English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, Band 2R. Bentley, 1866 |
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... told of Abernethy ; but to Dr. Fordyce belongs the paternity . DICK ENGLAND , THE GAMBLER . Towards the close of the last century among the most noted gamblers and blacklegs in the metropolis was Dick England , one of whose haunts was ...
... told of Abernethy ; but to Dr. Fordyce belongs the paternity . DICK ENGLAND , THE GAMBLER . Towards the close of the last century among the most noted gamblers and blacklegs in the metropolis was Dick England , one of whose haunts was ...
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... told by Colonel Wilks in his Sketches of the South of India : - " An English gentleman commanded one of the corps , and was most severely wounded after a desperate resist- ance ; others in the same unhappy situation met with friends ...
... told by Colonel Wilks in his Sketches of the South of India : - " An English gentleman commanded one of the corps , and was most severely wounded after a desperate resist- ance ; others in the same unhappy situation met with friends ...
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... told him , that if it was not for his woman he would pull him out of his rattletrap and tread on him . ' Here was a circumstance that caused my boyish mind considerable speculation . 6 . 6 Hard names and some swearing seemed not much ...
... told him , that if it was not for his woman he would pull him out of his rattletrap and tread on him . ' Here was a circumstance that caused my boyish mind considerable speculation . 6 . 6 Hard names and some swearing seemed not much ...
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... told that the beast was to vanquish me , I should at once have boxed with him . The combat I am now alluding to was not unlike one of a boy and bear . I stepped back , put in , and then gave way successfully , for a short time ; but at ...
... told that the beast was to vanquish me , I should at once have boxed with him . The combat I am now alluding to was not unlike one of a boy and bear . I stepped back , put in , and then gave way successfully , for a short time ; but at ...
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... told them that there was a column to be sold cheap in a stonemason's yard , which might answer their purpose . It was accordingly pur- chased ; a coronet was placed upon its summit ; and the memorial was set up on Weybridge Green , in ...
... told them that there was a column to be sold cheap in a stonemason's yard , which might answer their purpose . It was accordingly pur- chased ; a coronet was placed upon its summit ; and the memorial was set up on Weybridge Green , in ...
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Seite 288 - And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies ; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Seite 288 - And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they •worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast ? who is able to make war with him?
Seite 287 - It must be by his death: and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Seite 64 - When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ''weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!
Seite 288 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Seite 45 - By the time the cayman was within two yards of me, I saw he was in a state of fear and perturbation ; I instantly dropped the mast, sprung up, and jumped on his back, turning half round as I vaulted, so that I gained my seat with my face in a right position. I immediately seized his fore legs, and, by main force, twisted them on his back ; thus they served me for a bridle.
Seite 288 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Seite 250 - Met my Lady Newcastle going with her coaches and footmen all in velvet ; herself, whom I never saw before, as I have heard her often described, for all the town-talk, is nowadays of her extravagancies, with her velvet cap, her hair about her ears; many black patches, because of pimples about her mouth ; naked-necked, without anything about it, and a black just-au-corps.
Seite 64 - Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.
Seite 66 - Eternity, before my mortal life, and those works are the delight and study of archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality? The Lord our Father will do for us and with us according to His Divine will, for our good.