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... REMARKABLE DAYS . FIRST of January , 1801. - Union of England and Ireland , which have been disunited ever since . New Year's Day in China is remarkable for the Feast of Lanthorns , when it is lucky to walk home from the temple with a ...
... REMARKABLE DAYS . FIRST of January , 1801. - Union of England and Ireland , which have been disunited ever since . New Year's Day in China is remarkable for the Feast of Lanthorns , when it is lucky to walk home from the temple with a ...
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... REMARKABLE DAY . The 14th of April will always be re- markable as the day when the Commons repealed the Window Tax ; though the House did not take this pleasing duty upon itself without putting a less pleas- ing duty upon all other ...
... REMARKABLE DAY . The 14th of April will always be re- markable as the day when the Commons repealed the Window Tax ; though the House did not take this pleasing duty upon itself without putting a less pleas- ing duty upon all other ...
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... REMARKABLE DAYS . May the First is still the holiday of the sweeps ; although we know of no sweeps in these days but the Derby Sweeps , which belong to a very dirty business . June has no remarkable day , but the 28th , which may be ...
... REMARKABLE DAYS . May the First is still the holiday of the sweeps ; although we know of no sweeps in these days but the Derby Sweeps , which belong to a very dirty business . June has no remarkable day , but the 28th , which may be ...
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... REMARKABLE FEATURE . - That essential ornament of the human countenance , the nose , is as often found Grecian or aqui- line among Governesses as among other young ladics . This is singular , consider- ing how very generally Governesses ...
... REMARKABLE FEATURE . - That essential ornament of the human countenance , the nose , is as often found Grecian or aqui- line among Governesses as among other young ladics . This is singular , consider- ing how very generally Governesses ...
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... remarkable only from the circumstance that the young actors , with all their scholarship , could not possibly translate it to their sisters , insomuch that the virtuous LORD CHAMBERLAIN would , probably , refuse to allow such a piece to ...
... remarkable only from the circumstance that the young actors , with all their scholarship , could not possibly translate it to their sisters , insomuch that the virtuous LORD CHAMBERLAIN would , probably , refuse to allow such a piece to ...
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Page 198 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow...
Page 93 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 34 - Purchase one not over big ; Coarse ones are not worth a fig ; So a young one buy. See that he is scalded well (That is done by those who sell), Therefore on that point to dwell Were absurdity. Sage and bread, mix just enough, Salt and pepper quantum suff., And the pig's interior stuff, With the whole combined.