Memoir of Robert SwainFreeman and Bolles, 1846 - 259 páginas |
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... leave the cabin by the inconveniences therein . They soon fitted me up with a mattress and umbrella to keep off the dew , and there I slept till we arrived in the harbor . As soon as the anchor was down , we all went on shore in the ...
... leave the cabin by the inconveniences therein . They soon fitted me up with a mattress and umbrella to keep off the dew , and there I slept till we arrived in the harbor . As soon as the anchor was down , we all went on shore in the ...
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... leave anything half finished . In what- ever he undertook , whether in making a boat , in playing chess , or in his studies , he took always a real pleasure in doing his best ; and if that did not come up to his idea , he would repeat ...
... leave anything half finished . In what- ever he undertook , whether in making a boat , in playing chess , or in his studies , he took always a real pleasure in doing his best ; and if that did not come up to his idea , he would repeat ...
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... leave it only with the greatest reluctance . But he felt that life had higher duties than mere enjoyment , and that though he might not be obliged to engage in a profes- sion , or by active business to secure a living , he must labor ...
... leave it only with the greatest reluctance . But he felt that life had higher duties than mere enjoyment , and that though he might not be obliged to engage in a profes- sion , or by active business to secure a living , he must labor ...
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... leave home , and in the fall of 1839 , entered Phillips Exeter Academy . Here he had many trials , which his secluded home - life had heretofore exempted him from , and which he was not prepared for as other boys are . But these trials ...
... leave home , and in the fall of 1839 , entered Phillips Exeter Academy . Here he had many trials , which his secluded home - life had heretofore exempted him from , and which he was not prepared for as other boys are . But these trials ...
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... leave the school at once than go lag- ging on behind . I like the school very much , and I should be very sorry to go away just when I get regularly to work . I have not got intimate with any of the boys yet ; not being able to join in ...
... leave the school at once than go lag- ging on behind . I like the school very much , and I should be very sorry to go away just when I get regularly to work . I have not got intimate with any of the boys yet ; not being able to join in ...
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