Evenings at Home, Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons, Band 3J. Johnson, 1805 |
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Seite 152 - What do you do when it rains ? B. If it rams very hard, I get under the hedge till it is over. Mr L. What do you do when you are hungry before it is time to go home ? B.
Seite 151 - I always ride the horses to field, and bring up the cows, and run to the town of errands, and that is as good as play, you know. Mr L. Well, but you could buy apples or gingerbread at the town, I suppose, if you had money ? B.
Seite 125 - ... of which the world is composed, draws towards it every other particle of matter, with a force proportioned to its size and distance. Lay two marbles on the table. They have a tendency to come together, and if there were nothing else in the world, they would...
Seite 161 - She advanced smiling to the girl, and with a familiar air thus addressed her : — " My dearest Melissa, I am a kind genius, who have watched you from your birth, and have joyfully beheld all your beauties expand, till at length they have rendered you a companion worthy of me. See what I have brought you. This dress and this ticket will give you free access to all the ravishing delights of my palace.
Seite 164 - For myself, I shall never seem to you less amiable than I now do, but on the contrary, you will like me better and better. If I look grave to you now, you will hear me sing at my work ; and when work is over, I can dance too.
Seite 122 - PAPA," said Lucy, " I have been reading to-day, that Sir Isaac Newton was led to make some of his great discoveries by seeing an apple fall from a tree. What was there extraordinary in that ? " P. There was nothing extraordinary ; but it happened to catch his attention, and set him a thinking.
Seite 150 - Mr. L. Don't you ? So much the better for you. Few men can say as much. But, pray, what were you doing in the field?
Seite 150 - I shall go to my dinner soon. Mr. L. If you had sixpence now, what would you do with it ? B. I don't know ; I never had so much in my life. Mr. L. Have you no playthings ? B.
Seite 64 - So he rioted alone among the good things, and stuffed till he could hardly walk. For two or three days this course of life went on very pleasantly. He ate, and ate, and played the bugbear to perfection.
Seite 153 - Then I do as well as I can; I work on, and never think of it. Mr. L. Are you not dry sometimes this hot weather? B. Yes, but there is water enough. Mr. L. Why, my little fellow, you are quite a philosopher ! B. Sir? Mr. L. I say, you are a philosopher, but I am sure you do not know what that means.