Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 92Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1916 - American literature |
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Page 65
... Braile alone had the courage to disable their judgment , which he liked to say was no more infallible than so much Scripture ; but the hardy infidel , who knew so much law and was inexpugnable in his office , owned that he could not ...
... Braile alone had the courage to disable their judgment , which he liked to say was no more infallible than so much Scripture ; but the hardy infidel , who knew so much law and was inexpugnable in his office , owned that he could not ...
Page 66
... Braile don't do him no good . You b'lieve Washington and Jefferson was friends . with Tom Paine ? The squire says they was , but I misdoubt it myself ; I always hearn them two was good perfessun ' Christians . Kind o ' lonesome along ...
... Braile don't do him no good . You b'lieve Washington and Jefferson was friends . with Tom Paine ? The squire says they was , but I misdoubt it myself ; I always hearn them two was good perfessun ' Christians . Kind o ' lonesome along ...
Page 68
... Braile sat smoking most of the hot forenoon away on the porch of his cabin there came to him rumor of the swift spread of the superstition run- ning from mind to mind in the neighbor- hood , and catching like fire in dry grass . The ...
... Braile sat smoking most of the hot forenoon away on the porch of his cabin there came to him rumor of the swift spread of the superstition run- ning from mind to mind in the neighbor- hood , and catching like fire in dry grass . The ...
Page 70
... Braile said with an implication that he had been at the Temple all the other nights , which made Reverdy laugh with guilty joy . " One o ' the Hounds - no , it was Jim Redfield hisself - stopped on the way out , and he says : ' What ' s ...
... Braile said with an implication that he had been at the Temple all the other nights , which made Reverdy laugh with guilty joy . " One o ' the Hounds - no , it was Jim Redfield hisself - stopped on the way out , and he says : ' What ' s ...
Page 71
... Braile only said : " Go on ! Go on ! " “ Well , sir , so they kep ' on all that day and all the next night , prayun ' , and sing- un ' , and readun ' the Bible . The next mornun ' when they started , Brother En- raghty felt kind o ...
... Braile only said : " Go on ! Go on ! " “ Well , sir , so they kep ' on all that day and all the next night , prayun ' , and sing- un ' , and readun ' the Bible . The next mornun ' when they started , Brother En- raghty felt kind o ...
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