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The cries and sights who beld that the value of buttermilk would never of London
are chiefly occupied in providing for be known until it was sold for a crown a quart
. If the pleasures of the table ; and the festival among that worthy dispenser of ...
The cries and sights who beld that the value of buttermilk would never of London
are chiefly occupied in providing for be known until it was sold for a crown a quart
. If the pleasures of the table ; and the festival among that worthy dispenser of ...
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An ordinary calculation easily known , in saying that one half of the makes
something like two hundred thousand young frequenters of gin shops in the
lower districts of firs for the consumption in Christmas trees by the London belong
to the ...
An ordinary calculation easily known , in saying that one half of the makes
something like two hundred thousand young frequenters of gin shops in the
lower districts of firs for the consumption in Christmas trees by the London belong
to the ...
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or obtained baronetcies , for their public services . colm ; who had moreover ten
sons and seven Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm was better known daughters , and
they all grew up to man and wo - in Britain than his brethren ; but , perhaps .
or obtained baronetcies , for their public services . colm ; who had moreover ten
sons and seven Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm was better known daughters , and
they all grew up to man and wo - in Britain than his brethren ; but , perhaps .
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It is a strange compound in its ray . are men well known each to a circle in
London , It is made up of a listlessness , not without a dash but who may be said
to have lost caste that is of fatalism in it , and a selfishness that sinks every to say
...
It is a strange compound in its ray . are men well known each to a circle in
London , It is made up of a listlessness , not without a dash but who may be said
to have lost caste that is of fatalism in it , and a selfishness that sinks every to say
...
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... struggle against his own others missed - either from the frosts in May , or sin
and its temptations , without meeting green fields the worms in June , or some
other cause , not so in the waste , and where fields are green there are casily
known .
... struggle against his own others missed - either from the frosts in May , or sin
and its temptations , without meeting green fields the worms in June , or some
other cause , not so in the waste , and where fields are green there are casily
known .
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Page 99 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 141 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 335 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps...
Page 99 - And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 459 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Page 273 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
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Page 427 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...
Page 20 - It is the same ! — for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free ; Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow ; Nought may endure but Mutability.