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... story beginning thus ? " There was pretation . Can any of your readers tell a time when all the body's members rebelled me if the matter has been explained so as to against the belly , and then accused it - informed that the whole story ...
... story beginning thus ? " There was pretation . Can any of your readers tell a time when all the body's members rebelled me if the matter has been explained so as to against the belly , and then accused it - informed that the whole story ...
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... story current in the Scottish border counties , which found its way into print , but , not having the account before me , I am compelled to trust to memory in reciting it . The story was to the effect that Hogg and Cunningham , who were ...
... story current in the Scottish border counties , which found its way into print , but , not having the account before me , I am compelled to trust to memory in reciting it . The story was to the effect that Hogg and Cunningham , who were ...
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... story referred to above . Hogg , however , saw it , and knew At the same time , let us glance at the parties mainly interested in Cromek's publication . There was Cromek himself , a man altogether destitute of critical faculty , and ...
... story referred to above . Hogg , however , saw it , and knew At the same time , let us glance at the parties mainly interested in Cromek's publication . There was Cromek himself , a man altogether destitute of critical faculty , and ...
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... story has perhaps some foundation arising out of loss of life on the river . It may not be wholly irrelevant to mention that an Act of 1603 ( 1 James I. c . 16 ) recites the loss of life caused by unskilful ferry- men between Windsor ...
... story has perhaps some foundation arising out of loss of life on the river . It may not be wholly irrelevant to mention that an Act of 1603 ( 1 James I. c . 16 ) recites the loss of life caused by unskilful ferry- men between Windsor ...
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... story referred to will be found in D'Israeli's Curiosities of Litera- ture , ' under the section headed Literary Impostures . ' Sir John Hill is said to have agreed to translate Swammerdam's History of Insects ' for 501. , but , knowing ...
... story referred to will be found in D'Israeli's Curiosities of Litera- ture , ' under the section headed Literary Impostures . ' Sir John Hill is said to have agreed to translate Swammerdam's History of Insects ' for 501. , but , knowing ...
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Seite 63 - ... began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, " Adsum! " and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master.
Seite 74 - That ye shall provide on this side the feast of next coming, one book of the whole Bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have cure of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it...
Seite 360 - And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her; In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbors.
Seite 225 - ... evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, " Adsum !
Seite 64 - OLD Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the underlying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones. The seasons bring the flower again, And bring the firstling to the flock; And in the dusk of thee, the clock Beats out the little lives of men.
Seite 360 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Seite 87 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Seite 261 - Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in Covenant with Thee through grace. And I may, I will, come to Thee, for Thy People. Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service...
Seite 175 - Smoking has gone out. To be sure, it is a shocking thing', blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us. Yet I cannot account, why a thing which requires so little exertion, and yet preserves the mind from total vacuity, should have gone out.
Seite 58 - But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man!