The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the Stuarts, Beginning with the Seventeenth Century, Volume 2William H. Colyer, 1844 - Great Britain |
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... brought into life at fourteen or fifteen , and introduced into society , to begin the serious business of life , which meant nothing more than to show off all those attractions alluded to by the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montague ...
... brought into life at fourteen or fifteen , and introduced into society , to begin the serious business of life , which meant nothing more than to show off all those attractions alluded to by the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montague ...
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... brought from China by the mercantile Dutch , 1691 , they were not generally known until about 1728. It appears they will live sixty years , and have been found to thrive and breed fast in the warm water tanks and reservoirs connected ...
... brought from China by the mercantile Dutch , 1691 , they were not generally known until about 1728. It appears they will live sixty years , and have been found to thrive and breed fast in the warm water tanks and reservoirs connected ...
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... brought into the parlour , saying , " sure enough , and I cannot tell ; but perhaps , sir , you can . But bulls or blunders , on this subject , seem not peculiar to these descendants of the Sabians . A Hindoo military officer wishing to ...
... brought into the parlour , saying , " sure enough , and I cannot tell ; but perhaps , sir , you can . But bulls or blunders , on this subject , seem not peculiar to these descendants of the Sabians . A Hindoo military officer wishing to ...
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... brought into use so that the everlasting term pair , this pairing of everything ( except in the breeding season , ) sounds so rude , uninstructive , and unmusical , upon the ' ears of a sportsman , that he would as soon be doomed to sit ...
... brought into use so that the everlasting term pair , this pairing of everything ( except in the breeding season , ) sounds so rude , uninstructive , and unmusical , upon the ' ears of a sportsman , that he would as soon be doomed to sit ...
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... few years past . A pack of dogs is kept at Montreal , having been brought by an English butcher . " Spirit of the Times , N. Y , 1841 . " A firm Virgil has left us a good description 70 THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN .
... few years past . A pack of dogs is kept at Montreal , having been brought by an English butcher . " Spirit of the Times , N. Y , 1841 . " A firm Virgil has left us a good description 70 THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN .
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Page 284 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 254 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 116 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 99 - And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Page 78 - An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as when it stands.
Page 105 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 115 - How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! now dying all away, Now pealing loud again and louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on.
Page 9 - Then being asked where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say within thine own deep-sunken eyes Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer "This fair child of mine Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,' Proving his beauty by succession thine!
Page 319 - Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend ; This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 318 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.