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... Dress 414 Remaining Traits 116 Singular Mode of Treatment for Cholera Bantam Cock 88 407 · Bear , destroying a 72 Himalayas , Residence among the 197 Squire of the Seventeenth Cen- Singular Story of a Recluse 63 Beneficence 40 Hints ...
... Dress 414 Remaining Traits 116 Singular Mode of Treatment for Cholera Bantam Cock 88 407 · Bear , destroying a 72 Himalayas , Residence among the 197 Squire of the Seventeenth Cen- Singular Story of a Recluse 63 Beneficence 40 Hints ...
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... their horses , their own gigantic size , the peculiar dress of the women , the child - like and unsophisticated simplicity of their conversation , amused me exceedingly . Nothing could afford a more striking 6 CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL .
... their horses , their own gigantic size , the peculiar dress of the women , the child - like and unsophisticated simplicity of their conversation , amused me exceedingly . Nothing could afford a more striking 6 CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL .
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... dresses hung round my sleeping - room , all of cotton , raised and manufac tured , and coloured in the family . The ladies of cities are not more inwardly gratified with the possession of the newest and most costly furniture , than ...
... dresses hung round my sleeping - room , all of cotton , raised and manufac tured , and coloured in the family . The ladies of cities are not more inwardly gratified with the possession of the newest and most costly furniture , than ...
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... dress , which is neither of good materials nor well fitted . In looking along the ranks at a parade , you will see many of the men with glaring patches of red cloth on the knees of their faded trousers . I do not remember there you see ...
... dress , which is neither of good materials nor well fitted . In looking along the ranks at a parade , you will see many of the men with glaring patches of red cloth on the knees of their faded trousers . I do not remember there you see ...
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... dress- of which we engage to catch trout over all the king - ing , commendable both for its simplicity and expedi . dom . Knowledge and practice have convinced us of tion . It differs , we find , somewhat from that gene- for trout to ...
... dress- of which we engage to catch trout over all the king - ing , commendable both for its simplicity and expedi . dom . Knowledge and practice have convinced us of tion . It differs , we find , somewhat from that gene- for trout to ...
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Página 16 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 85 - Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide: There like a bird it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings ; And till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Página 56 - O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream. The merry homes of England, Around their hearths by night, What gladsome looks of household love Meet in the ruddy light ' There woman's voice flows forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told ; Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page of old.
Página 116 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate, he found his parishioners very irregular: and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book ; and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Página 92 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Página 92 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Página 116 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then...
Página 132 - Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Página 112 - O'er each fair sleeping brow, She had each folded flower in sight— Where are those dreamers now? One midst the forests of the West, By a dark stream, is laid ; The Indian knows his place of rest Far in the cedar shade.
Página 92 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer told me, that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the University to find him out a Clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of backgammon. My friend...