The Project Gutenberg e-Book of The Youth of Jefferson; Author: J. E. Cooke
by John Esten Cooke
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About this eBook
- Author
- Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886
- Title
- The Youth of Jefferson Or, a Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764
- Credits
- Produced by David Edwards, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 23283
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23283
- Release Date
- November 1, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE YOUTH OF JEFFERSON
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENT.
- 3.TO THE READER. — THE YOUTH OF JEFFERSON. — CHAPTER I . — HOW THREE PERSONS IN THIS HISTORY CAME BY THEIR NAMES. — CHAPTER II . — JACQUES SHOWS THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING LED CAPTIVE BY A CROOK. — CHAPTER III . — AN HEIRESS WHO WISHES TO BECOME A MAN. — CHAPTER IV . — A POOR YOUNG MAN, AND A RICH YOUNG GIRL. — CHAPTER V . — IN WHICH SIR ASINUS MAKES AS IGNOMINIOUS RETREAT. — CHAPTER VI . — HOW SIR ASINUS STAKED HIS GARTERS AGAINST A PISTOLE, AND LOST. — CHAPTER VII . — JACQUES BESTOWS HIS PATERNAL ADVICE UPON A SCHOOLGIRL. — CHAPTER VIII . — HOW SIR ASINUS INVENTED A NEW ORDER OF PHILOSOPHERS, THE APICIANS. — CHAPTER IX . — THE LUCK OF JACQUES. — CHAPTER X . — MOWBRAY OPENS HIS HEART TO HIS NEW FRIEND. — CHAPTER XI . — HOW HOFFLAND FOUND THAT HE HAD LEFT HIS KEY BEHIND. — CHAPTER XII . — HOW HOFFLAND CAUGHT A TARTAR IN THE PERSON OF MISS LUCY'S LOVER. — CHAPTER XIII . — HOFFLAND MAKES HIS WILL. — CHAPTER XIV . — HOSTILE CORRESPONDENCE. — CHAPTER XV . — SENTIMENTS OF A DISAPPOINTED LOVER ON THE SUBJECT OF WOMEN. — CHAPTER XVI . — ADVANCE OF THE ENEMY UPON SIR ASINUS. — CHAPTER XVII . — CORYDON GOES A-COURTING. — CHAPTER XVIII . — GOING TO ROSELAND. — CHAPTER XIX . — HOFFLAND EXERTS HIMSELF TO AMUSE THE COMPANY. — CHAPTER XX . — AT ROSELAND, IN THE EVENING. — CHAPTER XXI . — DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF SIR ASINUS. — CHAPTER XXII . — HOW HOFFLAND PREFERRED A GLOVE TO A DOZEN PISTOLES. — CHAPTER XXIII . — HOW SIR ASINUS FISHED FOR SWALLOWS, AND WHAT HE CAUGHT. — CHAPTER XXIV . — HOFFLAND IS WHISKED AWAY IN A CHARIOT. — CHAPTER XXV . — SIR ASINUS GOES TO THE BALL. — CHAPTER XXVI . — ERNEST AND PHILIPPA. — CHAPTER XXVII . — THE LAST CHANCE OF JACQUES. — CHAPTER XXVIII . — SIR ASINUS INTENDS FOR EUROPE. — CHAPTER XXIX . — THE MAY FESTIVAL. — CHAPTER XXX . — ILLUSTRATIONS. — FINIS.
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