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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... four pounds a - year . The hen - taker was , however , better paid ; as he received two pounds , five shillings , and sevenpence a quarter . The regular wages of the King's watermen were ten shillings a - quar ter ; but , it would ...
... four pounds a - year . The hen - taker was , however , better paid ; as he received two pounds , five shillings , and sevenpence a quarter . The regular wages of the King's watermen were ten shillings a - quar ter ; but , it would ...
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... four up and four down . If the stage be under seven miles , nine horses may do the work ; but no horse in a fast coach can continue to run every day , the excitement of high keep and profuse sweating producing disease . In practice ...
... four up and four down . If the stage be under seven miles , nine horses may do the work ; but no horse in a fast coach can continue to run every day , the excitement of high keep and profuse sweating producing disease . In practice ...
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... 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 in ...
... 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 in ...
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... four in breadth ; each of which principal compart- ments is again subdivided , by moulded styles , into four smaller divisions or panels , as near- ly square as the coving of the ceiling would admit . From the points of intersection of ...
... four in breadth ; each of which principal compart- ments is again subdivided , by moulded styles , into four smaller divisions or panels , as near- ly square as the coving of the ceiling would admit . From the points of intersection of ...
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... four bastions , enclosing the tower , and forming altogether a very strong citadel . Blaye has a Tribunal de Premiere Instance , a Tribunal of Commerce , an Agricultural Society , and a theatre . The centre of the town is ornamented by ...
... four bastions , enclosing the tower , and forming altogether a very strong citadel . Blaye has a Tribunal de Premiere Instance , a Tribunal of Commerce , an Agricultural Society , and a theatre . The centre of the town is ornamented by ...
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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.