The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs, Volume 3John Timbs 1840 |
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... brought up at the Manchester Free Grammar School , one of the best public schools in the kingdom , and a very old foundation , as will be evident when the reader is told that among many other distinguished per- sons educated there , was ...
... brought up at the Manchester Free Grammar School , one of the best public schools in the kingdom , and a very old foundation , as will be evident when the reader is told that among many other distinguished per- sons educated there , was ...
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... brought home ; we kept that pleasure for ourselves . In rout- ing out the dust and cobwebs from its drawers and closets , we discovered , in one of them , a bundle of papers , tied together with some bobbin . We were about to com- mit ...
... brought home ; we kept that pleasure for ourselves . In rout- ing out the dust and cobwebs from its drawers and closets , we discovered , in one of them , a bundle of papers , tied together with some bobbin . We were about to com- mit ...
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... brought up toge- ther , and have sworn , ever since we were children , to live always for each other ? and that these pledges were renewed , when age gave strength and constancy to our attachment ? Do you want to make her and me unhappy ...
... brought up toge- ther , and have sworn , ever since we were children , to live always for each other ? and that these pledges were renewed , when age gave strength and constancy to our attachment ? Do you want to make her and me unhappy ...
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... brought from Italy in the this poor lad owns nothing but the four knapsack of one of Napoleon's corporals planks of his boat ; and unless he should - New York Mirror . be lucky enough to find the doge's ring- " 5204 0000. in - law of a ...
... brought from Italy in the this poor lad owns nothing but the four knapsack of one of Napoleon's corporals planks of his boat ; and unless he should - New York Mirror . be lucky enough to find the doge's ring- " 5204 0000. in - law of a ...
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... brought on , it is appre- hended , by a custom in which he indulged , of plunging into a cold bath every morn- ing , winter or summer , the instant he left his bed . Though repeatedly cautioned against the danger of such a course , he ...
... brought on , it is appre- hended , by a custom in which he indulged , of plunging into a cold bath every morn- ing , winter or summer , the instant he left his bed . Though repeatedly cautioned against the danger of such a course , he ...
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Page 200 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of; the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Page 166 - LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood — Even such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in, and paid to-night.
Page 110 - But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 165 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Page 159 - Tho' fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears!
Page 159 - Yes, there is a man in Westmoreland, And Johnny Armstrong they do him call." There, now, you plunge at once into the subject. You have no previous narration to lead you to it. The two next lines in that Ode are, I think, very good : "Though fann'd by conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state'.
Page 378 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them...
Page 337 - Bold and erect the Caledonian stood; Old was his mutton, and his claret good ; Let him drink port, the English statesman cried— He drank the poison, and his spirit died.
Page 268 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Page 49 - Well, madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.