Miscellanies, Volumen2J.W. Parker and Son, 1860 |
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... towns , though it was poi- soning hundreds yearly by epidemics . But the science du néant took little account of such plain matters ; after all , why help to support more human beings , when it had settled long ago that there were too ...
... towns , though it was poi- soning hundreds yearly by epidemics . But the science du néant took little account of such plain matters ; after all , why help to support more human beings , when it had settled long ago that there were too ...
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... town ? ' So , too , at Pernambuco . Can one wonder at the recurrence of yellow fever , while there is not a drain of any sort , and all imaginable filth lies in the streets ; ' or that the resources of the country should be altogether ...
... town ? ' So , too , at Pernambuco . Can one wonder at the recurrence of yellow fever , while there is not a drain of any sort , and all imaginable filth lies in the streets ; ' or that the resources of the country should be altogether ...
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... town manure a couple of miles ! Tens of thousands here glad enough of sheep's trotters or tripe once a week ; good beef in tons putrefying there . It is sad and ludicrous enough : the one comfort is , that the laws of supply and demand ...
... town manure a couple of miles ! Tens of thousands here glad enough of sheep's trotters or tripe once a week ; good beef in tons putrefying there . It is sad and ludicrous enough : the one comfort is , that the laws of supply and demand ...
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... town , where the soil is clay , and the surface covered with little shallow pools of water , with pretty water - plants and quantities of wading birds , I saw the most magnificent bird I ever beheld ; he must be the king that was sent ...
... town , where the soil is clay , and the surface covered with little shallow pools of water , with pretty water - plants and quantities of wading birds , I saw the most magnificent bird I ever beheld ; he must be the king that was sent ...
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... towns taken , spoiled , burnt , and sacked - the King's said subjects in all this time , by the high providence and politic means of his Grace , have been nevertheless preserved , defended , and main- tained from all these inconvenients ...
... towns taken , spoiled , burnt , and sacked - the King's said subjects in all this time , by the high providence and politic means of his Grace , have been nevertheless preserved , defended , and main- tained from all these inconvenients ...
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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.