Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 67
scholar fell sick, and formany days was unable to attend his class. Onrecovering, he returned to his study and found the parrot from its perch on the back of hischair holding forth to a much augmented class,which stood lost in admiration. My friends, said the scholar, to seem toknow a thing,… … ENGRAVED BY HALL, FROM THE PICTURE PAINTED BY STUART NEWTON, 1820.FROM THE ARTISTS EDITION OF THE SKETCH BOOK. WASHINGTON IRVING. By Brander Matthews. The first American man of letters, BenjaminFranklin, was a man of letters only incidentally,and, as it were, accidentally; for he was aprinter by…
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