The Leisure Hour, Հատորներ 367-418W. Stevens, printer, 1859 |
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... brought all his high intellectual qualities , and all the grandeur and heroism of his character . During the great concerted whig movement in 1682 and 1683 , he was the object of every one's confidence , of every one's veneration . He ...
... brought all his high intellectual qualities , and all the grandeur and heroism of his character . During the great concerted whig movement in 1682 and 1683 , he was the object of every one's confidence , of every one's veneration . He ...
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... brought to the bar wrapt in his night - gown ; and his sister sat at his side and supported him , and had often to adminis ter cordials to keep him from fainting away . That " tinkling cymbal " of tyranny , Sir George Macken- zic ...
... brought to the bar wrapt in his night - gown ; and his sister sat at his side and supported him , and had often to adminis ter cordials to keep him from fainting away . That " tinkling cymbal " of tyranny , Sir George Macken- zic ...
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... brought in here . Good night . Clencher . Hold ! am I to be in the dark ? Grabb . After nine o'clock no lights are given . Clencher . But if one pays for it ? Grabb . Oh , that is another thing ; there is no rule without an exception ...
... brought in here . Good night . Clencher . Hold ! am I to be in the dark ? Grabb . After nine o'clock no lights are given . Clencher . But if one pays for it ? Grabb . Oh , that is another thing ; there is no rule without an exception ...
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... brought in , which amounted in the whole to more than 100,000 . In addition to this it may be mentioned that polecats , kites , hawks , and owls visited the holes regularly , and preyed upon the mice caught in them ; and a small owl ...
... brought in , which amounted in the whole to more than 100,000 . In addition to this it may be mentioned that polecats , kites , hawks , and owls visited the holes regularly , and preyed upon the mice caught in them ; and a small owl ...
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... brought pigeons as pets - some fowls - and , one set of people , two noisy hungry goats , which were chained up under our bed - room window , and bleated mournfully all day and night . Occasionally they broke loose , and , in common ...
... brought pigeons as pets - some fowls - and , one set of people , two noisy hungry goats , which were chained up under our bed - room window , and bleated mournfully all day and night . Occasionally they broke loose , and , in common ...
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Էջ 261 - Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Էջ 450 - Rip now resumed his old walks and habits; he soon found many of his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time, and preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom he soon grew into great favor.
Էջ 389 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Էջ 182 - I thank your ladyship for the information concerning the Methodist preachers ; their doctrines are most repulsive, and strongly tinctured with impertinence and disrespect towards their superiors in perpetually endeavouring to level all ranks and do away with all distinctions. It is monstrous to be told that you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl on the earth. This is highly offensive and insulting, and I cannot but wonder that your ladyship should relish any sentiments so much...
Էջ 392 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Էջ 96 - The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Էջ 269 - Club," compared himself to a spider, and by another is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy, but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak; and, as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his deformity was probably in part the effect of his application. His...
Էջ 244 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Էջ 390 - As we were returning to our inn, we happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvest Home ; their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhaps they would signify Ceres : this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maidservants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn.
Էջ 125 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.