The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Band 21J. Limbird, 1833 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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... feet by nine , with a good fire ( we write on a cold day in spring ) one window to the S. E. , surrounded with piles of miscellaneous literature , ( for his library is the adjacent , a handsome room , painted blue and white , with ...
... feet by nine , with a good fire ( we write on a cold day in spring ) one window to the S. E. , surrounded with piles of miscellaneous literature , ( for his library is the adjacent , a handsome room , painted blue and white , with ...
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... feet . The price we have named as the average one for such animals may appear a very low one : but we must remember that to be a hunter a horse must have length of shoulder , length of frame , well placed hinder legs , and a well ...
... feet . The price we have named as the average one for such animals may appear a very low one : but we must remember that to be a hunter a horse must have length of shoulder , length of frame , well placed hinder legs , and a well ...
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... feet four inches , the hinder four feet eight inches . As the former turn * To give one instance the Worcester mail was one of the slowest on the road , and the oftenest over- turned . She is now fast , and reckoned one of the saftest ...
... feet four inches , the hinder four feet eight inches . As the former turn * To give one instance the Worcester mail was one of the slowest on the road , and the oftenest over- turned . She is now fast , and reckoned one of the saftest ...
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... feet 6 wide , and 7 feet high . The existence of a fire - place in a hall of the age of Crosby Place , is at least singular , if not unique . The fire was made on a hearth in the centre of the floor of the ancient dining- halls , and ...
... feet 6 wide , and 7 feet high . The existence of a fire - place in a hall of the age of Crosby Place , is at least singular , if not unique . The fire was made on a hearth in the centre of the floor of the ancient dining- halls , and ...
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... feet four inches square and one foot six inches deep , supported in its centre by a cylinder of the same material , ornament- ed with horizontal rings , so as much to re- semble a barrel , and at each angle by a plain pillar of white ...
... feet four inches square and one foot six inches deep , supported in its centre by a cylinder of the same material , ornament- ed with horizontal rings , so as much to re- semble a barrel , and at each angle by a plain pillar of white ...
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Seite 126 - The people of the State of New York, by the Grace of God, Free and Independent...
Seite 184 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these when those are pass'd away.
Seite 224 - •Sir, — I have two silver tea-spoons at London, and two at Bristol : this is all the plate which I have at present ; and I shall not buy any more while so many around me want bread. I am, sir, your most humble servant, JOHN WESLEY/' Perhaps there never was a more charitable man than Mr.
Seite 249 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moones sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs...
Seite 204 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
Seite 139 - And Wordsworth, in a rather long " Excursion " (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version • Of his new system to perplex the sages; ' 'Tis poetry — at least by his assertion.
Seite 431 - Venus, a pea on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet...
Seite 280 - It were better for, him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Seite 160 - you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world.' 'I don't know how great men you may be,' said the Guinea man, ' but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
Seite 304 - What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye. Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show — Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow.