the night was a secret he never disclosed in fact though he had seen much...	48
sat here on the strand of existence from which all that was dear to her had been launched into eternity he approached and addressed her in the accents of sympathy she raised her head and gazed wildly at him what was his astonishment at beholding by the bright glare of the lightning the very face which had him in his dr...	48
police was summoned as the officer of police entered the room he started back on beholding the corpse great heaven cried he how did this woman come here do you know any thing about her said eagerly do i exclaimed the police officer she was yesterday he stepped forward the black collar round the neck of the corpse and t...	48
all this was half muttered to myself as i hastily slipped on my clothes which having done i my way out of the room and down stairs to the drawing room here after tumbling over two or three pieces of furniture i made out to reach a sofa and stretching myself the adventure of upon it determined to there for the night the...	48
and he appeared hardly to have recovered from one shock before i saw him slowly preparing to another after sitting some time in the the party paid for the refreshment they had taken and departed the young man was the last to leave the saloon and i remarked him glancing behind him in the same way just as he passed out o...	48
come come said i there is no grief so great that youth cannot it no no said he his teeth and striking repeatedly with the energy of despair on his it is here here deep rooted my heart s blood it grows and grows while my heart and i have a dreadful that gives me no repose that follows me step by and will follow me st...	48
stranger surprised by all the scene that i had not been able to say a word but we shall meet again said i hastily as i saw him hurrying towards the door never never in this world said he solemnly he sprang once more to my bedside seized my hand pressed it to his heart and to his lips and rushed out of the room here ...	48
from the and its vicinity and a dreary world it appeared to me an early tinge of melancholy was thus into my character and the dismal stories of the about devils and evil spirits with which they my young imagination gave me a tendency to which i could never effectually shake off they took the same delight to work my ar...	48
that i might not be sent back to the he received me with the condescension of a patron rather than the fondness of a parent listened patiently but coldly to my tale of and and promised to think what else could be done for me this coldness and drove back all the frank of my nature that was ready to spring forth at the l...	48
of a stranger and there was something in this one so benevolent and winning that in a moment he gained my confidence i told him my story and my situation concealing only my name and rank he appeared strongly interested by my recital invited me to the young italian his house and from that time i became his favourite pup...	48
lover and an of the arts and evidently wished to be thought so he fancied he saw in me indications of future excellence my pencil had already attracted attention he took me at once under his protection seeing that i was overwhelmed with grief and incapable of myself in the mansion of my late benefactor he invited me to...	48
to take advantage of her ignorance of the world of her confiding affection and draw her down to my own poverty was this the hospitality of the count was this the love of now first i began to feel that even successful love may have its bitterness a care gathered about my heart i moved about the palace like a guilty bein...	48
the i suffered at our being thus separated for to the youthful lover every day of absence is an age of love lost i enclosed the letter in one to who was the channel of our correspondence i received a reply from him full of friendship and sympathy from full of assurances of affection and constancy week after week month ...	48
that i might regain tranquillity for the approaching interview i myself for having suffered mere doubts and thus suddenly to overcome me but i was always prone to be carried away by of the feelings on entering the garden every thing bore the same look as when i had left it and this un the young italian l changed aspect...	48
in it more than she meant to reveal i saw with a glance how both of us had been betrayed tis well muttered i to myself in smothered accents of concentrated fury he shall render an of all this overheard me new terror flashed in her countenance for mercy s sake do not meet him say nothing of what has passed for my sake...	48
was at old s school in thb club of r fellows tie same said the her coolly why then we are old though it s no you don t recollect me i wm your junior by several years don t you recollect little jack me e ensued a scene of school end a world of talk about m school times and school mr ended by observing with a heavy sigh...	48
his pen should be dropping the honey of yet it is more than probable that he drew many of his of low life from the scenes which surrounded him in this abode the the club of queer fellows of mrs being to wash her husband s two shirts in a neighbour s house who ic to lend her may have been no rt of fancy but a fact passi...	48
that he should be the fortunate man j cannot tell you how vain i walked the streets my ha d was in the clouds i felt the airs of about it and fancied it a of as i by h of j would be among tl h sa d of the day and my on or cut on wa m f with time of and and fi the poor devil author when i applied at the s house there wa...	48
