The enquirer's oracle: or, What to do and how to do it1884 |
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... player . The compass is four octaves , throughout which it has a com- plete chromatic scale . 1528n . Amateur ... players about the choice of pieces for study ; you will thus save much time . You should never play bad compo- sitions ...
... player . The compass is four octaves , throughout which it has a com- plete chromatic scale . 1528n . Amateur ... players about the choice of pieces for study ; you will thus save much time . You should never play bad compo- sitions ...
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... players . The player thus called upon must catch the trencher before it has done spinning ; failing this , he pays a forfeit . He then sets the trencher spinning in his turn , calling upon some other player . 1532. Riddles , as they are ...
... players . The player thus called upon must catch the trencher before it has done spinning ; failing this , he pays a forfeit . He then sets the trencher spinning in his turn , calling upon some other player . 1532. Riddles , as they are ...
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... player and one that hears him ? One plays for his pay , the other pays for his play . How do we know Moses wore a wig ? Because he was sometimes seen with Aaron and sometimes without ' air on . What is the difference between an accepted ...
... player and one that hears him ? One plays for his pay , the other pays for his play . How do we know Moses wore a wig ? Because he was sometimes seen with Aaron and sometimes without ' air on . What is the difference between an accepted ...
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... Players sometimes afford a great deal of amusement . In this pastime each player must represent by dumb show a proverb , or well - known quotation , of which the following is an example : - The performer takes something to represent a ...
... Players sometimes afford a great deal of amusement . In this pastime each player must represent by dumb show a proverb , or well - known quotation , of which the following is an example : - The performer takes something to represent a ...
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... player has to recite the question he received from one player and the answer he got from the other , and the ridiculous incongruity of these random cross - questions and crooked answers will frequently excite a good deal of sport . One ...
... player has to recite the question he received from one player and the answer he got from the other , and the ridiculous incongruity of these random cross - questions and crooked answers will frequently excite a good deal of sport . One ...
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Էջ 257 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Էջ 13 - Wommn, .• wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 20 - Man and wife are equally concerned to avoid all offences of each other in the beginning of their conversation: every little thing can blast an infant blossom; and the breath of the south can shake the little rings of the vine, when first they begin to curl like the locks of a new-weaned boy ; but when by age and consolidation they stiffen into the hardness of a stem, and have by the warm embraces of the sun and the kisses of heaven brought forth their clusters, they can endure the storms of the north,...
Էջ 21 - ... boy: but when, by age and consolidation, they stiffen into the hardness of a stem, and have, by the warm embraces of the sun and the kisses of heaven, brought forth their clusters, they can endure the storms of the north, and the loud noises of a tempest, and yet never be broken.
Էջ 210 - In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no whitewinged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction : a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward ; and the hand may be a little child's.
Էջ 260 - , WE are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features ; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
Էջ 160 - Any medical officer of health or inspector of nuisances may at all reasonable times inspect and examine any animal carcase meat poultry game flesh fish fruit vegetables corn bread flour or milk exposed for sale, or deposited in any place for the purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale, and intended for the food of man...
Էջ 14 - WITH this Ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow: In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Էջ 159 - Any medical officer of health, inspector of nuisances, or inspector of weights and measures, or any inspector of a market, or any police constable under the direction and at the cost of the local authority appointing such officer, inspector, or constable, or charged with the execution...
Էջ 14 - N. to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.