The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Том 21J. 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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... nearly all cases , with an eye to the improvement of the reader , and the addition of some new views or facts to his storehouse of knowledge . * To this hasty sketch of the most prominent contents of the present volume , we have to add ...
... nearly all cases , with an eye to the improvement of the reader , and the addition of some new views or facts to his storehouse of knowledge . * To this hasty sketch of the most prominent contents of the present volume , we have to add ...
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... nearly an inch long . Thus terminated my education . After this , I was never another day at any school whatever ; in all , I had spent about half a year at it . It is true my former master denied me , and when I was only twenty years ...
... nearly an inch long . Thus terminated my education . After this , I was never another day at any school whatever ; in all , I had spent about half a year at it . It is true my former master denied me , and when I was only twenty years ...
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... nearly a horse to every mile of ground it runs -reckoning one way , or one side of the ground . " + Proprietors of coaches have at length found out - though they were a long time before they did discover it , that the hay and corn ...
... nearly a horse to every mile of ground it runs -reckoning one way , or one side of the ground . " + Proprietors of coaches have at length found out - though they were a long time before they did discover it , that the hay and corn ...
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... nearly 1607. to each proprietor for the expenses of his twenty horses , being 27 . per week , per horse . Thus it ... nearly even with the draught of the horse as we can make it . † Thus it is with a farmer's wagon . When the shaft ...
... nearly 1607. to each proprietor for the expenses of his twenty horses , being 27 . per week , per horse . Thus it ... nearly even with the draught of the horse as we can make it . † Thus it is with a farmer's wagon . When the shaft ...
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... nearly as numerous ; mak- ing an aggregate of upwards of fifteen hun- dred generals and field - officers actually receiv- ing pay from the British government . If Alexander , Hannibal , Cæsar , or Gusta- vus Adolphus , were to revisit ...
... nearly as numerous ; mak- ing an aggregate of upwards of fifteen hun- dred generals and field - officers actually receiv- ing pay from the British government . If Alexander , Hannibal , Cæsar , or Gusta- vus Adolphus , were to revisit ...
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