The North American Miscellany, 2. köideAlbert Palmer and Company, 1851 |
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... play . Accordingly , I turned my horse's head in the direction of the line of vapor , and trotted briskly forward towards some distant inclosures , which I thought must surely lead me to what I now felt confident was a farm - house ...
... play . Accordingly , I turned my horse's head in the direction of the line of vapor , and trotted briskly forward towards some distant inclosures , which I thought must surely lead me to what I now felt confident was a farm - house ...
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... plays around country looms , ex- in some foreign town , and have no trace of hilarates in itself , and is found to be a sub- London in them - except its soot , which is stitute for gin . " indeed a large exception . It is as if the " I ...
... plays around country looms , ex- in some foreign town , and have no trace of hilarates in itself , and is found to be a sub- London in them - except its soot , which is stitute for gin . " indeed a large exception . It is as if the " I ...
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... play . Indeed , du- ring that year the British manufacturer was in a position to defy competition . " yard of our manufacture , we had plenty of leisure to examine the different foreign goods minutely . So rich a variety had never ...
... play . Indeed , du- ring that year the British manufacturer was in a position to defy competition . " yard of our manufacture , we had plenty of leisure to examine the different foreign goods minutely . So rich a variety had never ...
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... player , and straightway these talismanic signs are con- veyed , with telegraphic precision , to parts and portions most distant , and the com- mands are instantly followed , or better , ac- companied , by the desired movement . How ...
... player , and straightway these talismanic signs are con- veyed , with telegraphic precision , to parts and portions most distant , and the com- mands are instantly followed , or better , ac- companied , by the desired movement . How ...
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... played their parts boldly and openly in the battle of life . But it is not such who exclusively afford the most interesting or profitable subject - matter to the writer ; there is much to be gleaned from the history of many whose world ...
... played their parts boldly and openly in the battle of life . But it is not such who exclusively afford the most interesting or profitable subject - matter to the writer ; there is much to be gleaned from the history of many whose world ...
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Page 496 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 394 - 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 3 - He now set up a private academy, for which purpose he hired a large house, well situated near his native city. In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736, there is the following advertisement : " At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Page 496 - In following him, I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
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Page 231 - The Cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Page 250 - I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.