The Illustrated London Reading BookPrinted and published at the office of The Illustrated London News, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... frequently overflows its banks , and brings so much peril and calamity to the people , that it has been called " China's Sorrow ; " and the European trade at Canton has been very heavily taxed for the damage occasioned by it . The Grand ...
... frequently overflows its banks , and brings so much peril and calamity to the people , that it has been called " China's Sorrow ; " and the European trade at Canton has been very heavily taxed for the damage occasioned by it . The Grand ...
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... frequently rectify an incorrect statement of the situation of a regiment , or write down whence two hundred conscripts were to be ob- tained , and from what magazine their shoes were to be taken . A patient , and an easy interlocutor ...
... frequently rectify an incorrect statement of the situation of a regiment , or write down whence two hundred conscripts were to be ob- tained , and from what magazine their shoes were to be taken . A patient , and an easy interlocutor ...
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... frequently behoved him not merely to gain a battle , but to gain it in such a manner as to astound Europe and to produce gigantic results . Thus political views were incessantly interfering with the strategic genius ; and to appreciate ...
... frequently behoved him not merely to gain a battle , but to gain it in such a manner as to astound Europe and to produce gigantic results . Thus political views were incessantly interfering with the strategic genius ; and to appreciate ...
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... frequently from twelve to fifteen feet in length . In some species the foliage is of a dark green and shining surface , like that of a www THEAVISIDE PALMS OF ARIMA1HEA . laurel or holly ; in others , silvery on the under - side , as in ...
... frequently from twelve to fifteen feet in length . In some species the foliage is of a dark green and shining surface , like that of a www THEAVISIDE PALMS OF ARIMA1HEA . laurel or holly ; in others , silvery on the under - side , as in ...
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... frequently hung in brilliant daylight , and , if possible , placed in the warm sunshine , which , especially when bathing , is very agreeable to them . The more simple and true to nature the food is , the better does it agree with them ...
... frequently hung in brilliant daylight , and , if possible , placed in the warm sunshine , which , especially when bathing , is very agreeable to them . The more simple and true to nature the food is , the better does it agree with them ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 145 - Now strike the golden lyre again : A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Página 205 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Página 186 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 186 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Página 190 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Página 172 - By the festal cities' blaze, Whilst the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore...
Página 109 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Página 228 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Página 186 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy...
Página 203 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...