The national reading books, adapted to the government code. adapted to the new code, 1871, Volumen6 |
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... King- Modern Inventions , Discoveries , & c ... doms 13 176 Cato Street Conspiracy , 1820 17 Various Uses of Trees and Plants .. 177 Napoleon Buonaparte's Wars 18 American War for Independence 23 Scientific Section . British Conquests ...
... King- Modern Inventions , Discoveries , & c ... doms 13 176 Cato Street Conspiracy , 1820 17 Various Uses of Trees and Plants .. 177 Napoleon Buonaparte's Wars 18 American War for Independence 23 Scientific Section . British Conquests ...
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... King William the Fourth - the sailor king , as he was called , inasmuch as he had been a mid- shipman , and had passed through several grades in the Royal Navy - was the passing of the Reform Bill , in 1832. To under- stand the meaning ...
... King William the Fourth - the sailor king , as he was called , inasmuch as he had been a mid- shipman , and had passed through several grades in the Royal Navy - was the passing of the Reform Bill , in 1832. To under- stand the meaning ...
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... king would not agree to his resignation , and the short - lived Parliament was dissolved by the king in person . When the new Parliament met it was found to be more clamorous for reform than the preceding one . Another Reform bill was ...
... king would not agree to his resignation , and the short - lived Parliament was dissolved by the king in person . When the new Parliament met it was found to be more clamorous for reform than the preceding one . Another Reform bill was ...
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... power and twenty - five tons , began to run between Helensburgh and Glasgow . From " loch to river , from river to narrow channels of Six . ] 13 MODERN INVENTIONS , & c . the Vegetable and Animal King- Modern Inventions, Discoveries, doms.
... power and twenty - five tons , began to run between Helensburgh and Glasgow . From " loch to river , from river to narrow channels of Six . ] 13 MODERN INVENTIONS , & c . the Vegetable and Animal King- Modern Inventions, Discoveries, doms.
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... King's College , London , whose scientific labours in the investiga- tion of electricity deserve the warmest praise . Having met , talked , and experimented , they jointly produced a series of wires and needles , by which a message ...
... King's College , London , whose scientific labours in the investiga- tion of electricity deserve the warmest praise . Having met , talked , and experimented , they jointly produced a series of wires and needles , by which a message ...
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Página 27 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 105 - Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Página 237 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Página 250 - Speak, father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!" And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
Página 238 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?
Página 237 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. How can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?
Página 247 - Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low, the woods Bow their hoar head ; and, ere the languid Sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Página 250 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
Página 194 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life ; not one who had lived and suffered death.
Página 224 - Will, is a particular favourite of all the young heirs, whom he frequently obliges with a net that he has weaved, or a settingdog that he has made himself : He now and then presents a pair of garters of his own knitting to their mothers or sisters ; and raises a great deal of mirth among them, by inquiring as often as he meets them how they wear ? These gentlemanlike manufactures and obliging little humours, make Will, the darling of the country.