Chambers's Edinburgh JournalW. Orr, 1836 |
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... passed through his mind . He was allowed paper , pen , and ink , by the jailor , but was obliged to account for every sheet he used , by exhi- biting its contents . He did not venture , therefore , to make use of any part of his ...
... passed through his mind . He was allowed paper , pen , and ink , by the jailor , but was obliged to account for every sheet he used , by exhi- biting its contents . He did not venture , therefore , to make use of any part of his ...
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... passed round traveller is very great . If it were possible to suppose him to take off the weight , and the only means of that many thousands of persons of all ages could be suspension consisted in two bright hooks , inserted in ...
... passed round traveller is very great . If it were possible to suppose him to take off the weight , and the only means of that many thousands of persons of all ages could be suspension consisted in two bright hooks , inserted in ...
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... passed through her mind . She | the hope , the expectation , almost placed the bystand- looked back on all her former life , and could not re- ers in as great an apprehension as the principals . collect that ever she had been so very ...
... passed through her mind . She | the hope , the expectation , almost placed the bystand- looked back on all her former life , and could not re- ers in as great an apprehension as the principals . collect that ever she had been so very ...
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... passed over to North America . Similar changes have taken place at Paris ; and a few years ago the variation there was ascertained by M. Arago to be 22 ° 12 ′ 5 ′′ west . In the year 1818 , it appears to have reached its maximum at ...
... passed over to North America . Similar changes have taken place at Paris ; and a few years ago the variation there was ascertained by M. Arago to be 22 ° 12 ′ 5 ′′ west . In the year 1818 , it appears to have reached its maximum at ...
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... passed at once into a state of complete exclusion from the world . If the friends of the prisoner inquired after him , it was denied , even with oaths and imprecations , that he was in confinement ; and the governor has been known to ...
... passed at once into a state of complete exclusion from the world . If the friends of the prisoner inquired after him , it was denied , even with oaths and imprecations , that he was in confinement ; and the governor has been known 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...