The North American Miscellany, 2. köideAlbert Palmer and Company, 1851 |
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... body of chess - men in a box , it has but to be packed up , and dis- patched in any direction at a moment's notice . He sees each individual private , looking straight between the ears of his charger , surrounded by his own and his ...
... body of chess - men in a box , it has but to be packed up , and dis- patched in any direction at a moment's notice . He sees each individual private , looking straight between the ears of his charger , surrounded by his own and his ...
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... body lying stark and stiff , actually within three paces of the small package of luxuries which , according to promise , had been left for the use of his en- tertainers of the previous evening . He was a capital swordsman , and more ...
... body lying stark and stiff , actually within three paces of the small package of luxuries which , according to promise , had been left for the use of his en- tertainers of the previous evening . He was a capital swordsman , and more ...
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... body of the hounds swept into view , accompanied by one man in scarlet and hunting - cap , whom , even at a distance , I recognized as merry Tom Crane , hunts- man to the pack of hounds which the Duke of Wellington then kept in the ...
... body of the hounds swept into view , accompanied by one man in scarlet and hunting - cap , whom , even at a distance , I recognized as merry Tom Crane , hunts- man to the pack of hounds which the Duke of Wellington then kept in the ...
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... body which has previously been electrified . But how can this sympathy be mutually manifested when the snails are placed at a with the rapidity of lightning . It is by means of this fluid that is excited and com- municated the ...
... body which has previously been electrified . But how can this sympathy be mutually manifested when the snails are placed at a with the rapidity of lightning . It is by means of this fluid that is excited and com- municated the ...
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... body until the appearance of the characteristic signs of death as described by Dr. Descamps . Among the Greeks and Romans , the body was kept from three to six days after death , during which loud lamentations were uttered ; the ...
... body until the appearance of the characteristic signs of death as described by Dr. Descamps . Among the Greeks and Romans , the body was kept from three to six days after death , during which loud lamentations were uttered ; the ...
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Page 5 - A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent ; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage ; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r lady, inclining to threescore ; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff : if that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me ; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If, then, the...
Page 396 - No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Page 254 - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.
Page 3 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Page 1 - ... were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff", and separated behind ; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule.
Page 518 - I have read of a fair young German gentleman, who, living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his friends' desire, by giving way that after a few days' burial they might send a painter to his vault, and, if they saw cause for it, draw the image of his death unto the life. They did so. and found his face half eaten, and his midriff1 and backbone full of serpents ; and so he stands pictured among his armed ancestors.
Page 1 - Miss Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible.
Page 130 - There's not a flower on all the hills: the frost is on the pane: I only wish to live till the snowdrops come again: I wish the snow would melt and the sun come out on high: I long to see a flower so before the day I die.
Page 2 - ... first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and when I rode a little slower, she passed me and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice, and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges, so I was sure she could not miss it, and I contrived that she should soon come up with me. When she did, I observed her to be in tears.
Page 96 - When, packed in one reeking chamber, Man, maid, mother, and little ones lay; While the rain pattered in on the rotting bride-bed, And the walls let in the day. 'When we lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cold clay floor, Till you parted us all for three months, squire, At the dreary workhouse door.