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Side 17
... thought your honor would like to take some little refreshment . " “ But , friend , " added Sir Joseph , " what occasion was there to give the good dame so much trouble ? Brown bread would have supplied the place of white , and a draft ...
... thought your honor would like to take some little refreshment . " “ But , friend , " added Sir Joseph , " what occasion was there to give the good dame so much trouble ? Brown bread would have supplied the place of white , and a draft ...
Side 18
... thought expedient , and all their calculations are deranged . If the roads were to be surveyed four times a year , the returns could not be every where accurate . This , however , is no where a reproach , for all alterations of this ...
... thought expedient , and all their calculations are deranged . If the roads were to be surveyed four times a year , the returns could not be every where accurate . This , however , is no where a reproach , for all alterations of this ...
Side 27
... thought sufficient ) . Ad- vertisements were issued , and contract made to erect a CHURCH THERE . It was finished , but no steeple to it.- The contractor maintained he only engaged to build a church , -he en gaged for no steeple , and ...
... thought sufficient ) . Ad- vertisements were issued , and contract made to erect a CHURCH THERE . It was finished , but no steeple to it.- The contractor maintained he only engaged to build a church , -he en gaged for no steeple , and ...
Side 39
... thought that the rab- bits understood Latin ? " SCOTCH BULL . - In the account of the landing of the King at Leith , as published in The Morning Chronicle 1822 , was the following passage : - " When the King set his foot upon the land ...
... thought that the rab- bits understood Latin ? " SCOTCH BULL . - In the account of the landing of the King at Leith , as published in The Morning Chronicle 1822 , was the following passage : - " When the King set his foot upon the land ...
Side 41
... thoughts of marrying the young Queen of Naples , and sent three ambassadors , with curious and exquisite instructions for taking a sur- vey of her person , complexion , & c . " These instructions were printed about sixty years ago , by ...
... thoughts of marrying the young Queen of Naples , and sent three ambassadors , with curious and exquisite instructions for taking a sur- vey of her person , complexion , & c . " These instructions were printed about sixty years ago , by ...
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Side 305 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Side 102 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Side 305 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Side 168 - Nay ! not so much as out of bed ? When all the birds have matins said And sung their thankful hymns, 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in, Whenas a thousand virgins on this day Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
Side 40 - Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed You can send a boy to college but you can't make him think.
Side 200 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone, And their revenge is as the tiger's spring, Deadly, and quick, and crushing ; yet, as real Torture is theirs, what they inflict they feel.
Side 159 - There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without great...
Side 288 - May numerous herds and flocks be seen . And lasses chanting o'er the pail, And shepherds piping in the dale ; And ancient faith that knows no guile, And industry...
Side 197 - The village maid steals through the shade, Her shepherd's suit to hear; To beauty shy, by lattice high, Sings high-born Cavalier. The star of Love, all stars above, Now reigns o'er earth and sky; And high and low the influence know — But where is County Guy?
Side 202 - ... was over, remounted" their old stations in Guildhall — till by reason of their very great age, old Time, with the help of a number of city rats and mice, had eaten up all their entrails. The dissolution of the two old, weak, and feeble giants, gave birth to the two present substantial, and majestic giants ; who, by order, and at the city charge, were formed and fashioned. Captain Richard Saunders," an eminent carver in King Street...