i was quite the poor devil author taken with the man for you must know i am a httle of a i set him down at once for either a poet or a philosopher as i like to make new acquaintances considering every man a of human nature i soon fell into conversation with the stranger who i was pleased to find was by no means difficu...	48
there were little knots of authors who lived with and for and by one another they considered themselves the salt of the earth they and kept up a conventional vein of thinking and talking and joking on au subjects and they cried each other up to the skies each had its particular and set up certain authors as and fell do...	48
not a more complete game at cross purposes than the intercourse of the literary and the great the fine gentleman is always anxious to be thought a wit and the wit a fine gentleman i have noticed a lord endeavouring to look wise and to talk with a man of letters who was at a fashionable air and the tone of a man who had...	48
very ancient and honourable but decayed family and resided in an old in he was a keen man and lived to the extent of his income so that i had little to expect from that quarter but then i had a rich uncle by the s side a who it was confidently expected would make me his heir because he was an old ba because i was named...	48
and i some glowing lines in which i the little lady under the favourite name of i slipped the verses trembling and blushing into her hand the next sunday as she came out of church the little handed them to her mamma the handed them to the squire the squire who had no soul for poetry sent them in to the and the with a w...	48
when the weather was fine i used to amuse myself in a solitary way by rambling about the park and like a across its the and seemed to stare with surprise to see a human being walking these forbidden grounds by daylight sometimes i amused myself by stones or shooting at birds with a bow and arrows for to have used a gun...	48
the school on a fine summer s day and instead of studying the book which lay open before me my eye was gazing through the window on the green fields and blue hills how i envied the groups seated on the tops of stage and joking and laughing as they were whirled by ihe school house on their way to the metropolis even the...	48
the and i might have derived a lesson from my actual feelings how much the charms of this world depend upon ourselves for i no longer saw any thing gay or delightful in the around me at length i lay down wearied and perplexed behind one of the large tents and covering myself with the margin of the tent cloth to keep of...	48
love of low company nor disposition to indulge in low vices i have always despised the vulgar and i have always had a disgust at vice whether in high or low life i was governed merely by a sudden and thoughtless impulse i had no idea of to this profession as a mode of life or of myself to these people as my future clas...	48
these magnificent beings i forbear to give a detail of the happy life i led about the skirts of the metropolis playing at the various held there during the latter part of spring and the beginning of summer this continued change from place to place and scene to fed my imagination with and kept my spirits in a perpetual ...	48
fugitive fair one to have a door now and then in my face to run head occasionally against a post to tumble and roll about with and the and to endure the hearty of s wooden sword as ill luck would have it my poetical began to within me and to work out new troubles the air of a great metropolis added to the rural scenes ...	48
to the phrase putting my head into when the gentle flew to my assistance god bless the women they are always on the side of the weak and the oppressed the battle now became general the ranged on either side the manager interposed in vain in vain were his black bonnet and towering white feathers seen about and nodding a...	48
i believe he thought of my poor mother at the time and his heart towards her child his eye when he received me at the door and he took me into his arms as the adopted child of his affections never had i been so fortunately placed he was one of those excellent members of our church who help out their narrow by a few gen...	48
neighbourhood he had his little flock of scholars his children as he used to call gathered round him in his moments and he gave us the parting advice of a father now that he had to leave us and we were to be separated from each other and scattered about in the world he took me by the hand and talked with me earnestly a...	48
we had a day s shooting together i delighted him with my skill and astonished him by my learned on horse flesh and on s guns so upon the whole he departed highly satisfied with my improvement at college i do not know how it is but i cannot be idle long without getting in love i had not been a very long time a man of sp...	48
man i tried to whistle off the recollection of her for there was always something of self reproach with it i drove gaily along the road enjoying the stare of and stable boys as i managed my horses down the steep street of when just at the skirts of the village one of the traces of my leader came loose i pulled up and a...	48
he lives in a round of animal and heartless habits but to a young man of poetical feelings it is an ideal world a scene of ment and delusion his imagination is in perpetual excitement and gives a spiritual zest to every pleasure a season of town life however somewhat me of my or rather i was rendered more serious by on...	48
