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... passed all bis leisure hours at Mr. Porter's , attending his sick - bed , and , in a few months after his death , asked Mrs. Johnson's consent to marry the old widow . After expressing her surprise at a request so extraordinary , " No ...
... passed all bis leisure hours at Mr. Porter's , attending his sick - bed , and , in a few months after his death , asked Mrs. Johnson's consent to marry the old widow . After expressing her surprise at a request so extraordinary , " No ...
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... passed off , and returned , till Duke Edrick called on the minstrel . All then was hushed , as the retiring wave from the distant shore , while the hoary bard sung of deeds of valour and of wisdom , achieved by England's Solon . In the ...
... passed off , and returned , till Duke Edrick called on the minstrel . All then was hushed , as the retiring wave from the distant shore , while the hoary bard sung of deeds of valour and of wisdom , achieved by England's Solon . In the ...
Side 17
... passed their lives in his service , and who would be rendered wretched by his de- parture . If I allowed Madame d'Epinay to defray my expences , Diderot would im- mediately make me feel a fresh obligation , that would fetter me for the ...
... passed their lives in his service , and who would be rendered wretched by his de- parture . If I allowed Madame d'Epinay to defray my expences , Diderot would im- mediately make me feel a fresh obligation , that would fetter me for the ...
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... passed by the Seine and the Oyse . The city is divided into three parts , whereof the Louvre is greatest . The city lies between it and the university , in form of an islaud . Over the Seine is a stately bridge , called Pont Neuf ...
... passed by the Seine and the Oyse . The city is divided into three parts , whereof the Louvre is greatest . The city lies between it and the university , in form of an islaud . Over the Seine is a stately bridge , called Pont Neuf ...
Side 23
... passing every moment over the bridge , is an agreeable diversion to a new spectator . Other bridges also , as that of ... passed this day with one Mr. Wall , an Irish gentleman , who had been a friar in Spain , and afterwards a reader in ...
... passing every moment over the bridge , is an agreeable diversion to a new spectator . Other bridges also , as that of ... passed this day with one Mr. Wall , an Irish gentleman , who had been a friar in Spain , and afterwards a reader in ...
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Side 58 - The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The...
Side 112 - Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature ; they being both servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for nature is the art of God...
Side 233 - Mecklenburg with desolation. I know, Sire, that it seems unbecoming my sex, in this age of vicious refinement, to feel for one's country, to lament the horrors of war, or wish for the return of peace. I know you may think it more properly my province to study the...
Side 178 - There is a mystic thread of life So dearly wreathed with mine alone, That destiny's relentless knife At once must sever both or none. There is a form on which these eyes Have often gazed with fond delight ; By day that form their joy supplies, And dreams restore it through the night. There is...
Side 56 - Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now forty years since I worked like you, at this Press, as a journeyman Printer.
Side 58 - The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...
Side 319 - I returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented itself was an immense folio of a brief, twenty golden guineas wrapped up beside it, and the name of Old Bob Lyons marked upon the back of it. I paid my landlady — bought a good dinner — gave Bob Lyons a share of it — and that dinner was the date of my prosperity.
Side 58 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common...