Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside, Volume 3Church & Company, 1853 |
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... mean by that ? What W. the Elder . Ah ! I see ; the custom has sprung up since your day . Jon . What is it , what is it ? A summer or a winter garment ? W. the Elder . It is a playful manifestation of popular regard , and worn in all ...
... mean by that ? What W. the Elder . Ah ! I see ; the custom has sprung up since your day . Jon . What is it , what is it ? A summer or a winter garment ? W. the Elder . It is a playful manifestation of popular regard , and worn in all ...
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... means a thorough going old tory , and enemy of progress , -just what you would have been , asking your pardon this very mo- ment , had you been a live yankee and voter in the empire State here , and not an English ghost . John . But why ...
... means a thorough going old tory , and enemy of progress , -just what you would have been , asking your pardon this very mo- ment , had you been a live yankee and voter in the empire State here , and not an English ghost . John . But why ...
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... means of relieving your crowded family ; besides , they , say , no Englishman will leave his country while he can keep body and soul in her ; and an Irishman would rather exist in Ireland on potatoes than in exile on the daintiest food ...
... means of relieving your crowded family ; besides , they , say , no Englishman will leave his country while he can keep body and soul in her ; and an Irishman would rather exist in Ireland on potatoes than in exile on the daintiest food ...
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... means meanly either ; an amount , to earn which we are obliged to labor for many an hour . We do think it the duty of the press to aid in abolishing these high prices - they are anti- republican , and degrade us in the very eyes of ...
... means meanly either ; an amount , to earn which we are obliged to labor for many an hour . We do think it the duty of the press to aid in abolishing these high prices - they are anti- republican , and degrade us in the very eyes of ...
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... means sufficient for travelling among the people of England in his modest fashion . " DO OYSTERS TURN P -The Home Journal states that when oysters , not interfered with , or transplanted by man , take a natural position , and adhere to ...
... means sufficient for travelling among the people of England in his modest fashion . " DO OYSTERS TURN P -The Home Journal states that when oysters , not interfered with , or transplanted by man , take a natural position , and adhere to ...
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Page 180 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Page 267 - For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords.
Page 181 - At this sermon there was also one of our club, who, being of my sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended, had by precaution emptied his pockets before he came from home. Towards the conclusion of the discourse, however, he felt a strong...
Page 138 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 293 - Whoever speaks to her, it is kneeling ; now and then she raises some with her hand. While we were there, W. Slawata, a Bohemian baron, had letters to present to her ; and she, after pulling off her glove, gave him her right hand to kiss, sparkling with rings and jewels — a mark of particular favour. Wherever she turned her face, as she was going along, everybody fell down on their knees.
Page 293 - English fashion, strewed with hay, through which the queen commonly passes in her way to chapel. At the door stood a gentleman dressed in velvet, with a gold chain, whose office was to introduce to the queen any person of distinction that came to wait on her. It was Sunday, when there is usually the greatest attendance of nobility. In the same hall were the Archbishop of Canterbury...
Page 200 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Page 293 - She had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels; her hands were small ; her fingers long ; and her stature neither tall nor low ; her air was stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Page 297 - He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before his death. He ordered his tomb to be erected in the chapel of the monastery. His domestics marched thither in funeral procession, with black tapers in their hands. He himself followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin, with much solemnity.
Page 294 - When they had waited there a little while, the yeomen of the guard entered, bare-headed, clothed in scarlet, with a golden rose upon their backs, bringing in, at each turn, a course of...