as i had anticipated considering the of the place i found it very from other country places and that it was not so easy to make a dash there sinner that i was the very dignity and decorum of the little community was to me i feared my past idleness and folly would rise in judgment against me i stood in awe of the of the...	48
not a doubt that with my great expectations i could at any time raise funds either on or by but i was against both one and the other and resolved by strict economy to make my slender purse hold out until my uncle should give up the ghost or rather the estate i staid at home therefore and read and would have written but...	48
ent of the animals a great victory and a of ancient in which is set the true art of a bargain together with tbe miraculous escape of a great metropolis in a fog and the biography of certain of how tbe heroes of to how they there v how the heroes of returned wiser than they went and the sage ome dreamed a dream and the...	48
his conduct hi time of peace chap ii how peter was much by the moss of the east and the giants of and how a dark and horrid conspiracy was carried on in the british cabinet against the prosperity of the chap iii of peter expedition into the east country showing that though an old bird he did not understand trap i cha...	48
live fi ee if he would teach tbe their letters and to try her best and get the to send their children also but the old gentleman took it in such and seemed so at i w fa s g taken a that she never dared speak o tbe s l again two months ago he out of a morning with a bundle in his and has never been heard of since ah ki...	48
he might have risen to some post of honour and profit to be a public or even a justice in the tea pound court besides the honours and already mentioned he was much by the of mr john cook who entertained him y at bis library and reading room where they used to drink water and talk about the he found mr cook a man his ow...	48
slipping from our grasp ob the of narrative old age and day by day drop into the tomb in a little while thought t and those dutch who serve as the tottering monuments of good old times will be gathered to their their children engrossed by the empty pleasures or insignificant transactions of tha t neglect to treasure up...	48
that it is with seven mountains and ornamented in the centre b a rock of gold and that a occasionally up the moon which for the phenomena of besides these and many other equally sage opinions hare the profound conjectures of son of al son of son of so son of i who is called and but takes the humble title of which n the...	48
had a good at a the aad a reconciliation the world not to the he wisely to the to the world be therefore informed brother that the motion of the was no sooner en gen d by the above described than it became a of the which gave it origin his readily joined in the opinion being heartily f any that would decently and ever...	48
until they had time to make better one thing however appears firom the authority of the before quoted philosophers sup by the evidence of our own senses which apt to deceive us may be cautiously admitted as testimony it appears say and make the as deliberately without fear of contradiction that thia york ia was and th...	48
come from re it will be immediately asserted in this age of that did not come at all and if they did not come at all was this never a conclusion tl l agreeable to the rules logic but wholly to every feeling of humanity inasmuch as it m ist prove fatal to the innumerable of thb region to so dire a and to rescue n so ma...	48
to be lamented that none of the writers above quoted could ever his without immediately declaring against writer who had treated of the same subject in this authors be compared to a certain sagacious i which in building its nest is sure to pull to pieces the of all the birds in its this unhappy to the progress of sound...	48
the of the same nothing being necessary to establishment of this but simply to prove that it wm totally by man this would at appear ll be a point of some difficulty for it is well known that quarter of the world with certain animals m walked erect oo two feet had something of the b v c b i c uttered certain i ib e ver...	48
the first comers who had more wants and more elegant that is to say desires than themselves in entering upon a newly discovered therefore the new comers were but taking of what according to the doctrine was their own property therefore in opposing them the savages were their just rights the of nature and the will of t...	48
condition for having made them with the comforts of life lor having introduced g them the light of religion and finally for having them the world to enjoy its reward t aa is never so well understood by ns i mortals as when it comes home to ourselves and as particularly anxious that this question should be put t lor e...	48
went so far as to declare that this planet made of nothing more less green cheese v at these words the great man in the moon a very philosopher shall fall into a terrible passion and possessing equal authority over things that do not belong to him as did his the pope shall forthwith issue a formidable bull that wherea...	48
of going to work slowly and church came out of my s hands te most goodly glorious own excepting that like our magnificent t washington it was begun on so grand a scale good folks could not afford to more than of it so i trust if ever am enabled to h work on the plan have commenced of i truth sometimes have my doubts it...	48
