Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Томове 17–18William Chambers, Robert Chambers Lippincott, 1871 |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 92.
Страница 1
... father was the proprietor and farmer of a small estate in Aberdeenshire ; but taking part in the insurrection headed ... father's death . Left almost destitute by that event , he was taken care of by relations till he grew No. 129 . up ...
... father was the proprietor and farmer of a small estate in Aberdeenshire ; but taking part in the insurrection headed ... father's death . Left almost destitute by that event , he was taken care of by relations till he grew No. 129 . up ...
Страница 2
... father's mathematical talent , and followed his profession , first at Ayr , and afterwards in Glasgow , where he ... father of the great engineer , had settled in his native town of Greenock , exercising his abilities , not in the ...
... father's mathematical talent , and followed his profession , first at Ayr , and afterwards in Glasgow , where he ... father of the great engineer , had settled in his native town of Greenock , exercising his abilities , not in the ...
Страница 3
... father writing and arithmetic ; and in his confinement to the house , of which his almost constant indisposition was the cause , he acquired those habits of inquisitiveness and precocious reflection so often observed in feeble - bodied ...
... father writing and arithmetic ; and in his confinement to the house , of which his almost constant indisposition was the cause , he acquired those habits of inquisitiveness and precocious reflection so often observed in feeble - bodied ...
Страница 4
... father's trade in Greenock , the profession which Watt chose was that of a mathematical and nautical instrument maker . To learn this art , or rather to perfect himself in it , he went to London in 1755 , and placed himself under Mr ...
... father's trade in Greenock , the profession which Watt chose was that of a mathematical and nautical instrument maker . To learn this art , or rather to perfect himself in it , he went to London in 1755 , and placed himself under Mr ...
Страница 27
... father - in - law , Mr Macgregor , being the first to apply it on a large scale . Another subject in which Mr Watt took much interest was the administration of the various gases for medical purposes . In short , besides his distinction ...
... father - in - law , Mr Macgregor , being the first to apply it on a large scale . Another subject in which Mr Watt took much interest was the administration of the various gases for medical purposes . In short , besides his distinction ...
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
accused afterwards Alexander Selkirk Anahuac Anders Annette appeared arrived artist Bastille Beatrice beautiful became began Bengal British brother brought called Captain child Cinque Ports colony Company Correggio Cortes Cotton Mather court cylinder dauphin dear death door Dupleix East Engelhart England English eyes father felt French garden girl governor hand heart Hjalmar honour horse hundred India island king labour lived London look Lord Louis Louis XVI Marie Antoinette Marietta ment Mexicans miles Montezuma mother native never night Norrland officers painted painter palace party passed persons picture piston poor prince prisoner queen replied returned river royal Selkirk shewed soon Spaniards Stanilaus steam Street subahdar thee thou thought Tintoretto tion Titian took Tower vessel Villa Rica Watt whole witch witchcraft woman wooden spoon young
Популярни откъси
Страница 12 - But, alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But, the seafowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair ; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot.
Страница 11 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Страница 26 - Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I ; Freely welcome to my cup, Couldst thou sip and sip it up. Make the most of life you may ; Life is short, and wears away. " Both alike are mine and thine, Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine's a summer, mine no more, Though repeated to threescore ; Threescore summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one.
Страница 6 - TO THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET LEIGH HUNT Green little' vaulter in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June — Sole voice that's heard amidst the lazy noon When even the bees lag at the summoning brass; And you, warm little housekeeper, who class With those who think the candles come too soon, Loving the fire, and with your tricksome tune Nick the glad silent moments as they pass; O sweet and tiny cousins, that belong, One to the fields, the other to the hearth...
Страница 13 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring...
Страница 5 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Страница 18 - CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And, where the flowers of Paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy! —Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept. And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! 1 Mrs.
Страница 1 - Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : —
Страница 31 - 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 24 - Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches.