Harry and Lucy Concluded: Being the Last Part of Early Lessons, Volumen2R. Hunter, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825 - 340 páginas |
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... mind that disposition , and those habits , that may enable him to attain any part of knowledge he shall stand in need of in the future course of his life . LOCKE . LONDON : PRINTED FOR R. HUNTER , 72 , ST . PAUL'S CHURCHYARD ; AND ...
... mind that disposition , and those habits , that may enable him to attain any part of knowledge he shall stand in need of in the future course of his life . LOCKE . LONDON : PRINTED FOR R. HUNTER , 72 , ST . PAUL'S CHURCHYARD ; AND ...
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... mind his calling out , faster ! ' ' slower ! ' ' slower ! ' faster ! ' Therefore he must have some way of slackening or quickening the wheel , without interfering with the steam engine . This is done for him by a boy's simply shifting ...
... mind his calling out , faster ! ' ' slower ! ' ' slower ! ' faster ! ' Therefore he must have some way of slackening or quickening the wheel , without interfering with the steam engine . This is done for him by a boy's simply shifting ...
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... mind , Harry , on this subject , I can tell you , that Mr. Wedgwood offered to give the Royal Society a sufficient space of a bed of that clay , to supply the world with pyrometer pieces for ages . ' " " " I like that very much ...
... mind , Harry , on this subject , I can tell you , that Mr. Wedgwood offered to give the Royal Society a sufficient space of a bed of that clay , to supply the world with pyrometer pieces for ages . ' " " " I like that very much ...
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... mind . A thing which he had seen when she was away from home . A fire balloon , which went up because it was filled with heated air . He was one of the persons em- ployed to hold the great bag of the bal- loon over a fire made of straw ...
... mind . A thing which he had seen when she was away from home . A fire balloon , which went up because it was filled with heated air . He was one of the persons em- ployed to hold the great bag of the bal- loon over a fire made of straw ...
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... mind , so that you need not wonder at my remembering it . " While they were talking in this manner , their father was still speaking to the work- men about the stove of the hothouse . They joined him , and listened to what he was saying ...
... mind , so that you need not wonder at my remembering it . " While they were talking in this manner , their father was still speaking to the work- men about the stove of the hothouse . They joined him , and listened to what he was saying ...
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Página 149 - 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. 'What! no soap?
Página 327 - 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. Her hands each nightly couch prepared, And frugal meal on which they fared ; Unfolding spread the servet white, And decked the board with tankard bright. Through fretted hose, and garment rent, Her tiny needle deftly went, Till hateful penury, so graced, Was scarcely in their dwelling traced.
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Página 161 - ... for there was none. It was a dead flat, the atmosphere laden with the smell of coal and smoke. The grass, the hedges, the trees, all blackened. The hands and faces of every man, woman, and child they met, begrimed with soot! The very sheep blackened! not a lamb even with a lock of white wool, or a clean face. Lucy said that it was the most frightful country she had ever beheld. Harry acknowledged that there was nothing beautiful here to be seen; but it was wonderful, it was a sort of sublime....
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