But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?
White lies are ushers to black ones. - Frederick Marryat
White lies are ushers to black ones.
- Frederick Marryat
But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or … - Frederick Marryat
But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or …
All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white li… - Frederick Marryat
All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white li…
Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the g… - Frederick Marryat
Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the g…
There's no getting blood out of a turnip. - Frederick Marryat
There's no getting blood out of a turnip.
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. - Frederick Marryat
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe. - Frederick Marryat
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.
The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil… - Frederick Marryat
The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil…
If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation… - Frederick Marryat
If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation…
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