The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character, Volume 2W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1832 - Anecdotes |
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... less than seventy tons at a rate of three miles and a quarter per hour , against a strong gale . An unexpected obstacle dashed the hopes of the experimenters ; some one asserted that the surf or wave occasioned by the motion of the ...
... less than seventy tons at a rate of three miles and a quarter per hour , against a strong gale . An unexpected obstacle dashed the hopes of the experimenters ; some one asserted that the surf or wave occasioned by the motion of the ...
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... less than shew it your lordship , particularly as it is quite perfect , and is the only copy known . ' It is a large sum ; however , I must have it . Give me pen , ink , and paper . A draught was drawn for a hundred pounds , in ...
... less than shew it your lordship , particularly as it is quite perfect , and is the only copy known . ' It is a large sum ; however , I must have it . Give me pen , ink , and paper . A draught was drawn for a hundred pounds , in ...
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... less than twenty different kinds of hats , each of which has its own name and form , with some emblem or motto on it - sometimes both . Here are a few examples : No. Name . 1. Odd Fellows . 5. Bellows 7. Helmet . 13 Patent Tea - pot ...
... less than twenty different kinds of hats , each of which has its own name and form , with some emblem or motto on it - sometimes both . Here are a few examples : No. Name . 1. Odd Fellows . 5. Bellows 7. Helmet . 13 Patent Tea - pot ...
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... less feeling of gratitude and affection towards his name . Already had this feeling caused multitudes to pilgrimise through barbarous countries to pay their devotions on the scene of his passion . It needed but an accident to make the ...
... less feeling of gratitude and affection towards his name . Already had this feeling caused multitudes to pilgrimise through barbarous countries to pay their devotions on the scene of his passion . It needed but an accident to make the ...
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... less in conformity with the spirit of our institu- tions , and may be advantageous to the development of our public life ; but it would be dangerous to give too large an extension to this measure . To grant universal suffrage , would be ...
... less in conformity with the spirit of our institu- tions , and may be advantageous to the development of our public life ; but it would be dangerous to give too large an extension to this measure . To grant universal suffrage , would be ...
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Page 284 - A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Page 173 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Page 299 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 219 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Page 234 - God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender! God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender. Who that pretender is, and who that king, God bless us all! is quite another thing.
Page 4 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 469 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die. who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid : as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground ; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Page 266 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Page 485 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 299 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...