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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... manner as the parents thought pro- per . Other children were admitted to these readings ; and as the Budget of Beechgrove Hall became somewhat ce- lebrated in the neighbourhood , its pro- prietors were at length urged to lay it open to ...
... manner as the parents thought pro- per . Other children were admitted to these readings ; and as the Budget of Beechgrove Hall became somewhat ce- lebrated in the neighbourhood , its pro- prietors were at length urged to lay it open to ...
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... manner it grows . Its great arms run out almost horizontally from its trunk , giving the whole tree a sort of round form , and making it spread far on every side . Its branches are also subject to be crooked or kneed . By these marks ...
... manner it grows . Its great arms run out almost horizontally from its trunk , giving the whole tree a sort of round form , and making it spread far on every side . Its branches are also subject to be crooked or kneed . By these marks ...
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... manners and ways of living ; and if it will be any entertainment to you , I will tell you some curious particulars of what I ob- served . - Pray do , Papa , cried Jack and all his brothers and sisters : so they drew close round him ...
... manners and ways of living ; and if it will be any entertainment to you , I will tell you some curious particulars of what I ob- served . - Pray do , Papa , cried Jack and all his brothers and sisters : so they drew close round him ...
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... manners so complete , Should do an humble maid the honour To waste his precious time upon her . poor forsaken she , you know , A Can do no credit to a beau ; And worse would be the case If meeting one whose faith was plighted , He ...
... manners so complete , Should do an humble maid the honour To waste his precious time upon her . poor forsaken she , you know , A Can do no credit to a beau ; And worse would be the case If meeting one whose faith was plighted , He ...
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... manner , and by these means had just finished their own nest ; when all the other Rooks in a rage fell upon them at once , pulled their nest in pieces , beat them soundly , and drove them from their society . Fr. That was very right - I ...
... manner , and by these means had just finished their own nest ; when all the other Rooks in a rage fell upon them at once , pulled their nest in pieces , beat them soundly , and drove them from their society . Fr. That was very right - 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.