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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... shillings a week do in these hard times ? Harf . Little enough , indeed ! And is that all they allow you ? John . It is , Sir ; and we are not to have that much longer , for they say we must come into the workhouse . Mary . ( entering ...
... shillings a week do in these hard times ? Harf . Little enough , indeed ! And is that all they allow you ? John . It is , Sir ; and we are not to have that much longer , for they say we must come into the workhouse . Mary . ( entering ...
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... shilling , it is my duty to give you sixpence of it . Did you not take care of me when all the world for- sook me - and treated me as your own child when I had no other parent - and shall I ever forsake you in your old age ! Oh never ...
... shilling , it is my duty to give you sixpence of it . Did you not take care of me when all the world for- sook me - and treated me as your own child when I had no other parent - and shall I ever forsake you in your old age ! Oh never ...
Էջ 117
... shillings a hundred weight ; this is not quite one farthing for two ounces ; now you have seen some of the beautiful cut steel that looks like diamonds . Hen . Yes , I have seen buckles , and pins , and watch - chains . Fa . Then you ...
... shillings a hundred weight ; this is not quite one farthing for two ounces ; now you have seen some of the beautiful cut steel that looks like diamonds . Hen . Yes , I have seen buckles , and pins , and watch - chains . Fa . Then you ...
Էջ 58
... shillings per week , and if you add somewhat extraordinary for harvest work , this will not make it amount to three half - crowns on an average the year round . Suppose his wife and children to earn another half- crown . For this ten ...
... shillings per week , and if you add somewhat extraordinary for harvest work , this will not make it amount to three half - crowns on an average the year round . Suppose his wife and children to earn another half- crown . For this ten ...
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... shillings a year . Half - a - crown a week would pay the full rent of three such cottages , and allow somewhat over for repairs . The usual price for schooling at a dame - school in a village is two - pence a week . You might therefore ...
... shillings a year . Half - a - crown a week would pay the full rent of three such cottages , and allow somewhat over for repairs . The usual price for schooling at a dame - school in a village is two - pence a week . You might therefore ...
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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.