Cooper's Novels
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ISBN13: 9780217198691
Paperback|9780217198691
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CHAINBEAEEE. CHAPTER I. The steady brain, the sinewy limb, To leap, to climb, to dive, to swim: The iron frame, inured to bear Each dire inclemency of air; Nor less confirmed to undergo Fatigue's faint chill, and famine's throe. ROKEBV. My father was Cornelius Littlepage, of Satanstoe, in the county of West Chester, and State of New York; and my mother was Annekc Mordaunt, of LiJacsbush, a place long known by that name, which still stands near Kingsbridge, but on the island of Manhattan, and consequently in one of the wards of New York, though quite eleven miles from town. I shall suppose that my readers know the difference between the Island of Manhattan, and Manhattan Island; though I have found soi-disant Manhattanese, of mature years, but of alien birth, who had to be taught it. Lilacs- bush. I repeat therefore, was on the Island of Manhattan, eleven miles from town, though in the city of New York, and not on Manhattan Island. Of my progenitors further back, I do not conceive it necessary to say much. They were partly of English, and partly of Low Dutch extraction; as is apt to be the case with those who come of New York families of any standing in the colony. I retain tolerably distinct impressions of both of my grandfathers, and of one of my grandmothers; my mother's mother having died long before my own parents were married. Of my maternal grandfatherI know very little, however, he having died while I was quite young, and before I had seen much of him. He paid the great debt of nature in England, whither he had gone on a visit to u relative, a Sir Something Bulstrode, who had been in the colonies himself, and who was a great favourite with Herman Mordaunt, as my mother's parent was universally called in New York. My father often said, it was per...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217198691 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217198694 |
| Weight | 1.01 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $21.27 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 310 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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