The Budget: Or, Humble Attempts at Immortality

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Glazier, Masters & Company, 1830 - 199 ページ
 

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2 ページ - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
75 ページ - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
2 ページ - An Act supplementary to an act, entitled An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the limes therein mentioned ; and for extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.
2 ページ - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned " j and also to an act, entitled " An act supplementary to an act, entitled, ' An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,'...
2 ページ - Hunt, of the said District, have deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: , "Sketches of American Character, by MRS.
68 ページ - ... mystery rested upon the doings of this dreaded club. Its existence was only known by the hieroglyphic notice on the college doorposts, — appearing, none knew how, and vanishing, none knew when, and by the consequences of every meeting. Noises. — the sound of shouts and yells, — the heavy tramping of feet, and ever and anon, the outbreaking of some discordant chorus, often roused the peaceful student from his midnight slumbers ; and if perchance some one, more bold than the rest, should...
69 ページ - ... the peaceful student from his midnight slumbers ; and if perchance some one, more bold than the rest, should determine to have a peep at the noisy gang who were serenading him so sweetly, the opening of his door would be the signal for silence, and his curiosity would be unsatisfied, unless it was satisfaction to see a multitude of spectre-like figures in the likeness of nothing in Heaven above, nor in the earth beneath, gliding away with noiseless footsteps into the impenetrable darkness. Darkness...
70 ページ - ... heavy feet falling upon the floor. Those to be initiated were ushered into a room from whence issued heavy clouds of tobacco smoke, and which was only lighted up by the dim and flickering effulgence of a faint blue flame which issued, as it were, from the centre of the floor. Around that dim light set a circle of fiendish looking creatures, on every face of whom was a mask, and in every mouth a cigar. Every one rose at the entrance of the members elect, and one more hideous than the rest, who...
70 ページ - ... the members elect, and one more hideous than the rest, who bore the high and mighty office of Ruler in that synagogue of devils, stepped forth, and in a voice which seemed rising from the very recess of his beautiful body, addressed them thus, — We the ancient and honorable Dominion, which existed long before the commencement of time, and who, in the profundity of our kindness, have come to dwell in this highly honored institution, understand that you, poor miserable worms, are desirous also...
69 ページ - Dominion". For sometime previous, no disturbances had arisen from their meetings, and the irritated students began to hope that the troublesome society had breathed its last, and that at length they might be permitted to lie down without the fear of a midnight disturbance before their eyes. But they were doomed to hear the sonorous voices of the seniors of '28 mingling in their usual melodious howl. At midnight, when every light was extinguished, and the sound of the snorers was heard echoing through...

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