Prank: Or, The Philosophy of Tricks and Mischief |
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Popular passages
Page 145 - And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle and reap : for the time is come for thee to reap ; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth ; and the earth was reaped.
Page 111 - ... but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 147 - Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Page 111 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 6 - Congress, in the year 1850, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE THE development of the moral sentiments in the human heart, in early life, — and every thing in fact which relates to the formation of character, — is...
Page 31 - The boys who stood on the bank looking at the pickerel that I am now describing, immediately began to lay plans for catching him. They found, on inquiring, and feeling in all their pockets, that no one of the party had a fishing-line, and as they all thought there would be no time to go and get one, they attempted to make one out of a piece of twine and a pin.
Page 35 - Or, you may drag your bait rapidly through the water, by a succession of jerks and twitches, in order to imitate the movement of a fish swimming along. The pickerel will then dart at it, seize it with great fury, and attempt to swim away with it as fast as he can go. Then all you have to do is to pull the line in, and you find, perhaps, a pick . erel eight inches or a foot long on the end of it.
Page 34 - He knew it was nothing but a rag," said a third, "just as quick as he touched it." During all this time I had been seated quietly on the bank, looking on. I watched all the proceedings with considerable interest, though I took no active part in them. When it was ascertained that the pickerel was really gone, I rose, and we all then went on together, continuing our walk on the bank of the stream.
Page 31 - They bent the pin into the form of a hook, and fastened it on to the end of the twine. They found a small stone, shaped like a long and slender bean, which they tied on for a sinker ; and for bait they took a strip of white rag. They thought that this would look more like a fish than any thing else they could obtain.