Miscellanies, Volumen2J.W. Parker and Son, 1860 |
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... chalk down , by applying chemical salts which were the exact equivalents of the crop he required , and that at a less expense than was required by the farmers round to grow a smaller crop on the best of soil ? If that be not ' practical ...
... chalk down , by applying chemical salts which were the exact equivalents of the crop he required , and that at a less expense than was required by the farmers round to grow a smaller crop on the best of soil ? If that be not ' practical ...
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... chalk counties of England —i.e. , from the strata which now supply hard water to London , and from which almost all the proposed plans wish still to supply it . One more count remains of our general indictment against the present ...
... chalk counties of England —i.e. , from the strata which now supply hard water to London , and from which almost all the proposed plans wish still to supply it . One more count remains of our general indictment against the present ...
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... chalk . Even now , the great brewers who are supplied by chalk wells are compelled to pump on separate days , to avoid exhausting the supply ; and the springs at Watford , twenty miles from London , are higher every Monday than during ...
... chalk . Even now , the great brewers who are supplied by chalk wells are compelled to pump on separate days , to avoid exhausting the supply ; and the springs at Watford , twenty miles from London , are higher every Monday than during ...
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... chalk , greensand , and wealden hills , from which , by some mysterious agency , every atom of carbonate of lime has disappeared , leaving nothing behind but their skeleton of sharp flint and sand . The imagination reels at the thought ...
... chalk , greensand , and wealden hills , from which , by some mysterious agency , every atom of carbonate of lime has disappeared , leaving nothing behind but their skeleton of sharp flint and sand . The imagination reels at the thought ...
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... chalk cutting ; and white mounds gleam cold a moment against the sky , and vanish ; and rocks , and grass , and bushes , fleet by in dim blended lines ; and the long hedges revolve like the spokes of a gigantic wheel ; and far below ...
... chalk cutting ; and white mounds gleam cold a moment against the sky , and vanish ; and rocks , and grass , and bushes , fleet by in dim blended lines ; and the long hedges revolve like the spokes of a gigantic wheel ; and far below ...
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Página 387 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 304 - And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Página 247 - And soon with this he other matter blended, Cheerfully uttered, with demeanour kind, But stately in the main ; and, when he ended, I could have laughed myself to scorn to find In that decrepit man so firm a mind.
Página 385 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Página 78 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth...
Página 129 - Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek And love to live in dimple sleek...
Página 191 - He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread : but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Página 108 - Fletcher; and lastly (without wrong last to be named), the right happy and copious industry of Master Shakespeare, Master Dekker, and Master Heywood; wishing what I write may be read by their light...
Página 387 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled ; thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Página 331 - ... between the living and the dead, that the plague may be stayed. Hardly less is the present physical state of our great cities felt by that numerous class which is, next to the employer, the most important in a city. I mean the shopmen, clerks, and all the men, principally young ones, who are employed exclusively in the work of distribution.