Showing posts with label 1843. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1843. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

It Was Some Consolation to Us Amidst the Mortification We Endured from Our Protracted Detention in the Ice to Find That There Were Very Few Hours in Which Some Little Incidents of an Amusing Nature Did Not Occur to Divert Our Attention from the Monotony of the Daily Duties of the Ship (1843)

F.W. Beechey, A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole: Performed in His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent, under the Command of Captain David Buchan, R.n.; 1818; To Which Is Added, a Summary of All the Early Attempts to Reach the Pacific by Way of the Pole (London: Richard Bently, 1843), frontispiece.

Monday, July 1, 2013

The Fall Broke Both His Legs (1843)

Lyman Cobb. Cobb's New Juvenile Reader No. II, Or, Second Reading Book: Containing Interesting, Moral, and Instructive Reading Lessons, Composed of Easy Words of One, Two, and Three Syllables, in which All the Words in the First Reading Lesson Not Contained in Any Reading Lesson in No. 1, and All New Words in Each Subsequent Reading Lesson Throughout the Book, are Placed Before It, with the Division, Pronunciation, Accentuation, and Definition Noted, and the Part of Speech Designated : Designed for the Use of Small Children, And, in Connexion with No. I, to Accompany the Spelling Book in Schools and Families. (Harrisburg: Hickok and Cantine, 1843).