Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, Volume 1author; and for sale, 1815 |
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... heads or chapters . It would have been recasting his work altogether , —an undertaking above his strength or patience , and the advantage of which did not appear to him adequate to the labour . There is a certain charm in the journal ...
... heads or chapters . It would have been recasting his work altogether , —an undertaking above his strength or patience , and the advantage of which did not appear to him adequate to the labour . There is a certain charm in the journal ...
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... head seizer asking the Captain whether he preferred having his wine or his spirits seized ; and the Cap- tain seemed to take the proposal in very good part , and told me afterwards the man was very friendly to him . In this general ...
... head seizer asking the Captain whether he preferred having his wine or his spirits seized ; and the Cap- tain seemed to take the proposal in very good part , and told me afterwards the man was very friendly to him . In this general ...
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... head . The cattle do not look different from ours . We meet , however , with more picturesque horses than in America , with big shaggy legs , and heavy heads . January 5. - Arrived in the evening at Bristol , 48 miles in eight hours ...
... head . The cattle do not look different from ours . We meet , however , with more picturesque horses than in America , with big shaggy legs , and heavy heads . January 5. - Arrived in the evening at Bristol , 48 miles in eight hours ...
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... head , or motion of the 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 ...
... head , or motion of the 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 ...
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... head three or four negro giants , striking high , gracefully , and strong , the re- sounding cymbal . About three or four o'clock the fashionable world gives some signs of life , issuing forth to pay visits , or rather leave cards at ...
... head three or four negro giants , striking high , gracefully , and strong , the re- sounding cymbal . About three or four o'clock the fashionable world gives some signs of life , issuing forth to pay visits , or rather leave cards at ...
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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...