The North American Miscellany, Том 2Albert Palmer and Company, 1851 |
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... whole wielded by a giant of colossal strength . One scoop - full ( or , more agreeably to the nomenclature given to the anatomy of this anomalous animal , one scraper - full ) suffices to fill a car , and two cars are sufficient for a ...
... whole wielded by a giant of colossal strength . One scoop - full ( or , more agreeably to the nomenclature given to the anatomy of this anomalous animal , one scraper - full ) suffices to fill a car , and two cars are sufficient for a ...
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... whole battery of lorgnettes , or a pathetic song breathed into an ear- trumpet . It is , in short , something that every body , without exception , would avoid giving , if they could , and yet something which , being reputed a trifle ...
... whole battery of lorgnettes , or a pathetic song breathed into an ear- trumpet . It is , in short , something that every body , without exception , would avoid giving , if they could , and yet something which , being reputed a trifle ...
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... whole pith , leaving the outer rind , and thus making , inside the circle of leaves , a bowl like cavity , about two feet deep and eighteen inches wide , according to the size of the plant . This cavity is soon filled with the sap which ...
... whole pith , leaving the outer rind , and thus making , inside the circle of leaves , a bowl like cavity , about two feet deep and eighteen inches wide , according to the size of the plant . This cavity is soon filled with the sap which ...
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... whole apparatus for making gas and the mode of its purification seem to be so perfect in well - constructed gas - works , that it is doubtful whether much remains to be done either in simplifying the processes or im- proving the quality ...
... whole apparatus for making gas and the mode of its purification seem to be so perfect in well - constructed gas - works , that it is doubtful whether much remains to be done either in simplifying the processes or im- proving the quality ...
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... whole , as that beautiful couplet in Campbell's " Lochiel " ominously crowded on my memory . " ' Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore , And coming events cast their shadows before . " I could not account for the oppressive ...
... whole , as that beautiful couplet in Campbell's " Lochiel " ominously crowded on my memory . " ' Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore , And coming events cast their shadows before . " I could not account for the oppressive ...
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Стр. 3 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Стр. 1 - ... were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff", and separated behind ; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule.
Стр. 518 - I have read of a fair young German gentleman, who, living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his friends' desire, by giving way that after a few days' burial they might send a painter to his vault, and, if they saw cause for it, draw the image of his death unto the life. They did so. and found his face half eaten, and his midriff1 and backbone full of serpents ; and so he stands pictured among his armed ancestors.
Стр. 1 - Miss Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible.
Стр. 130 - There's not a flower on all the hills: the frost is on the pane: I only wish to live till the snowdrops come again: I wish the snow would melt and the sun come out on high: I long to see a flower so before the day I die.
Стр. 2 - ... first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and when I rode a little slower, she passed me and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice, and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges, so I was sure she could not miss it, and I contrived that she should soon come up with me. When she did, I observed her to be in tears.
Стр. 96 - When, packed in one reeking chamber, Man, maid, mother, and little ones lay; While the rain pattered in on the rotting bride-bed, And the walls let in the day. 'When we lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cold clay floor, Till you parted us all for three months, squire, At the dreary workhouse door.