| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...hove nothing but your character, Teague, in a new coun294 HUGH HENRY BRACKENIUDGE. try to depend npon. Let it never be said, that you quitted an honest livelihood, the taking care of my horse, to follow the new-fangled whims of the times, and be a statesman. Teague was moved chiefly with the last part of... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pages
...Tenguc, in a new coun294 HUGH HENRY BRACKENRIDGE. try to depend upon. Let it never be said, that yon quitted an honest livelihood, the taking care of my horse, to follow the new-fangled whims of the times, and be a statesman. Teague was moved chiefly with the last pnrt of... | |
| Cathy N. Davidson Professor of English Duke University - American fiction - 1987 - 338 pages
...should come to this; bringing on them a worse stain than stealing sheep; to which they are addicted. You have nothing but your character, Teague, in a...of my horse, to follow the new fangled whims of the time, and to be a statesman (p. 17). It works. The servant will keep his place, so the master can also... | |
| Royall Tyler, Cynthia A. Kierner - Drama - 2007 - 158 pages
...yet you would undertake rashly, without advice, to enter on the office; nay, contrary to advice . . . You have nothing but your character, Teague, in a...new fangled whims of the times, and be a statesman. Teague was moved chiefly with the last part of the address, and consented to relinquish his pretensions.... | |
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