Old Leaves: Gathered from Household WordsChapman and Hall, 1860 - 437 Seiten |
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... passed through the post - offices of the United Kingdom during last year , and to every 100 of them about 50 had ... passed through the office.t It was by this means that our friends obtained the following account of the number of ...
... passed through the post - offices of the United Kingdom during last year , and to every 100 of them about 50 had ... passed through the office.t It was by this means that our friends obtained the following account of the number of ...
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... passed from village to village within the suburban limits of the district post without reaching the chief office — and 100,000 destined for the provinces and places beyond sea , which were transferred to the Inland Department . The ...
... passed from village to village within the suburban limits of the district post without reaching the chief office — and 100,000 destined for the provinces and places beyond sea , which were transferred to the Inland Department . The ...
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... passed through the post was 76 millions . In 1840 came the uniform penny , and for that year the number was 162 millions , or an increase of 93 millions , equal to 123 per cent . That was the grand start ; afterwards the rate of ...
... passed through the post was 76 millions . In 1840 came the uniform penny , and for that year the number was 162 millions , or an increase of 93 millions , equal to 123 per cent . That was the grand start ; afterwards the rate of ...
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... passed from hand to hand , in an appa- rently interminable and hopeless confusion , but really in a system of admirable order , certainty , and simplicity , pursued six nights every week , all through the rolling year . Which of us ...
... passed from hand to hand , in an appa- rently interminable and hopeless confusion , but really in a system of admirable order , certainty , and simplicity , pursued six nights every week , all through the rolling year . Which of us ...
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... passing for lieutenant , and my being turned back ? " was the rejoinder . " Bobbin , though a dandy , is a good seaman , and - and- " The speaker looked another way , and hesitated . " I am not , you would say - if you had courage . am ...
... passing for lieutenant , and my being turned back ? " was the rejoinder . " Bobbin , though a dandy , is a good seaman , and - and- " The speaker looked another way , and hesitated . " I am not , you would say - if you had courage . am ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alfreton appeared asked Bank of England Bank-note Bevil Bovington Calder called carriage clerk colours Company corner Crample Crookston Dodo door Eusta exclaimed eyes face fish five forgery Fortnum and Mason four gentleman George Dornley glass hand head Hockle horse hour hundred inquiry Inspector John Clare letters live London look Lord Matthew Marshall ment miles millions minutes Miss Bliss months morning never newspapers night Nobble notes Nottingham o'clock Old Lady Old Lady's paper passed pawnbroking Paxton person plate poor Post-office pounds sterling present Prince prisoner railway replied round Royal Royal George Rrobrecht Serene Highness servant shillings Smithy Houses sort Spitalfields Squire station thousand pounds tion took turned twenty Uncle Victoria Regia Vollum watch whole wife window woman words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 262 - is Freedom's chosen station; Here peals the people's voice, nor can entomb it Racks, prisons, inquisitions ; resurrection Awaits it, each new meeting or election.
Seite 162 - ... a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind: which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm. him at one time with the unbounded extent of...
Seite 66 - On every side stood buildings of all kinds, begun or half-finished, and the greater part of them mere canvas sheds, open in front, and covered with all kinds of signs, in all languages. Great quantities of goods were piled up in the open air, for want of a place to store them. The streets were full of people, hurrying to and fro, and of as diverse and bizarre a character as the houses...
Seite 148 - I felt lu as a botanist, and felt myself rewarded : a gigantic leaf from five to six feet in diameter, salver-shaped, with a broad rim ; of a light green above, and a vivid crimson below, resting upon the water. Quite in character with the wonderful leaf was the luxuriant flower, consisting of many hundred petals, passing in alternate tints from pure white to rose and pink. The smooth water was covered with the blossoms, and as I rowed from one to the other I always observed something new to admire.
Seite 104 - It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense.
Seite 161 - Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniencies of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world...
Seite 33 - Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood ! EPIGRAM.
Seite 71 - steward!" from all parts of the room — the word "waiter" is not considered sufficiently respectful, seeing that the waiter may have been a lawyer or a merchant's clerk a few months before.
Seite 195 - The recent assumption of certain ecclesiastical titles, conferred by a foreign power, has excited strong feelings in this country, and large bodies of my subjects have presented addresses to me, expressing attachment to the throne, and praying that such assumptions should be resisted. I have assured them...
Seite 61 - ... the parent animals are thus brought within the reach of man, who, but for the action of this law, would be deprived of many of those species most valuable to him as food. For the mackerel dispersed over the immense surface of the deep, no effective fishery could be carried on ; but, approaching the shore as they do from all directions, and roving along the coast collected in immense shoals, millions are caught, which yet form but a very small portion compared with the myriads that escape.