I am the chief person of the municipality, and exhibit, moreover, an admirable pattern to my brother officers, by the cool, steady, upright, downright, and impartial discharge of my business, and the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or... Twice-told Tales - Page 165by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1878Full view - About this book
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1837 - 648 pages
...discharge of my business, and the constancy with which 1 stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain ; for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest corner, just above the market, stretching out my artuE, to rich and poor alike ; and at night, I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I am,... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1837 - 682 pages
...business, and the constancy with which 1 stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain j for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest corner, just above the market, stretching out my amis, to rich and poor alike ; and at night, I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I am,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, .nobody seeks me in vain ; for, ail day long, I am seen at the busiest corner, just above...stretching out my arms, to rich and poor alike ; and at rJght, I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I am, and keep people out of the gutters.... | |
| George Merriam - Reader (Elementary) - 1841 - 308 pages
...discharge of my business, and the con stancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain ; for all day long I am seen at the busiest...arms to rich and poor alike; and at night I hold a Ianthorn over my head, both to show where I am, and keep, people out of the gutters. 4. At this sultry... | |
| John D. Post - Readers - 1842 - 314 pages
...discharge of my business,? and the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain ; for all day long I am seen at the busiest...market, stretching out my arms, to rich and poor alike ;d and at night I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I am, and keep people out of the... | |
| Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 272 pages
...been with your eapacity for Shakspeare, or you are a truant and an idler. — John Wilson. [Rom. 2.] At night, I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I um, and to keep people out of the gutters. — Hawthorne. He was neither sustained in his independent... | |
| Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...discharge of my business, and the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain; for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest coiner, just above the market, stretching out my arms to rich and poor alike ; and, at night, I hold... | |
| Samuel Dunn - 1849 - 1194 pages
...discharge of my business, and the constancy with which I attend to my post. Summer, or winter, nobody seeks me in vain ; for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest...lantern over my head, both to show where I am, and to keep people out of the gutters. At the sultry noon-tide I am cup-bearer to the parched populace,... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1849 - 348 pages
...discharge of my business, and the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain; for all day long I am seen at the busiest rOHHT, just above the market, stretching out^niy arms to rich and poor alike ; and at night I hold... | |
| William Horsell - Hydrotherapy - 1850 - 266 pages
...discharge of my duties, and the constancy with which I stand at my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain ; for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest corner, just above the market, stretching out my arm to rich and poor alike ; and at night I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I am and... | |
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