The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumen1J. Limbird, 1823 |
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... land , who are doing eyery thing to make their sub- jects happy , will adopt some such mea- sures as will tend to the abolition of this evil practice . They have granted extensive pieces of ground to the Moo- sulmans , Armenians ...
... land , who are doing eyery thing to make their sub- jects happy , will adopt some such mea- sures as will tend to the abolition of this evil practice . They have granted extensive pieces of ground to the Moo- sulmans , Armenians ...
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... land was introduced . " You must ac- knowledge , my friend Wilkes , " observed Boswell one day , " that the approach to Edinburgh , from the London road , presents a very picturesque and inter- esting picture . " Why , so perhaps it may ...
... land was introduced . " You must ac- knowledge , my friend Wilkes , " observed Boswell one day , " that the approach to Edinburgh , from the London road , presents a very picturesque and inter- esting picture . " Why , so perhaps it may ...
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... land by one grand explosion . It is curious and some what consoling to observe , that if a blind and savage superstition was the chief exciting cause of the plot , it was the counter- acting workings of a natural humanity that ...
... land by one grand explosion . It is curious and some what consoling to observe , that if a blind and savage superstition was the chief exciting cause of the plot , it was the counter- acting workings of a natural humanity that ...
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... land is practised in Hindostan : - Two holes are dug in the disputed spot , in each of which the plaintiff and de- fendant's lawyers put one of their legs and remain there until one of them is tired , or complains of being stung by the ...
... land is practised in Hindostan : - Two holes are dug in the disputed spot , in each of which the plaintiff and de- fendant's lawyers put one of their legs and remain there until one of them is tired , or complains of being stung by the ...
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... land ; and to those who have visited this interesting part of my native coun- try , I can assure them , the comparison gives a favourable representation of the hills of Judea . But there are two remarkable points of difference : in the ...
... land ; and to those who have visited this interesting part of my native coun- try , I can assure them , the comparison gives a favourable representation of the hills of Judea . But there are two remarkable points of difference : in the ...
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Página 87 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 191 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Página 289 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Página 303 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 261 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 357 - Ye* ! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth— whose dice were human bones?
Página 153 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Página 418 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and...
Página 220 - Jeffery, with the first fire, shot his antagonist dead. This happened in France, whither he had attended his mistress in the troubles. He was again taken prisoner by a Turkish rover, and sold into Barbary.
Página 152 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...