The North American Miscellany, 2. köideAlbert Palmer and Company, 1851 |
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... less bustle than at a Quakers ' meeting , and less business going on than in a Govern- ment office - the well - dressed man threads the mazes of the piles , and desks , and cup- boards , and counters , with a slow step , to greet us ...
... less bustle than at a Quakers ' meeting , and less business going on than in a Govern- ment office - the well - dressed man threads the mazes of the piles , and desks , and cup- boards , and counters , with a slow step , to greet us ...
Page 18
... less money , you masters they already serve , they prefer think , would be spent in drink ? " aries , not less than eighty - five thousand 66 dragging on a miserable existence in their present abodes . Spitalfields was the Ne- cropolis ...
... less money , you masters they already serve , they prefer think , would be spent in drink ? " aries , not less than eighty - five thousand 66 dragging on a miserable existence in their present abodes . Spitalfields was the Ne- cropolis ...
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... less obedient to the mandates of the will , than is this combination of wood and iron , chains and cylinders , to the will and direction of a very greasy , smutty man , standing upon a semi - circular platform about the upright shaft ...
... less obedient to the mandates of the will , than is this combination of wood and iron , chains and cylinders , to the will and direction of a very greasy , smutty man , standing upon a semi - circular platform about the upright shaft ...
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... less the good - heart . You will ever find him gentlemanly , and , concerning the machine of which he is the presiding genius , ready to answer the frequent inqui- ries of visitors as to its capabilities , powers , construction , or ...
... less the good - heart . You will ever find him gentlemanly , and , concerning the machine of which he is the presiding genius , ready to answer the frequent inqui- ries of visitors as to its capabilities , powers , construction , or ...
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... less determined to relieve our mind by their time and attention . In justice to our youthful friend , we cannot refrain from add- ing that he replied to this missile by a very polite note , begging pardon for having made so great a ...
... less determined to relieve our mind by their time and attention . In justice to our youthful friend , we cannot refrain from add- ing that he replied to this missile by a very polite note , begging pardon for having made so great a ...
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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.