Evenings at Home, Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the Instruction and Amusement of Young PersonsBaldwin, Cradock, and Joy, and R. Hunter, successor to J. Johnson, 1819 |
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Արդյունքներ 35–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... look upon Oaks with due respect . Har . Yes - it shall always be my favourite tree . Tut . Had not Pope reason , when he said , in his Windsor Forest , Let India boast her plants , nor envy we The weeping amber , or the balmy tree ...
... look upon Oaks with due respect . Har . Yes - it shall always be my favourite tree . Tut . Had not Pope reason , when he said , in his Windsor Forest , Let India boast her plants , nor envy we The weeping amber , or the balmy tree ...
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... looks so fierce , that we were afraid he would break his chain . Tut . I doubt you are a couple of cowards . However , I suppose you came near enough to observe great stacks of bark in the yard . Geo . O yes - there are several . Tut ...
... looks so fierce , that we were afraid he would break his chain . Tut . I doubt you are a couple of cowards . However , I suppose you came near enough to observe great stacks of bark in the yard . Geo . O yes - there are several . Tut ...
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... ex- cept to have been devoured , or put to death in some way or other . Though man has not so fierce a look as a cat , he is as much our enemy , and has still more cunning . THE WASP AND BEE . A FABLE . A WASP 20 FIRST EVENING .
... ex- cept to have been devoured , or put to death in some way or other . Though man has not so fierce a look as a cat , he is as much our enemy , and has still more cunning . THE WASP AND BEE . A FABLE . A WASP 20 FIRST EVENING .
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... looks strong and capable . Gubba . Why , that's true . What can you do , friend ? Alfred . I am very willing to help you in any thing you choose to set me . about . It will please me best to earn my bread before I eat . Gubba . Let me ...
... looks strong and capable . Gubba . Why , that's true . What can you do , friend ? Alfred . I am very willing to help you in any thing you choose to set me . about . It will please me best to earn my bread before I eat . Gubba . Let me ...
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... looks . ; Mrs. M. And what did you admire most of all these fine things ? Sally . I don't know - I admired them all ; and I think I liked riding in the coach better than all the rest . Why don't we keep a coach , mamma ? and why have I ...
... looks . ; Mrs. M. And what did you admire most of all these fine things ? Sally . I don't know - I admired them all ; and I think I liked riding in the coach better than all the rest . Why don't we keep a coach , mamma ? and why have I ...
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Evenings at Home, Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened: Consisting of a ..., Հատոր 1 John Aikin Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1829 |
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Էջ 152 - And what is a conqueror ? Have not you, too, gone about the earth like an evil genius, blasting the fair fruits of peace and industry ; plundering, ravaging, killing, without law, without justice, merely to gratify an insatiable lust for dominion...
Էջ 150 - I don't mind it much, for my mammy gives me a pie now and then, and that is as good. Mr. L. Would you not like a knife, to cut sticks ? B. I have one, here it is.
Էջ 31 - pray what are coals but stones ; and is not butter, grease ; and corn, seeds ; and leather, skins ; and silk, the web of a kind of caterpillar ; and may we not as well call a cat an animal of the tiger kind, as a tiger an animal of the cat kind...
Էջ 152 - And does not Fame speak of me too ? Was there ever a bolder captain of a more valiant band ? Was there ever — but I scorn to boast.
Էջ 153 - If I have burned a few hamlets, you have desolated the most flourishing kingdoms and cities of the earth. What is then the difference, but that...
Էջ 150 - Hast thou not set at defiance my authority ; violated the public peace ; and passed thy life in injuring the persons and properties of thy fellowsubjects ? ROBBER.
Էջ 149 - No, sir ; but our Tom makes footballs, to kick in the cold weather, and we set traps for birds ; and then I have a...
Էջ 73 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Էջ 161 - I have no allurements to tempt you with, like those of my gay rival. Instead of spending all your time in amusements, if you enter yourself of my train, you must rise early, and pass the long day in a variety of employments, some of them difficult, some laborious, and all requiring some exertion of body or mind.
Էջ 153 - But if I have taken like a king, I have given like a king. If I have subverted empires, I have founded greater.