 | 1839
...with the whole community, is an unpardonable crime. You must lend your best horse to gut quece soil, to go ten miles over hill and marsh, in the darkest...twenty after a ' gal ; ' your wheel'barrows, your shovel?, your utensils of all sorts, belong, not to yourself, but to the public, who do not think it... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pages
...with the whole community, is an unpardonable crime. You must lend your best horse to qui que ce soil, to go ten miles over hill and marsh, in the darkest...and bridles of Montacute spend most of their time in travelling from house to house a-manback ; and I have actually known a stray martingale to be traced... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...with the whole community, is an unpardonable crime. You must lend your best horse to qui que ce soil, to go ten miles over hill and marsh, in the darkest...and bridles of Montacute spend most of their time in travelling from house to house a-manback ; and I have actually known a stray martingale to be traced... | |
 | 1840 - 480 pages
...with the whole community, is an unpardonable crime. You must lend your best horse to quique ce soil to go ten miles over hill and marsh, in the darkest...for a doctor ; or your team to travel twenty after a " gall ; ' your wheel-barrows, your shovels, your utensils of all sorts, belong, not to yourself, but... | |
 | 1841 - 504 pages
...witli the whole community, is an unpardonable crime. You must lend your best horse to qui que ce toit, to go ten miles over hill and marsh, in the darkest...shovels, your utensils of all sorts, belong not to yourselves, but to the public, who do not think it necessary even to ask a loan, but take it for granted.... | |
 | John Mack Faragher - 1986 - 306 pages
...with the whole community is an unpardonable crime," Caroline Kirkland warned prospective emigrants. "Your wheel-barrows, your shovels, your utensils of...necessary even to ask a loan, but take it for granted." Outsiders, unversed in these customs, frequently misunderstood the social conventions of communal sharing.... | |
 | Lori Merish - 2000 - 410 pages
...Kirkland's depiction of the frontier institution of "involuntary loans" (68). According to the narrator, "Your wheelbarrows, your shovels, your utensils of...necessary even to ask a loan, but take it for granted" (67). Such collective claims are leveled not just at the implements of work, but extend "within doors"... | |
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'cause you've got plenty," is conclusive as to sharing with your neighbors. Whoever comes into Michigan with nothing, will be sure to better his condition; but woe to him that brings with him any thing like an appearance of abundance, whether of money... 