The Youth of Jefferson / Or, a Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764
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John Esten Cooke was an American novelist, writer and poet. He was the brother of poet Philip Pendleton Cooke. During the American Civil War, Cooke served as a staff officer for Maj. Gen. J.E.B.Greatest Works of John Esten Cooke________________________________________A Life of Gen. Robert E. LeeMohun, or, The Last Days of Lee and his PaladinsThe Last of the ForestersThe Youth of Jefferson
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- THE YOUTH OF JEFFERSON
- TABLE OF CONTENT.
- 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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