I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best... A Reader's History of American Literature - Página 53por Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 327 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 páginas
...that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to...sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuff 'd out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging. I was fatigued... | |
| george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 páginas
...that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to...sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuff'd out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging. I was fatigued... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 páginas
...unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best cloaths being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuff d out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging. I was fatigued... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 páginas
...unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best cloaths being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey ; my pockets were stuff 'd out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging. I was fatigued... | |
| Montgomery Belgion - 1950 - 312 páginas
...he describes his arrival in Philadelphia has often been quoted. It will always bear quoting again. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuffed...nor where to look for lodging. I was fatigued with travelling, rowing, and want of rest, I was very hungry; and my whole stock of cash consisted of a... | |
| Mary Ann Radzinowicz - 1984 - 300 páginas
...unlikely Beginnings with the Figure I have since made there. I was in my Working Dress, my best Cloaths being to come round by Sea. I was dirty from my Journey; my Pockets were stuffd out with Shirts and Stockings; I knew no Soul, nor where to look for Lodging. I was fatigu'd... | |
| James L. Machor - 1987 - 292 páginas
...now one of the most famous passages in American writing: I was in my Working Dress, my best Cloaths being to come round by Sea. I was dirty from my Journey; my Pockets were stuff d out with Shirts and Stockings; I knew no Soul nor where to look for Lodging. What is significant... | |
| Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 páginas
...out of the boat that had brought him from New Jersey and found himself on the Market Street wharf: I was in my working Dress, my best Clothes being to...Sea. I was dirty from my Journey; my Pockets were stufFd out with Shirts and Stockings; I knew no Soul, nor where to look for Lodging. I was fatigu'd... | |
| Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1146 páginas
...unlikely Beginning with the Figure I have since made there. I was in my working Dress, my best Cloaths being to come round by Sea. I was dirty from my Journey; my Pockets were stuff'd out with Shirts &C Stockings; I knew no Soul, nor where to look for Lodging. I was fatigu'd... | |
| Susan Clair Imbarrato - 1998 - 200 páginas
...later recasting of himself as a semimythical figure suggest Franklin's keen sense of self-construction: I was in my working Dress, my best Clothes being to...Sea. I was dirty from my Journey; my Pockets were stuff 'd out with Shirts and Stockings; I knew no Soul, nor where to look for Lodging. I was fatigu'd... | |
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