Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &cR. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Company and Walker & Company ... and Simpkin & Marshall, 1819 |
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... present with females , I am not informed : it is not an article of trade in which I have been accustomed to deal , nor am I able exactly to set a price up- on the ladies of my country , so as to be able to form a judgment ; but really ...
... present with females , I am not informed : it is not an article of trade in which I have been accustomed to deal , nor am I able exactly to set a price up- on the ladies of my country , so as to be able to form a judgment ; but really ...
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... present article , represents one by the application of Mr. Acker- of the most elegant , and , at the mann's Patent Moveable Axles , is same time , one of the safest vehi - likely to bring them again into fa- cles of the kind ever ...
... present article , represents one by the application of Mr. Acker- of the most elegant , and , at the mann's Patent Moveable Axles , is same time , one of the safest vehi - likely to bring them again into fa- cles of the kind ever ...
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... present our read- || and is saturated with carbonic acid , ers with a specimen of the litho- graphic art , which will be found particularly useful to ladies in painting and ornamenting work- boxes , cabinets , & c . At the same time ...
... present our read- || and is saturated with carbonic acid , ers with a specimen of the litho- graphic art , which will be found particularly useful to ladies in painting and ornamenting work- boxes , cabinets , & c . At the same time ...
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... present . Sir James . And why ? Is not the country at this moment in its fullest verdure ? and , above all , do not the fineness of the wea- ther , and the earliness of the sea- son , invite us not to lose a moment in enjoying its ...
... present . Sir James . And why ? Is not the country at this moment in its fullest verdure ? and , above all , do not the fineness of the wea- ther , and the earliness of the sea- son , invite us not to lose a moment in enjoying its ...
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... present day , after having amused the fancies and quickened the spirits of high - flown sentimental misses and lovelorn elder maidens , must die away in their own evaporating essence ; Dryden , I say , who knew human nature perhaps as ...
... present day , after having amused the fancies and quickened the spirits of high - flown sentimental misses and lovelorn elder maidens , must die away in their own evaporating essence ; Dryden , I say , who knew human nature perhaps as ...
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Seite 88 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Seite 223 - It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned ; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter ; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations.
Seite 203 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Seite 195 - So like an arrow swift he flew Shot by an archer strong, So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
Seite 195 - His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more.
Seite 222 - The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal...
Seite 222 - By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.
Seite 222 - But these are poor and narrow views of its importance. It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity.
Seite 237 - M'Namara, the gentleman who was sent to him, who has a natural eloquence, and an excellent understanding, urged the most cogent reasons, and used all the arts of persuasion, to induce him to part with his mistress, and even proceeded so far as to assure him, according to his instructions...
Seite 236 - When he (Charles Edward) was in Scotland, he had a mistress whose name was Walkinshaw, and whose sister was at that time, and is still, housekeeper at Leicester House. Some years after he was released from his prison, and conducted out of France, he sent for this girl, who soon acquired such a dominion over him, that she was acquainted with all his schemes, and trusted with his most secret correspondence. As soon as this was known in England, all those persons of distinction who were attached to...