 The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole family, old and young, master and servant, black and white — nay, even the very cat and dog — enjoyed a community of privilege and had each a right to a corner.  The practical school grammar - Page 67by James Currie (A.M.) - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 490 pages
...to those happy days of primeval simplicity, which float before our imaginations like golden visions. The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude,...dog, enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner. Here the old burgher would sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe, looking in... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...adherents decliningdaily, he consented to a partition of the kingdom." — North American Review. 2. " The fire-places were of a truly patriarchal magnitude,...a prescriptive right to a corner." — "W. IRVING. 3. "On, then, all Frenchmen that have hearts in their bodies !" — CARLISLE. 4. " The Bastile is still... | |
 | J. C. Gilleland - 1851 - 478 pages
...to those happy days of primeval simplicity, which float before our imaginations like golden visions. The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude,...dog, enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner. Here the old burgher would sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe, looking in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 476 pages
...to those happy days of primeval simplicity, which float before our imaginations like golden visions. The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude,...dog, enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner. Here the old burgher would sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe, looking in... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...adherents declining daily, he consented to a partition of the kingdom." — North American Review. 2. " The fire-places were of a truly patriarchal magnitude,...a prescriptive right to a corner." — W. IRVING. 3. " On, then, all Frenchmen that have hearts in their bodies !" — CARLISLE. 4. " The Bastile is... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 pages
...and the number of his adherents declining daily, he consented to a partition of the kingdom." 2. " The fire-places were of a truly patriarchal magnitude,...privilege, and had each a prescriptive right to a corner." 8. " On, then, all Frenchmen that have hearts in their bodies !" 4. " The Bastile is still to take"... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...adherents declining daily, he consented to a partition of the kingdom." — North American Review. 2. "The fire-places were of a truly patriarchal magnitude,...a prescriptive right to a corner." — W. IRVING. 3. "On, then, all Frenchmen that have hearts in their bodies!" — CARLISLE. 4. "The Bastile is still... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 450 pages
...to those happy days of primeval simplicity, which float before our imaginations like golden visions. The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude,...dog, enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner. Here the old burgher wquld sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe, looking in... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...which float before our imaginations like golden visions. The fire-places were of truly patriarchal 3 magnitude, where the whole family, old and young, master and servant, black and white, nay, even the vSry cat and dog, enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner. 8. liere the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 478 pages
...to those happy days of primeval simplicity, which float before our imaginations like golden visions. The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude,...where the whole family, old and young, master and sen-ant, black and white, nay, even the very cat and dog, enjoyed a community of privilege, and had... | |
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