The Nic-nac: Or, Literary Cabinet, Volum 1T. Wallis, 1823 |
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... horse - way and a foot - way ) , or a cart - way , which , three distinctions of roads were for- merly exclusively understood , men knew what they had to encounter , and accommodated themselves to one another's convenience as well as ...
... horse - way and a foot - way ) , or a cart - way , which , three distinctions of roads were for- merly exclusively understood , men knew what they had to encounter , and accommodated themselves to one another's convenience as well as ...
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... horses ; in the vicinity of the town they missed their way ; they called out to the postillion , but he was stiff upon his horse , and did not hear : the coachman still held the reins , but he had lost his senses and his life . The ...
... horses ; in the vicinity of the town they missed their way ; they called out to the postillion , but he was stiff upon his horse , and did not hear : the coachman still held the reins , but he had lost his senses and his life . The ...
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... horses more than the customary charge ; and , indeed , I could mention a hundred more impositions of a simi- lar complexion which I have quietly suffered . I know not , therefore , how I came to be moved to resistance in the instance I ...
... horses more than the customary charge ; and , indeed , I could mention a hundred more impositions of a simi- lar complexion which I have quietly suffered . I know not , therefore , how I came to be moved to resistance in the instance I ...
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... horse's nose - spiked with steel - dressed up with vizards and buskins - the pave- ment flashed fire - She raised her hand - of that huge lumpish and heavy cast and dashing it on the ground - whispered - ' I know where the shoe pinches ...
... horse's nose - spiked with steel - dressed up with vizards and buskins - the pave- ment flashed fire - She raised her hand - of that huge lumpish and heavy cast and dashing it on the ground - whispered - ' I know where the shoe pinches ...
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... horses , and they incur a penalty , even though there be no chance of an accident , for de- viating from that station . Are they ever in that situation ? Not once out of ten times . As they generally return from market half drunk , they ...
... horses , and they incur a penalty , even though there be no chance of an accident , for de- viating from that station . Are they ever in that situation ? Not once out of ten times . As they generally return from market half drunk , they ...
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Side 387 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Side 104 - 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 308 - Network: anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances with interstices between the intersections.
Side 307 - 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 371 - One day a great feast was held, and after dinner the representation of Solomon, his temple, and the coming of the queen of Sheba, was made, or, as I may better say, was meant to have been made before their majesties, by device of the earl of Salisbury and others.
Side 48 - 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 371 - Queen which had been bestowed on his garments, such as wine, cream, jelly, beverage, cakes, spices and other good matters. The entertainment and show went forward, and most of the presenters went backward, or fell down, wine did so occupy their upper chambers. Now did appear, in rich dress, Hope...
Side 365 - When a negro is so fortunate as to find a diamond of the weight of an octavo (17^ carats), much ceremony takes place; he is crowned with a wreath of flowers and carried in procession to the administrator, who gives him his freedom, by paying his owner for it.
Side 279 - ... the different places they had been accustomed to visit ; such as the Bay, the Old Head or Man, the Windmill, &c. at Boulogne ; St. Vallery, and other places on the coast of Picardy ; which they afterwards confirmed, when they viewed them through their telescopes.
Side 171 - The after-part of the day is chiefly spent in dancing round a tall pole, which is called a May-pole ; which, being placed in a convenient part of the village, stands there, as it were, consecrated to the goddess of flowers, without the least violation offered it in the whole circle of the year.