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 | Mark Twain - Essays - 1923 - 454 pages
...sober up and sit down and think it over first? Would it not be prudent to get our Civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in...Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages... | |
 | Forrest G. Robinson - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 288 pages
...sober up and sit down and think it over first? Would it not be prudent to get our Civilization-tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in...Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment ( patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages... | |
 | Amy Waters Yarsinske - History - 1999 - 134 pages
...sober up and sit down and think it over first? Would it not be prudent to get our Civilization-tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in...Trade-Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment." — From To the Person Sitting in Darkness, 1904-1905* Mark Twain (1835-1910) This hand-colored postcard... | |
 | John Carlos Rowe - American literature - 2000 - 398 pages
...sober up and sit down and think it over first? Would it not be prudent to get our Civilization-tools together. and see how much stock is left on hand in...Beads and Theology. and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books. and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment ipatent adjustable ones. good to fire villages... | |
 | Jeffrey W. Cody - Architecture - 2003 - 228 pages
...sober up and sit down and think it over first? Would it not be prudent to get our Civilization-tools together and see how much stock is left on hand in...adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasionl, and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide... | |
 | William E. Phipps - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 406 pages
...civilization on the reluctant Chinese, MT advised that we Westerners should "get our Civilizationtools together and see how much stock is left on hand in...Beads and Theology, and Maxim guns and Hymn Books." He noticed that the Chinese were becoming suspicious because containers they were receiving with labels... | |
 | Karl E. Meyer - History - 2008 - 294 pages
...on distant strangers who sit in darkness? Or would it not be better "to get our Civilization-tools together and see how much stock is left on hand in...(patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, on occasion)." He reserved his deadliest darts for the British colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain,... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 2009 - 404 pages
...sober up and sit down and think it over first? Would it not be prudent to get our Civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in...Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages... | |
 | Peter Schmidt - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 272 pages
...shall we give those poor things a rest? . . . Would it not be prudent to get our Civilization-tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in...Trade-Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent-adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive... | |
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