Dick Rodney, Or, The Adventures of an Eton Boy

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Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863 - 436 Seiten
 

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Seite 183 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Seite 42 - The pain which is felt when we are first transplanted from our native soil, when the living branch is cut from the parent tree, is one of the most poignant which we have to endure through life. There are...
Seite 416 - England, perhaps." one else cares about them), and which are surrounded by dangerous shoals. One of these isle• closely resembles the fantastic rocks of the Needles. at the west end of the Isle of Wight. On the Salvages the canary birds are so numerous, that an old voyager says " it is impossible to walk without crushing their eggs.
Seite 419 - Jack Manly ; His Adventures by Sea and Land. By JAMES GRANT, author of " The Romance of War,
Seite 247 - This substance is found floating on the surface of the sea near the coasts of India, Africa, and Brazil, and is supposed to be a concretion formed in the stomach of the spermaceti whale. It has...
Seite 76 - The storms revere, and roaring seas obey ! On thy supreme assistance we rely; Thy mercy supplicate, if doom'd to die! Perhaps this storm is sent with healing breath From neighbouring shores to scourge disease and death: 'Tis ours on thine unerring laws to trust, With thee, great Lord !
Seite 419 - THE WOODS; and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making. By W. HAMILTON GIBSON, Author of
Seite 419 - PEN AND INK SKETCHES IN NATURAL HISTORY ; with an Essay on Reason and Instinct. By the Rev. JC ATKINSON, &c. &c. NEW BOOK BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE PLAYBOOK OF SCIENCE." In post 8vo. cloth, price fs. 6d. MINES, MINERALS, AND METALS. By J. H. PEPPER, Author of "The Boy's Playbook of Science.
Seite 56 - Ghosts are at variance with the workings of Divine wisdom, and we all know what Jones of Nayland says thereupon." " No we don't," said Weston; " who the deuce was he—what port did he hail from ?" " ' He who cannot see the workings of a Divine wisdom in the order of the heavens, the change of the seasons, the flowing of the tides, the operations of the wind and other elements, the structure of the human body, the circulation of the blood, the instinct of beasts, and the growth of plants, is sottish...
Seite 320 - Trinidfid; so being a solemn, proud, and pompous grandee of Old Castile, he justly considered himself insulted by a vile mechanical contrivance, which he loudly denounced, stating " that it was not worth adopting, as the vessel did not go more than eight miles in two hours, which any caravel might do; and that the boiler was a Satanic affair, which was liable to burst and scald good Christians.

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