fourth day of september entered that majestic bay which at this day its ample bosom before the city of new i nd which had before been visited by any i it i am not ignorant or the fact that in a i book of by one is to bs s written lo francis on q or mm to k t in our that when the f was tint with a view of mm he was f...	48
which on n confirmed the opinion upon this the ship was off and put about with great difficulty being like her sex exceeding hard to govern and according to the account of my great returned down the river with a in his ear satisfied that there was little of getting unless like the blind man he returned be set out and...	48
the foundation of a great dutch city oa ns ng a faithful report therefore to the crew of the they one all determined that this was the destined end of their voyage accordingly they descended from the men women sad children in goodly groups as did the of from the ark and formed themselves into a settlement which they ca...	48
b dow to assume a very appearance aiid under the general title of on account as the sage of ask sat to the dutch was truly excepting that the were and and the latter about this time the tranquillity of the was doomed to suffer a temporary in captain sir samuel under a mission from governor of virginia tke on on river ...	48
can foresee from the brow of when a tempest is gathering about his ears m moreover a of ghosts and and in but what especially recommended confidence was hb marvellous talent at ing for there never was any thing d consequence at but what be declared he had it one of those a thing it has come to pass is gift was as hig...	48
heroes of not a little troubled but as good fortune would at the bow of tbe s boat was stationed man named which being means a name given him in of no sooner did he behold these is he trembled with excessive and a good half mile distance he seized a f at hand and turning away head fired it most in tbe face of the bless...	48
a tide and his feeble among the of a and thus it with the of who little the scene before them drifted quietly on they were aroused by an uncommon tossing and of their vessels for now the late current to around them and tbe waves to boil and foam new york awakened ai if from a dream the e aloud to put about but his word...	48
such times it is a man s h bis that be may more truly be said to and bis speeches abound with kindness and thus the worthy having last possible morsel and washed it down with felt hb heart yearning and his whole fr with unbounded benevolence thing around him seemed excellent and delight laying bis hands on each side ...	48
our worthy who purchased of the native indians before a single roof singular and almost incredible in the annals discovery and the first settlement was made on the south west point the island on the very spot the good si i appeared in the dream here they built a mighty d fort and trading house called fort which stood o...	48
neighbours was liable to and i have my was a very wise old woman and well in ihe of these parts tell a long story of a a battle between the new ma at which was known by the of and took place near a which for a long while went by the the of thb war was long the old wives ai other ancient tor ft but time and have t the...	48
however it is there never was a matter proposed however simple and on which your common mortals would determine at the glance but what the renowned put on a mighty vacant kind of look shook his head ma having smoked for five minutes with earnestness observed that he had his doubts the matter which in process of time ...	48
egyptian to understand the r took them one after another and having poised in his hands and attentively counted over the r of leaves fell straightway into a very great doubt for half an hour without saying a word at laying bis finger beside his nose and shutting hb a moment with the air of a man who has just a subtle i...	48
in general very of their ease and comfort being great enemies to noise discord and disturbance and surely none are more likely to study the public tranquillity than those who are so of their own who ever of fat men heading a riot or hiding together in turbulent it is your lean hungry men who are continually worrying ...	48
public employ and especially promoted to your keen like being con too sharp for service know that it is to rail at the unequal distribution of riches as the l cot of and heart wh ere n a for ay part verily believe it is the sad of intellect that prevail that more any thing else i have remarked that your knowing people...	48
i will not grieve their patience however by the increase and improvement of new their own will doubtless present to the good like so many pains and yo r slowly and surely their labours j will behold the prosperous from the rude log hut to the stately dutch mansion with brick front windows and roof from the tangled thi...	48
liis pipe looking in the fire with half shut eyes and thinking of nothing for hours together j the on the opposite side would employ herself in her or knitting stockings the young folks would crowd around the hearth listening with breathless attention to some old of a st who was the trade of the family and who i of a i...	48
little vain these were the honest days in which every woman staid at home read the bible and wore ay and that too of a goodly size fashioned with into many devices and worn on the outside these in tact were convenient where all good carefully stored away such as they wished to have at hand by which means they often cam...	48
