The Ladies' Museum, Volumes 1-2James Robins and Company, 1830 - English fiction |
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... colours would not stand , and the first time that the handker- chief was dipped in water , this rich article , an imitation of those from India , appeared no better than a coarse shaving cloth . They endeavoured to oblige the vender to ...
... colours would not stand , and the first time that the handker- chief was dipped in water , this rich article , an imitation of those from India , appeared no better than a coarse shaving cloth . They endeavoured to oblige the vender to ...
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... colour was for- gotten , had awakened in his heart the most faithful and tender affection . The Queen Betsy , however , departed for her kingdom as soon as she had received the permission of her own sovereign ; while Forval was totally ...
... colour was for- gotten , had awakened in his heart the most faithful and tender affection . The Queen Betsy , however , departed for her kingdom as soon as she had received the permission of her own sovereign ; while Forval was totally ...
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... colours . Well do I remember my excellent grandmother holding this language above forty years since , when she entered a room in which sate three fine girls , ( the eldest hope of her youngest daughter , ) and two visitants , to whom ...
... colours . Well do I remember my excellent grandmother holding this language above forty years since , when she entered a room in which sate three fine girls , ( the eldest hope of her youngest daughter , ) and two visitants , to whom ...
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... colour of the marshmallow blossom , fastening down the front by straps with a gold square buckle . The body made ... coloured riband . GENERAL MONTHLY STATEMENT OF FASHION . Expense and variety promise to be the distinguishing marks of ...
... colour of the marshmallow blossom , fastening down the front by straps with a gold square buckle . The body made ... coloured riband . GENERAL MONTHLY STATEMENT OF FASHION . Expense and variety promise to be the distinguishing marks of ...
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... coloured gauze , sprigged with gold or silver , or with gold stripes interwoven among the gauze ; these turbans are sometimes ornamented with half - wreaths of pearl - foliage , with heron's feathers , aigrettes , or devoid of any ...
... coloured gauze , sprigged with gold or silver , or with gold stripes interwoven among the gauze ; these turbans are sometimes ornamented with half - wreaths of pearl - foliage , with heron's feathers , aigrettes , or devoid of any ...
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Page 62 - ... we cooked up a resolution, somewhat modernizing their phrases, for appointing the first day of June, on which the Port bill was to commence, for a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, to implore heaven to avert from us the evils of civil war, to inspire us with firmness in support of our rights, and to turn the hearts of the King and Parliament to moderation and justice.
Page 17 - He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 67 - But you are, perhaps, curious to know how this new scene has struck a savage of the mountains of America. Not advantageously, I assure you. I find the general fate of humanity here, most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation, offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil.
Page 110 - Yesterday, a very pretty letter from Annabella, which I answered. What an odd situation and friendship is ours! — without one spark of love on either side, and produced by circumstances which in general lead to coldness on one side, and aversion on the other. She is a very superior woman, and very little spoiled, which is strange in an heiress — a girl of twenty — a peeress that is to be, in her own right — an only child, and a savante, who has always had her own way. She is a poetess —...
Page 64 - I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point, which was to decide the question. They laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves.
Page 68 - Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance. Establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils, and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles, who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Page 298 - With which the King was greatly offended, and said that then he should be under the law, which was treason to affirm, as he said; to which I said that Bracton saith, quod Rex non debet esse sub homine sed sub Deo et lege [that the King ought not to be under man but under God and under the law—BT\.
Page 5 - God would forgive me, and cast away my sins from me, and that he would receive me into everlasting life. So I take my leave of you all, making my peace with God.
Page 298 - Judges: to which it was answered by me, that true it was, that God had endowed his Majesty with excellent science, and great endowments of nature; but His Majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England, and causes which concern the life, or inheritance, or goods, or fortunes of his subjects, are not to be decided by natural reason but by the artificial reason and judgment of law, which law is an act which requires long study and experience, before that a man can attain to the cognizance...
Page 298 - Then the king said, that he thought the law was founded upon reason, and that he and others had reason as well as the judges. To which it was answered by me, that true it was that God had endowed his majesty with excellent science and great endowments of nature ; but his majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England. And causes which concern the life or inheritance, or goods or...