Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Том 17 |
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... silver , tallow candles were to be substituted for wax , and their servants were to be reduced in number . None of these attendants , however , were to enter their apartments ; and their meals were to be introduced to them by means of a ...
... silver , tallow candles were to be substituted for wax , and their servants were to be reduced in number . None of these attendants , however , were to enter their apartments ; and their meals were to be introduced to them by means of a ...
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... silver and gold , Or all that this earth can afford . But the sound of the church - going bell These valleys and rocks never heard , Never sighed at the sound of a knell , Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared . Ye winds , that have made me ...
... silver and gold , Or all that this earth can afford . But the sound of the church - going bell These valleys and rocks never heard , Never sighed at the sound of a knell , Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared . Ye winds , that have made me ...
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... silver , wearing apparel , as well linen and woollen , and all other my effects whatsoever , as well debt outstanding either by bond , bill , book , account , or otherwise , as any other thing whatsoever which shall be due , owing ...
... silver , wearing apparel , as well linen and woollen , and all other my effects whatsoever , as well debt outstanding either by bond , bill , book , account , or otherwise , as any other thing whatsoever which shall be due , owing ...
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... silver spoon ! Now I am used by the servants alone ; but if I were a silver spoon , it might happen that the king himself should eat rice- milk with me out of a golden dish ; whereas , being only a wooden spoon , it is nothing but meal ...
... silver spoon ! Now I am used by the servants alone ; but if I were a silver spoon , it might happen that the king himself should eat rice- milk with me out of a golden dish ; whereas , being only a wooden spoon , it is nothing but meal ...
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... silver spoon . " So the goldsmith bored deep into her heart , and filled it up with melted lead , which soon hardened within it . But she suffered all for honour's sake . Then she was silvered over again , and brought back to the plate ...
... silver spoon . " So the goldsmith bored deep into her heart , and filled it up with melted lead , which soon hardened within it . But she suffered all for honour's sake . Then she was silvered over again , and brought back to the plate ...
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Страница 6 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission...
Страница 10 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
Страница 29 - ... all around him, and gave the most liberal assistance and encouragement to all young persons who showed any indications of talent, or applied to him for patronage or advice. His health, which was delicate from his youth upwards, seemed to become firmer as he advanced in years : and he preserved, up almost to the last moment of his existence, not only the full command of his extraordinary intellect, but all the alacrity of spirit, and the social gaiety which had illuminated his happiest days.
Страница 6 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Страница 28 - No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream, So smoothly, silently — by many a dome Mosque-like, and many a stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky ; By many a pile in more than eastern splendour, Of old the residence of merchant kings...
Страница 29 - ... his happiest days. His friends in this part of the country never saw him more full of intellectual vigour and colloquial animation, never more delightful or more instructive, than in his last visit to Scotland in autumn, 1817. Indeed, it was after that time that he applied himself, with all the ardour of early life, to the invention of a machine for mechanically copying all sorts of sculpture and statuary, and distributed among his friends some of its earliest performances, as the productions...
Страница 24 - At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot his language, for want of use, that we could scarce understand him, for he seemed to speak his words by halves.