The Leisure Hour, Հատորներ 367-418W. Stevens, printer, 1859 |
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... miles in the rear , and the dawn was just beginuing to blanch the dull north- eastern sky , when far in the distance ... mile- an - hour pace , in a temperature near zero ? We put the question as we came up . " Ah ! " said the good is ...
... miles in the rear , and the dawn was just beginuing to blanch the dull north- eastern sky , when far in the distance ... mile- an - hour pace , in a temperature near zero ? We put the question as we came up . " Ah ! " said the good is ...
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... miles in his solitary course , where not a sound greets his cars save the echoes of his steel - shod feet , and where , perhaps , for hours together , he sees no signs of animated existence , he is aware of a feeling analogous to that ...
... miles in his solitary course , where not a sound greets his cars save the echoes of his steel - shod feet , and where , perhaps , for hours together , he sees no signs of animated existence , he is aware of a feeling analogous to that ...
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... miles at a stretch , favoured , indeed , by a fair autumnal night , but , allowing an hour for waiting and rest , fully seven miles and a half an hour , on a Highland trot - the sort of step on which they always ran when in haste - a ...
... miles at a stretch , favoured , indeed , by a fair autumnal night , but , allowing an hour for waiting and rest , fully seven miles and a half an hour , on a Highland trot - the sort of step on which they always ran when in haste - a ...
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... miles towards the shore , and in every direction , where were only three or four country seats , is now covered by a noble and populous city . A tumble - down - looking old - fashion- ed inn on the beach near Newhaven , famed for fish ...
... miles towards the shore , and in every direction , where were only three or four country seats , is now covered by a noble and populous city . A tumble - down - looking old - fashion- ed inn on the beach near Newhaven , famed for fish ...
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... miles ( including 60 miles of tunnels ) , at a cost of about £ 120,000,000 sterling . During this session Mr. Stephenson appeared as engineer for only one new fine the Buxton , Macclesfield , Congleton , and Crewe Railway , and for ...
... miles ( including 60 miles of tunnels ) , at a cost of about £ 120,000,000 sterling . During this session Mr. Stephenson appeared as engineer for only one new fine the Buxton , Macclesfield , Congleton , and Crewe Railway , and for ...
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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.