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... horsemen , among whom were not only the wedding guests , but the new made bride- groom himself , as well as your humble servant , might have been seen cantering rapidly across the nuzzah , that might have been heard for miles over.
... horsemen , among whom were not only the wedding guests , but the new made bride- groom himself , as well as your humble servant , might have been seen cantering rapidly across the nuzzah , that might have been heard for miles over.
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... seen the Smithfield Cattle Show ? If not , you must either be a very busy man , or you have not the true English taste for Christmas fare . You have missed a great opportunity ; for a right royal exhibition it was this year , and must ...
... seen the Smithfield Cattle Show ? If not , you must either be a very busy man , or you have not the true English taste for Christmas fare . You have missed a great opportunity ; for a right royal exhibition it was this year , and must ...
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... seen amongst the cattle and swine . The ages put upon some of the latter were almost apocryphal . One fellow of fourteen months old , belonging to Prince Albert , was estimated to weigh 60 stone ( 8 lbs . to the stone ) . They surely ...
... seen amongst the cattle and swine . The ages put upon some of the latter were almost apocryphal . One fellow of fourteen months old , belonging to Prince Albert , was estimated to weigh 60 stone ( 8 lbs . to the stone ) . They surely ...
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... seen better days , as could easily be gleaned from their conversation - and , making allowance for A PEEP INTO UPPER BOHEMIA . POLITICS OF UPPER BOHEMIA. THERE is a district which is not marked out in any of the maps , although it lies ...
... seen better days , as could easily be gleaned from their conversation - and , making allowance for A PEEP INTO UPPER BOHEMIA . POLITICS OF UPPER BOHEMIA. THERE is a district which is not marked out in any of the maps , although it lies ...
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... seen the Upper Bobemians at home ; and I feel a strong interest in them . I have seen stricter honour brought into play among them than often characterises the dealings of the snobs of the commercial und fashionable worlds . I have not ...
... seen the Upper Bobemians at home ; and I feel a strong interest in them . I have seen stricter honour brought into play among them than often characterises the dealings of the snobs of the commercial und fashionable worlds . I have not ...
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Página 99 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 141 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Página 335 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Página 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps...
Página 99 - And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Página 459 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Página 273 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Página 207 - The Karens are a meek, peaceful race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues, and few flagrant vices. Though greatly addicted to drunkenness, extremely filthy and indolent in their habits, their morals, in other respects, are superior to many more civilized races.
Página 427 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...
Página 20 - It is the same ! — for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free ; Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow ; Nought may endure but Mutability.