The Roscoe magazine and Lancashire and Cheshire literary reporter1849 |
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... head of the Persian Gulf , and on the west side of these mountains lie the rich and fertile plain of Mesopota- mia , watered by the Euphrates and the Tigris . It will thus be seen that the want of navigable rivers , the presence of so ...
... head of the Persian Gulf , and on the west side of these mountains lie the rich and fertile plain of Mesopota- mia , watered by the Euphrates and the Tigris . It will thus be seen that the want of navigable rivers , the presence of so ...
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... heads with a significant air , and foretel the impracticability of establishing another institution in Liverpool . They pointed to one , in illustration , which had commenced with great eclat ; had a brilliant but short existence , and ...
... heads with a significant air , and foretel the impracticability of establishing another institution in Liverpool . They pointed to one , in illustration , which had commenced with great eclat ; had a brilliant but short existence , and ...
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... and comprehensive one . It may be generally arranged under the following heads : -Histori- cal documents , antiquities , genealogy and biography , architecture and the fine arts , natural history , costumes , customs , 26 THE ROSCOE.
... and comprehensive one . It may be generally arranged under the following heads : -Histori- cal documents , antiquities , genealogy and biography , architecture and the fine arts , natural history , costumes , customs , 26 THE ROSCOE.
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... head from his father's breast . " May God bless thee , " cried the old man , " I have felt myself younger , in heart at least , every day since I saw thee . It is a curious fact , " he continu- ed , addressing Mr. Clifton , " that in ...
... head from his father's breast . " May God bless thee , " cried the old man , " I have felt myself younger , in heart at least , every day since I saw thee . It is a curious fact , " he continu- ed , addressing Mr. Clifton , " that in ...
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... head ; you have heard men call me Clifton , the happy . The palpable moral of my early life you can read , but the moral of my deeper life - the life of thought in my soul - you cannot dis- cern I will read it . The reformation of the ...
... head ; you have heard men call me Clifton , the happy . The palpable moral of my early life you can read , but the moral of my deeper life - the life of thought in my soul - you cannot dis- cern I will read it . The reformation of the ...
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Стр. 75 - And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
Стр. 86 - My bellows, too, have lost their wind; . My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to be bless'd.
Стр. 75 - But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn incense before him ? Now therefore send me a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue...
Стр. 16 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Стр. 102 - ... the left. You must now give proofs of principle, determination, and strength of mind, — or you must sink into idleness, and acquire the habits and character of a desultory, ineffective young man ; and if once you fall to that point, you will find it no easy matter to rise again. " I am sure that a young man may be very much what he pleases.
Стр. 95 - ... to have been celebrated.* April, with us, is sometimes represented as a girl clothed in green, with a garland of myrtle and hawthorn buds ; holding in one hand primroses and violets, and in the other the zodiacal sign, Taurus, or the bull, into which constellation the sun enters during this month.
Стр. 174 - ... above the surface, while a short piece under the same circumstances rises very slowly. In a chimney where one foot in height of the column of hot air is one ounce lighter than the same bulk of the external cold air, if the chimney be one hundred feet high, the air or smoke in it is propelled upwards with a force of one hundred ounces. In all cases, therefore, the draught, as it is called, of a chimney, is proportioned to its length.
Стр. 27 - If a collection could be made", said the late Dr. Stanley, Bishop of Norwich, "of all the isolated and floating facts connected with the various branches of topographical knowledge, it is obvious that thus an invaluable body of information and ample store of materials might be amassed, of the utmost importance to the traveller, the antiquarian, the man of science, and the naturalist.
Стр. 86 - Picts and Scots, who were frequently driven back and defeated by the garrison. It would appear that the Roman Castrum was on the site of the present castle, the outline of the camp being an ellipsis, with a double wall and moat round the summit of the hill, part of which latter still remains. From the foundations which have been discovered, and from two round towers hereafter to be mentioned, it is evident that the erection as formed by the Romans was a Polygon, probably a Heptagon, the towers of...
Стр. 76 - Upon the outside were inscribed, in Egyptian characters, the various sums of money expended, in the progress of the work, for the radishes, onions, and garlic consumed by the artificers. This...