Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, Band 9W. Orr, 1841 |
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... occasion . Nor could we ever join in the laugh raised at jokes of this kind , though we have been often called upon to do so . On such occasions we have thought only of the state of the feelings of persons thus wantonly and maliciously ...
... occasion . Nor could we ever join in the laugh raised at jokes of this kind , though we have been often called upon to do so . On such occasions we have thought only of the state of the feelings of persons thus wantonly and maliciously ...
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... occasion , you would which is here condemned is often committed from seem to indicate that the loss was of importance to mere good nature and a desire to be affable . Sir your entertainer - an extremely poor compliment . Joshua Reynolds ...
... occasion , you would which is here condemned is often committed from seem to indicate that the loss was of importance to mere good nature and a desire to be affable . Sir your entertainer - an extremely poor compliment . Joshua Reynolds ...
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... occasion . The sum re- quired from the government or the departments which may send young offenders from their prisons to the colony , is sixty centimes ( sixpence ) per day , which would , supposing that there are to be 300 colonists ...
... occasion . The sum re- quired from the government or the departments which may send young offenders from their prisons to the colony , is sixty centimes ( sixpence ) per day , which would , supposing that there are to be 300 colonists ...
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... occasion to notice books of which they would be obliged in conscience to speak unfavourably , but only such as they think possessed of sufficient value , or written with sufficient talent , to be entitled to commendation . The reader ...
... occasion to notice books of which they would be obliged in conscience to speak unfavourably , but only such as they think possessed of sufficient value , or written with sufficient talent , to be entitled to commendation . The reader ...
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... occasion to use to John Macdonell , perhaps the ablest of their number , and one to whose judgment they usually deferred in all important matters . It will amuse the reader to learn that Mr Forbes , with true Jacobite feeling , adopted ...
... occasion to use to John Macdonell , perhaps the ablest of their number , and one to whose judgment they usually deferred in all important matters . It will amuse the reader to learn that Mr Forbes , with true Jacobite feeling , adopted ...
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Seite 149 - I have seen a small manufactory of this kind, where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could,, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day.
Seite 72 - ... the print of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell ; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Seite 33 - They will not live together, but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus. Flies get entry into your mouth, into your eyes, into your nose ; you eat flies, drink flies, and breathe flies. Lizards, cockroaches, and snakes, get into the bed ; ants eat up the books ; scorpions sting you on the foot.
Seite 50 - For when to future years thou extend'st thy cares, Thou deal'st in other men's affairs. Ev'n aged men, as if they truly were Children again, for age prepare ; Provisions for long travel they design, In the last point of their short line. Wisely the ant against poor winter hoards The stock which summer's wealth affords; In grasshoppers...
Seite 34 - When I upon thy bosom lean And fondly clasp thee a' my ain, I glory in the sacred ties That made us ane, wha ance were twain: A mutual flame inspires us baith, The tender look, the melting kiss: Even years shall ne'er destroy our love, But only gie us change o
Seite 24 - like the baseless fabric of a vision, and left not a wreck behind ;" so thoroughly had nine-tenths of them taken up their abode in the bread basket (vide Jon Bee) of the Man-Mountain ; the remaining tenth sufficed for the rest of the company, viz.
Seite 123 - Some blamed, others praised him for his courage. The king said he had put off this excursion for more than five years, because he was aware that it would be attended with infinite trouble, and told the prince that he ought to have had but two tables, and not have been at the expense of so many, and declared he would never VOL. XIX. i L suffer him to do so again ; but all this was too late for poor Vatel.
Seite 78 - I was forced instead thereof to apply a digestive made of the yolks of eggs, oil of roses, and turpentine. In the night I could not sleep in quiet, fearing some default in not...
Seite 72 - And then they likewise shall Their ruin have, For as yourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave. Thus those celestial fires, Though seeming mute, The fallacy of our desires And all the pride of life confute. For they have watched since first The world had birth; And found sin in itself accurst, And nothing permanent on earth.
Seite 79 - Dublin for a crime of the same stamp, and there condemned and executed. Between his conviction and execution, and again at the fatal tree, he confessed himself to be the very Thomas Geddely who had committed the robbery at York for which the unfortunate James Crow had been executed. We must add, that a gentleman, an inhabitant of York, happening to be in Dublin at the time of Geddely's...