Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and instruction. [entitled] Sharpe's London journal. [entitled] Sharpe's London magazine, conducted by mrs. S.C. Hall, 13–14. köideAnna Maria Hall |
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... hour before starting , to be shown into a nice warm room , where the quarter of an hour passes quicker than five minutes in a dirty coach - office or a coffee - room , where the waiters try to look you into a glass of brandy - and ...
... hour before starting , to be shown into a nice warm room , where the quarter of an hour passes quicker than five minutes in a dirty coach - office or a coffee - room , where the waiters try to look you into a glass of brandy - and ...
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... hour . The construction of this machine is as beautiful as it is complete , and , notwithstanding its rapidity of motion , it cannot be heard at work in an adjoining room . That nothing may be wanting to secure expedition , it may be ...
... hour . The construction of this machine is as beautiful as it is complete , and , notwithstanding its rapidity of motion , it cannot be heard at work in an adjoining room . That nothing may be wanting to secure expedition , it may be ...
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... hour . Encouraged by the very prosperous results of this first attempt , Mr. Miller proceeded to conduct experiments on a larger scale , and accordingly pur- chased a gabert at the Forth and Clyde Canal , for which Mr. Symington ...
... hour . Encouraged by the very prosperous results of this first attempt , Mr. Miller proceeded to conduct experiments on a larger scale , and accordingly pur- chased a gabert at the Forth and Clyde Canal , for which Mr. Symington ...
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... hour , or one mile within the eighth of an hour . " This boat was built in 1787 , and subsequently accomplished eighty miles in one day . Govenor Miffling , attended by the council of Pennsylvania , came in procession , and presented to ...
... hour , or one mile within the eighth of an hour . " This boat was built in 1787 , and subsequently accomplished eighty miles in one day . Govenor Miffling , attended by the council of Pennsylvania , came in procession , and presented to ...
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... hour against wind and tide . | building - yard while my boat was in progress , I have A boat constructed in 1804 , by John Cox Stevens , propelled by a screw , on the principle of the common smoke - jack , travelled with equal velocity ...
... hour against wind and tide . | building - yard while my boat was in progress , I have A boat constructed in 1804 , by John Cox Stevens , propelled by a screw , on the principle of the common smoke - jack , travelled with equal velocity ...
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Page 135 - I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Page 134 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line and in its proper column I might mark by a little black spot every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue upon that day.
Page 296 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him : For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Page 354 - ... the dew of Heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and out-worn faces.
Page 353 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Page 75 - Then shall the earth yield her increase ; And GOD, even our own GOD, shall bless us. GOD shall bless us ; And all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
Page 353 - ... and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air, about his ministries here below. So is the prayer of a good man...
Page 33 - ... it consisteth in one knows not what and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking, out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder and breeding some delight thereto.
Page 11 - The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Page 354 - But as, when the sun approaches towards the gates of the morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills...