The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, 第 21 卷J. Limbird, 1833 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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... five shillings , with which he bought an old fiddle ! Over the strings of this , he kept sawing Scottish tunes for an hour or two after retiring to the cow - house , where the noise could disturb no one but himself . Between this and ...
... five shillings , with which he bought an old fiddle ! Over the strings of this , he kept sawing Scottish tunes for an hour or two after retiring to the cow - house , where the noise could disturb no one but himself . Between this and ...
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... five shillings and fivepence a - quarter ; and , as well as most of the other servants , he had fourpence a - day board - wages . The allow- ance for the boys of the stable was one shilling and eightpence per week each ; and of the ...
... five shillings and fivepence a - quarter ; and , as well as most of the other servants , he had fourpence a - day board - wages . The allow- ance for the boys of the stable was one shilling and eightpence per week each ; and of the ...
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... five running upon it in the summer . The fastest is the Red Rover , which performs the journey under five hours . That called the Age , when driven and horsed by the late Mr. Stevenson , was an object of such admiration at Brighton ...
... five running upon it in the summer . The fastest is the Red Rover , which performs the journey under five hours . That called the Age , when driven and horsed by the late Mr. Stevenson , was an object of such admiration at Brighton ...
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... five minutes under the hour . So much for condition . 66 * From Calais to Paris is the same distance ; the diligence takes at least 48 hours in the summer , and from 50 to 60 in the winter . The Exeter mail is al- lowed 18 hours from ...
... five minutes under the hour . So much for condition . 66 * From Calais to Paris is the same distance ; the diligence takes at least 48 hours in the summer , and from 50 to 60 in the winter . The Exeter mail is al- lowed 18 hours from ...
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... five weeks ; whereas , the latter will stand good for two months , or more . The strength of a wheel depends greatly on the attention paid to the arrangement and framing of the spokes . In common wheels , they are framed regularly and ...
... five weeks ; whereas , the latter will stand good for two months , or more . The strength of a wheel depends greatly on the attention paid to the arrangement and framing of the spokes . In common wheels , they are framed regularly and ...
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第 126 頁 - The people of the State of New York, by the Grace of God, Free and Independent...
第 184 頁 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these when those are pass'd away.
第 224 頁 - •Sir, — I have two silver tea-spoons at London, and two at Bristol : this is all the plate which I have at present ; and I shall not buy any more while so many around me want bread. I am, sir, your most humble servant, JOHN WESLEY/' Perhaps there never was a more charitable man than Mr.
第 249 頁 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moones sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs...
第 204 頁 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
第 139 頁 - And Wordsworth, in a rather long " Excursion " (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version • Of his new system to perplex the sages; ' 'Tis poetry — at least by his assertion.
第 431 頁 - Venus, a pea on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet...
第 280 頁 - It were better for, him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
第 160 頁 - you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world.' 'I don't know how great men you may be,' said the Guinea man, ' but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
第 304 頁 - What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye. Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show — Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow.