Harry and Lucy: with Other Tales, Band 1Harper & Brothers, 1842 |
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Seite 313 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Seite 62 - Every leaf is of a different form ; every plant hath a separate inhabitant. Look at the thorns that are white with blossoms, and the flowers that cover the fields, and the plants that .are trodden in the green path. The hand of man hath not planted them ; the sower hath not scattered the seeds from his hand, nor the gardener digged a place for them with his spade.. Some grow on steep rocks, where no man can climb ; in shaking bogs and deep forests, and desert islands : they spring up every where,...
Seite 138 - I with a new one : it is so well worth taking a journey for, that if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Seite 392 - ... the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt — was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes — was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings.
Seite 315 - So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber ; and there were present the Picninnies and the Joblillies, and the...
Seite 247 - THERE was an old man, who lived in a wood, As you may plainly see ; He said he could do as much work in a day, As his wife could do in three. With all my heart...
Seite 244 - Magdalena, can scarcely conceive, how without interruption, at every instant of life, you may be tormented by insects flying in the air, and how the multitude of these little animals may render vast regions almost uninhabitable.
Seite 202 - NYMPHS! you erewhile on simmering caldrons play'd, And call'd delighted Savery to your aid ; Bade round the youth explosive Steam aspire, In gathering clouds, and wing'd the wave with fire; Bade with cold streams the quick expansion stop, And sunk the immense of vapour to a drop.
Seite 392 - Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth ; giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite ; commanding manufactures...
Seite 247 - And you must milk the tiny cow, Lest she should go dry ; And you must feed the little pigs That are within the sty. * And you must watch the speckled hen, Lest she should go astray ; Not forgetting the spool of yarn That I spin every day.