Harry and Lucy concluded: being the last part of Early lessons, Volumen2Baldwin and Cradock, 1837 |
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... Canal Barnacle • Harry's Boat A True Story . The Bridge Trials of Patience The New Bridge Arches · Slide of Alpnach Roofing . Digby Castle 189 • 196 212 230 242 258 278 288 • · 307 HARRY AND LUCY . YOUNG TRAVELLERS . " HARRY !
... Canal Barnacle • Harry's Boat A True Story . The Bridge Trials of Patience The New Bridge Arches · Slide of Alpnach Roofing . Digby Castle 189 • 196 212 230 242 258 278 288 • · 307 HARRY AND LUCY . YOUNG TRAVELLERS . " HARRY !
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... roof them over with narrow slips of wood , bits of paling , which he had prepared for this purpose . These he nailed across the top of all the three arches , leaving intervals between of the breadth of each slip ; so that , when the ...
... roof them over with narrow slips of wood , bits of paling , which he had prepared for this purpose . These he nailed across the top of all the three arches , leaving intervals between of the breadth of each slip ; so that , when the ...
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... new views and new questions of philosophical discussion , as the result was contrary to some of the generally received opinions of mechanics , respecting friction especially . 288 ROOFING . " HARRY , my dear , " SLIDE OF ALPNACH . 287.
... new views and new questions of philosophical discussion , as the result was contrary to some of the generally received opinions of mechanics , respecting friction especially . 288 ROOFING . " HARRY , my dear , " SLIDE OF ALPNACH . 287.
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... roof , which she is going to have made , and I did not think the plan they proposed was a good one . Sir Rupert ... roofing , from a little model which his father had made for him . It took to pieces , and could be put together again ...
... roof , which she is going to have made , and I did not think the plan they proposed was a good one . Sir Rupert ... roofing , from a little model which his father had made for him . It took to pieces , and could be put together again ...
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... roof . Lucy begged of him to let her see it , and to ex- plain it to her before he showed it to his father , that she might understand what he was about . Harry said he would explain it to her with plea- sure ; but he thought it would ...
... roof . Lucy begged of him to let her see it , and to ex- plain it to her before he showed it to his father , that she might understand what he was about . Harry said he would explain it to her with plea- sure ; but he thought it would ...
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afraid Alpnach alum arch asked barnacle goose basket better boat boil bottom bridge Bridgenorth brown sugar butments called camera obscura carriage castle centrifugal force colour cried Harry cried Lucy crystals Dame Peyton's dear Harry dear Lucy fastened father told fire gentleman girder glad glass hand Harry and Lucy Harry's father heard hope horses invention king-post knew Lady Digby laughing lock look Lucy's mamma MARIA EDGEWORTH mason mean Miss Watson molasses mother never Panjandrum papa pieces postilion printing-press purlins queen-post recollect remember roof rope Rupert's Cottage seen shell side Sir Rupert Digby sloping stand steam steam-boat steam-engine steam-vessels stone stood sugar suppose sure suspension bridge talking tell thing thought top-mast trees turned understand vessel walk weight wood words
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Página 323 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 183 - When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturity, and falleth into the sea...
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Página 182 - There is a small island in Lancashir called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by shipwracke, and also the trunks and bodies with the branches of old and rotten trees, cast up there likewise; whereon is found a certain spume or froth that in time breedeth...
Página 12 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf, to make an apple-pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop.
Página 10 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Página 183 - Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose, which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for threepence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repair unto me, and I shall satisfie them by the testimonie of good witnesses*.
Página 146 - And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty taking, Did one dear inmate take her part, The last asleep, the earliest waking.
Página 14 - All work and no play Makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work Makes Jack a mere toy.
Página 148 - Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert — affording the means of dispensing with that time and tide which wait for no man; and of sailing without that wind, which defied the commands and threats of Xerxes himself. This potent commander of the elements...