Pictures from the Battle Fields. By “The Roving Englishman” [E. C. Grenville Murray]. Sixth thousandG. Routledge & Company, 1856 - 259 Seiten |
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... for sanctuary . Has any young man among them written a book or made a speech , evidencing some signs of ability , he has been at once thrust contemptuously aside , and marked with a kind of civil proscription ; so that public PREFACE . XV.
... for sanctuary . Has any young man among them written a book or made a speech , evidencing some signs of ability , he has been at once thrust contemptuously aside , and marked with a kind of civil proscription ; so that public PREFACE . XV.
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... young whist- players , who are a great deal too fond of keeping the trump cards in their own hands . Affairs which at home occupy the whole attention of the keenest intellects are confided abroad to fiddlers and buffoons , who are quite ...
... young whist- players , who are a great deal too fond of keeping the trump cards in their own hands . Affairs which at home occupy the whole attention of the keenest intellects are confided abroad to fiddlers and buffoons , who are quite ...
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... young ladies by auction in the bazaars of Smyrna and Constantinople ? Or shall we take the straight path at last , and do that which is right and proper , which is decent and merciful ? We cannot hope for the success of any arms against ...
... young ladies by auction in the bazaars of Smyrna and Constantinople ? Or shall we take the straight path at last , and do that which is right and proper , which is decent and merciful ? We cannot hope for the success of any arms against ...
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... young nobility and gentry from Eton arrived , under the command of Dr. Hawtrey , carrying his rod of office , that even the rising generation might witness the dazzling effect produced by the pomp of glorious war , without any of its ...
... young nobility and gentry from Eton arrived , under the command of Dr. Hawtrey , carrying his rod of office , that even the rising generation might witness the dazzling effect produced by the pomp of glorious war , without any of its ...
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... young one . But a safe and wise diplomatist he is not ; and let things turn how they may , a most awful responsibility must rest upon him ; -the responsibility of having rashly disturbed a peace which has been one of the most hopeful ...
... young one . But a safe and wise diplomatist he is not ; and let things turn how they may , a most awful responsibility must rest upon him ; -the responsibility of having rashly disturbed a peace which has been one of the most hopeful ...
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Seite 243 - That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a
Seite 243 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a
Seite 5 - Sometimes the scene and the very title of his romance have been some renowned structure, a palace, a prison, or a fortress. It is thus with the * Tower of London,' ' Windsor Castle,'
Seite 259 - THE HISTORY OF ITALY; from the Fall of the Western Empire, to the Commencement of the Wars of the French Revolution. By GEORGE PERCEVAL, Esq.
Seite 3 - ... images of guilt and woe, they so clear our judgment by profound analysis, •while they move our hearts by terror or compassion, that we learn to detect and stifle in ourselves the evil thought which we see gradually unfolding itself into the guilty deed.
Seite 5 - But the readers of Mr. Ainsworth— who number thousands upon thousands— need hardly be informed of this; and now that a uniform edition of his works is published, we do not doubt but that this large number of readers even will be considerably increased.
Seite 18 - The articles are chiefly selected so as to afford a succession of graphic parts of English History, chronologically arranged, from the consideration that the portions of history upon which general readers delight to dwell are those which tell some story which is complete in itself, or furnish some illustration which has a separate as well as a general interest.
Seite 6 - Certainly no custom was ever more popular ; the fame of it is bruited throughout the length and breadth of the land. It is a subject that gives excellent scope to a writer of fiction ; and Mr. Ainsworth, by skilful treatment. has rendered it most entertaining The materials are put together with dramatic force.
Seite 28 - TUTOR'S ASSISTANT ; being a Com' * pendium of Arithmetic for the Use of Schools. A New and improved Edition, to which is added, an Appendix on the Decimal Coinage, by JR YOUNG, late Professor of Mathematics, Belfast College. " ' Walkingame's Tutor' is especially valuable for its copious variety of examples and extensive range of subjects ; and in its present more modernized, improved, and corrected form, it is hoped that it may continue to sustain the character it has so long possessed as a favourite...
Seite 1 - Edition, with Continuation to the Death of Wellington. With Portraits of all the Sovereigns. " In this edition, the editor has added some facts which had been overlooked by the author, and preceded the original work by a short notice of the earlier history, fathered from the old chroniclers, and continued to the present time.