of heaven cloud rolling ud like successive the of the vast expanse and bearing thunder and tempest in its bosom the earth ms agitated of the the late y of into that roll broken oi in to the the that in the placid of island now hurry to the the late dignified and before the merciless descending torrents of rain and hail...	48
this which is in newspapers pot and tions which the right of witb and without of of public of and destroying little ones in that of our country the of of the land for a while strange folk in utter astonishment j but that they harmless though noisy and were a lively ingenious good humoured men they became very friendl...	48
done ht shoulders his axe takes his staff in i yankee and off to the wc as of the protection of providence and at cheerfully upon his own resources as did en or when he into a of o having buried himself in new to m m he a but dean com providence upon bis is soon surrounded by a snug and half r who by their seem all at ...	48
kind of of history which had laid nearly for ages buried under the rubbish of years and almost totally forgotten up the limbs and fragments of facts and endeavouring to put together so as to restore them to their original form and now the character of an almost forgotten hero like a statue now a half m and now lighti...	48
a nation and when an of hair decision is worth a pound of sage doubts and cautious such at least was tl case at present for while the renowned van was daily with his doubts and his growing weaker and weaker in the contest the enemy pushed further and farther into his and assumed a most formidable appearance in the neig...	48
all the and in such case made and provided this he assured them would at once the enemy from the face of the country and he pledged his as a governor that within two months after it was published not one stone should remain ou another in any of the towns which they had the council remained for some time silent after he...	48
river he further stated that the enemy persisted in their taking no notice of the fort or its inhabitants but themselves down and all around it so that in a little while he should find himself enclosed and by the enemy and totally at their mercy but among the most of his grievance find the still on record which may ser...	48
make particular mention finally he swore that he would hare nothing more to do with such a building questioning eating mo watering notion crew that they might stay at fort and rot before he would dirty his hands by attempting to drive them away in proof of he the new raised troops to be marched forthwith into winter ...	48
large share of the ood wi l of bis fellow citizens when the only thing that could be said in his was that he gave a good dinner and kept excellent wine since then the heart and the stomach are so nearly allied it follows that what affects the one must affect the other now it is an equally fact that of all to the stomac...	48
those are the very moments of anxiety and apprehension well knowing that according to the system of things happiness is at best but transient and that the higher be is elevated by the of the lower must be his depression whereas he who is overwhelmed by calamity has the less chance of fresh as a man at the bottom of a l...	48
with his customary facility hi immediately into his great scheme of government to the injury and of the honest province of and the eternal of all rulers in vain have i over the of the the of the jews the of the the magic of the the of the english the of the or of the indians to discover where the little man laid his ey...	48
or for popularity he ordained that whoever proposed a new law should do it with a about his neck so that in case his proposition was rejected they just hang him up and there the matter ended this institution had such an effect that for than two hundred years there was only one trifling alteration in the code and the wh...	48
been nearly ruined by a which was decide against me and my ruin having completed by another which was decided in my it has been remarked by the observant writer of the manuscript that under the of the disposition of the inhabitants of new experienced an essential change so that they became very and the constant of temp...	48
for it i have known two or three of these tales of terror to be bought up by government for the sovereign people to amuse themselves withal which goes further to prove what i have before asserted that your enlightened people love to be miserable far be it from me to however that our worthy ancestors indulged in j on th...	48
not whether that be y or is d c new the most probable account and lo which i am inclined to give my faith is contained in a very obscure tradition which declares that what with the constant troubled on his the incessant and projects going on in his own the and sage pieces of advice from divers respectable meetings of...	48
enough of itself to make the very of bis with terror and dismay au this martial of appearance was by an accidental advantage with which am surprised that neither nor have any of their heroes it is worth all tbe and wounds in the and or s into the bargain this was nothing less than a wooden leg which waa the only be had...	48
the great peter on taking ins of government displayed the of his though they occasioned not a little and among the people of the finding if constantly interrupted by the opposition and ed by the sage advice of his council the which had acquired the unreasonable habit of ng and speaking for themselves during the precedi...	48

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