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Manchester , unfortunately , holds a high , nearly the highest place , in the
melancholy returns of national mortality which are every year issued with their
boding columns of figures from Somerset House . The average number of yearly
deaths ...
Manchester , unfortunately , holds a high , nearly the highest place , in the
melancholy returns of national mortality which are every year issued with their
boding columns of figures from Somerset House . The average number of yearly
deaths ...
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A cotton factory is nearly all windows , with ample arrangements for swinging
panes , so that the occupants may invite or exclude the air as they please .
Ventilating apparatus , too , is every year becoming more and more studied .
Hardly a ...
A cotton factory is nearly all windows , with ample arrangements for swinging
panes , so that the occupants may invite or exclude the air as they please .
Ventilating apparatus , too , is every year becoming more and more studied .
Hardly a ...
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Again , in houses of the first class , the Chorlton mortality is 1 in 52 — a rate
nearly as favourable as that of Windsor ; while in the worst species of tenements ,
the proportion ranges to the very high rate of 1 in 27 — the melancholy state of ...
Again , in houses of the first class , the Chorlton mortality is 1 in 52 — a rate
nearly as favourable as that of Windsor ; while in the worst species of tenements ,
the proportion ranges to the very high rate of 1 in 27 — the melancholy state of ...
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It is a melancholy , but an undoubted fact , that out of every 100 deaths in
Manchester , very nearly one - half — 48 and a fraction - are those of children
under 5 years of age ; while placing the period of life at 10 years , we find that 52
out of the ...
It is a melancholy , but an undoubted fact , that out of every 100 deaths in
Manchester , very nearly one - half — 48 and a fraction - are those of children
under 5 years of age ; while placing the period of life at 10 years , we find that 52
out of the ...
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The Godfrey ' is an old - fashioned preparation , and has been in use for nearly a
century . It is made of different degrees of strength , but on the average contains
about an ounce and a half of laudanum to the quart . The dose is from half a ...
The Godfrey ' is an old - fashioned preparation , and has been in use for nearly a
century . It is made of different degrees of strength , but on the average contains
about an ounce and a half of laudanum to the quart . The dose is from half a ...
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Էջ 1 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Էջ 7 - The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Էջ 10 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Էջ 3 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day...
Էջ 30 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Էջ 26 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Էջ 11 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Էջ 17 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a. second groan ; Sky loured ; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Էջ 7 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...