The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, 7. köide1827 |
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... once , without more delay , for I felt braced up to it , and thought that I could plunge from the top of Waterloo - bridge into the river , as boldly as ever I plunged into a cold bath ; but happening to pass Covent - garden Theatre ...
... once , without more delay , for I felt braced up to it , and thought that I could plunge from the top of Waterloo - bridge into the river , as boldly as ever I plunged into a cold bath ; but happening to pass Covent - garden Theatre ...
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... once have comprehended him ; but where logic generally ends , metaphysics begins ; there we leave him . Having this far premised the general objections ad- vanced against phrenology , we beg leave , gentlemen , with your indulgence , to ...
... once have comprehended him ; but where logic generally ends , metaphysics begins ; there we leave him . Having this far premised the general objections ad- vanced against phrenology , we beg leave , gentlemen , with your indulgence , to ...
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... once . When we consider , for a moment , the vast difference Handsome sofas , and chairs of a very fashionable pattern , between the vessel we have now described , and the little while the most useful , are not the least ornamental part ...
... once . When we consider , for a moment , the vast difference Handsome sofas , and chairs of a very fashionable pattern , between the vessel we have now described , and the little while the most useful , are not the least ornamental part ...
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... once , all within dent petrified works which had been some ages in forming . twenty or thirty yards of each other ; having run about The little cascades which fell in various places from the two miles under ground , making its ...
... once , all within dent petrified works which had been some ages in forming . twenty or thirty yards of each other ; having run about The little cascades which fell in various places from the two miles under ground , making its ...
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... once your spicy forests smiled , Where once the eagles of the night The wanderings of the storm beguiled ! A town , whose own expanding arms Around thy bosom shall be curl'd ; A town , with such commercial charms , The great emporium of ...
... once your spicy forests smiled , Where once the eagles of the night The wanderings of the storm beguiled ! A town , whose own expanding arms Around thy bosom shall be curl'd ; A town , with such commercial charms , The great emporium of ...
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AMUSEMENT animal magnetism answer appeared arrived beautiful body brain called Captain castle checkmate chess church colour cork corn laws correspondent craniology crater dark death earth EDITOR Fair favour feel feet gentleman give hand head heard heart honour hour Jamie Watt Janissaries Kaleidoscope King labour lady lava Leonora letter light Liverpool look Lord Manchester manner Master means ment miles mind morning mountains move musical notation nature never night nosegay o'er object observed opinion passed Pawn Père la Chaise person phrenology piece present racter rain readers Reginald remarks respect rhombus Rodolph round seemed seen side soul square STAUFFACHER tell thee thing thou thought tion travelling vessel Voltaire whilst whole William Mead William Penn wind
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Page 168 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 165 - A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Page 168 - Messiah's name ! 4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole : Till o'er our ransom'd nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 120 - And thou, mine honoured love and true, Bear on, bear nobly on ! We have the blessed heaven in view, Whose rest shall soon be won.
Page 17 - Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart: As...
Page 73 - I have broken, you do at once deny me an acknowledged Right, and evidence to the whole World your Resolution to sacrifice the Privileges of Englishmen to your sinister and Arbitrary Designs.
Page 73 - Time was when I had freedom to use a carnal weapon, and then I thought I feared no man; but now I fear the living God, and dare not make use thereof, nor hurt any man; nor do I know I demeaned myself as a tumultuous person.
Page 27 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 186 - But when he called on Nelly Gray, She made him quite a scoff; And when she saw his wooden legs, Began to take them off! "O Nelly Gray! O Nelly Gray! Is this your love so warm ? The love that loves a scarlet coat, Should be more uniform!
Page 51 - During his march to conquer the world. Alexander the Macedonian, came to a people in Africa, who dwelt in a remote and secluded corner in peaceful huts, and knew neither war nor conqueror. They led him to the hut of their Chief, who received him hospitably and placed before him golden dates, golden figs, and bread of gold. Do you eat gold in this country ? said Alexander. I take it for granted (replied the Chief) that thou wert able to find eatable food in thine own country.