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... hands , when they are full , you drop what you have already , in endeavouring to get more . The Journal was written in English , because the things and persons the traveller saw were best described in the language of the country , VOL ...
... hands , when they are full , you drop what you have already , in endeavouring to get more . The Journal was written in English , because the things and persons the traveller saw were best described in the language of the country , VOL ...
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... hand . Should we know little before the interruption , we are apt indeed to forget that little ; but , if the skill was sufficiently perfect , it increases during a certain period of inaction ; becomes stationary when longer intermitted ...
... hand . Should we know little before the interruption , we are apt indeed to forget that little ; but , if the skill was sufficiently perfect , it increases during a certain period of inaction ; becomes stationary when longer intermitted ...
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... hand , is thought suffi- cient . Foot - passengers walk on with ease and security along the smooth flag - stones of the side pavement . Their eyes , mine at least , are irre- sistibly attracted by the allurements of the shops ...
... hand , is thought suffi- cient . Foot - passengers walk on with ease and security along the smooth flag - stones of the side pavement . Their eyes , mine at least , are irre- sistibly attracted by the allurements of the shops ...
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... hand , I have observed dwarf horses passing swiftly along the streets , mounted by boys , who appeared employed in carrying letters or messages . No armed watch , guet , or marechaussée , is ever met patroling the streets , or the ...
... hand , I have observed dwarf horses passing swiftly along the streets , mounted by boys , who appeared employed in carrying letters or messages . No armed watch , guet , or marechaussée , is ever met patroling the streets , or the ...
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... hand historical . He seems as if he had surprised nature in action , and characteristic action , and had fixed it on his canvas at one stroke , with perfect resemblance , but a resemblance which moves and thinks . It is impossible to ...
... hand historical . He seems as if he had surprised nature in action , and characteristic action , and had fixed it on his canvas at one stroke , with perfect resemblance , but a resemblance which moves and thinks . It is impossible to ...
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Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1 Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1817 |
Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1 Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1817 |
Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain, during ... 1810 and 1811 ... Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1815 |
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Página 135 - Hell is murky! — Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? — What, will these hands ne'er be clean ? — No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Página 362 - ... know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be!
Página 362 - Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Página 134 - tis not done: the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.
Página 222 - Money as they shall think fit) a convenient Stock of Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron, and other necessary Ware and Stuff, to set the Poor on Work: And also competent Sums of Money for and towards the necessary Relief of the Lame, Impotent, Old, Blind, and such other among them being Poor, and not able to work, and...
Página 133 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Página 25 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Página 133 - I have given suck; and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn, as you Have done to this.
Página 319 - Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare. xv. From the steep promontory gazed The stranger, raptured and amazed, And,
Página iv - Longworth, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: " The Trust, a comedy, in five acts, by Charles Breck," in conformity to the act of the congress of the United States...