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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet: A Study of the Development of Culture in the South John Donald Wade No preview available - 2013 |
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Page 172 - Now there happened to reside in the county just alluded to a little fellow by the name of Ransy Sniffle: a sprout of Richmond, who, in his earlier days, had fed copiously upon red clay and blackberries. This diet had given to Ransy a complexion that a corpse would have disdained to own, and an abdominal rotundity that was quite unprepossessing. Long spells of the fever and ague, too, in Ransy's youth, had conspired with clay and blackberries to throw him quite out of the order of nature. His shoulders...
Page 177 - The Way to Wealth . . . by Dr. Franklin" (dateless), and The Cutter, in Five Lectures Upon the Art and Practice of Cutting...
Page 151 - Seriously — if this book were printed in England it would make the fortune of its author. We positively mean what we say — and are quite sure of being sustained in our opinion by all proper judges who may be so fortunate as to obtain a copy of the "Georgia Scenes...
Page 182 - And thus it goes round, until the price is made up. Two persons are then selected, who have not entered for shots, to act as judges of the match. Every shooter gets a board, and makes a cross in the centre of his target. The shot that drives the centre, or comes nearest to it, gets the hide and tallow, which is considered the first choice. The next nearest gets his choice of the hind quarters ; the third gets the other hind quarter ; the...
Page 150 - THIS book has reached us anonymously — not to say anomalously — yet it is most heartily welcome. The author, whoever he is, is a clever fellow, imbued with a spirit of the truest humor, and endowed, moreover, with an exquisitely discriminative and penetrating understanding of character in general, and of Southern character in particular.
Page 57 - Or wandering through the southern countries, teaching The ABC from Webster's spelling-book ; Gallant and godly, making love and preaching, And gaining by what they call "hook and crook," And what the moralists call overreaching, A decent living.
Page 44 - English, undefiled, and every sentence fell from his lips perfectly finished, as clear, transparent and penetrating as light, and every rule and principle as exactly defined and limited as the outline of a building against the sky.
Page 151 - Scenes," and who will be at the trouble of sifting their peculiar merits from amid the gaucheries of a Southern publication. Seldom — perhaps never in our lives — have we laughed as immoderately over any book as over the one now before us. If these scenes have produced such effect upon our cachinnatory nerves — upon us who are not "of the merry mood...
Page 45 - According to the plan pursued by Judge Gould, the Law is divided into forty-eight Titles, which embrace all its Important branches, and of which he treats in systematic detail. These Titles are the result of thirty years severe and close application. They comprehend the whole of his legal reading during that period, and continue moreover to be enlarged and improved by modern adjudications. The Lectures, which are delivered every day, and which usually occupy an hour and a half, embrace every principle...
Page 14 - All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.