"Ean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... closely Dumpling and Stage Tyrants can be tied together; the reader can compare for himself that part of Namby Pamby containing "So the Nurses get by Heart / Namby Pamby's Little Rhymes," with the passage from the Key: "It was here the D[ean] . . . got together all his Namby Pamby . . . from the old ...
— A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) • Anonymous
... itself to the level of the duties and responsibilities enjoined by it. "You have muscle power and brain power," she said; "you must utilize them, or be content to remain forever the inferior race. Get land, every one that can, and as fast as you ean. A landless people must be dependent upon the landed people. A few acres to till for food and a roof, however bumble, over your head, are the castle of your independence, and when you have it you are fortified to act and vote independently whenever your interests ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still |
