Chambers's Edinburgh JournalWilliam Orr, 1844 |
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... half children to each couple , and a very fair and reasonable burden this would make , if it were a uniform case , barring , indeed , that the half - child , even though not quite left without a single leg to stand upon , might be ...
... half children to each couple , and a very fair and reasonable burden this would make , if it were a uniform case , barring , indeed , that the half - child , even though not quite left without a single leg to stand upon , might be ...
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... half so comfortably lodged . We are , however , not to moralise , but to recount facts . Of the palace in which the Dukes of Condé lived , the revolution spared but little . Only a fragment exists ; but the beautifully laid - out ...
... half so comfortably lodged . We are , however , not to moralise , but to recount facts . Of the palace in which the Dukes of Condé lived , the revolution spared but little . Only a fragment exists ; but the beautifully laid - out ...
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... half the mass had tasted nothing . I sive , and in the middle is a large round stone table , of had been wiser than the generality , and fortunately one solitary slab , quite Egyptian in size , and quite possessed a few sandwiches and a ...
... half the mass had tasted nothing . I sive , and in the middle is a large round stone table , of had been wiser than the generality , and fortunately one solitary slab , quite Egyptian in size , and quite possessed a few sandwiches and a ...
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... half - castle half - palace , erected principally in the reign of that palace - building hero , François Premier , from the designs of Philabert de l'Orme . We alight , walk to the arched portal , and are admitted by the concierge to ...
... half - castle half - palace , erected principally in the reign of that palace - building hero , François Premier , from the designs of Philabert de l'Orme . We alight , walk to the arched portal , and are admitted by the concierge to ...
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... half miles an hour , the surface - level of the water is still one hun- dred and nineteen feet above the level of mean tide . From this it is conducted ( a distance of two miles ) to the distributing reservoir , where the surface ...
... half miles an hour , the surface - level of the water is still one hun- dred and nineteen feet above the level of mean tide . From this it is conducted ( a distance of two miles ) to the distributing reservoir , where the surface ...
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Էջ 222 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Էջ 47 - Work ! work ! work ! from weary chime to chime ; work ! work ! work ! as prisoners work for crime. Band, and gusset, and seam ; seam, and gusset, and band ; till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, as well as the weary hand.
Էջ 47 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Էջ 222 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Էջ 47 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Էջ 217 - Remains," it is remarked, that "there is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books, no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other.
Էջ 254 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Էջ 204 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Էջ 82 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Էջ 47 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!