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A FEBRUARY morning on the Whang - Pu , the air cold and bracing , a light misty rain falling , and the dull grey light of English winter - time . A sort of feel of London , as if Tilbury had been dropped in the Far East and become ...
A FEBRUARY morning on the Whang - Pu , the air cold and bracing , a light misty rain falling , and the dull grey light of English winter - time . A sort of feel of London , as if Tilbury had been dropped in the Far East and become ...
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He was waving his arms and shouting in French and Arabic and English at the Mamur , Abdulla Effendi Tantowi , who followed in his wake making large soothing gestures . M'Wil- liam had no idea what it was all about , but he took hold of ...
He was waving his arms and shouting in French and Arabic and English at the Mamur , Abdulla Effendi Tantowi , who followed in his wake making large soothing gestures . M'Wil- liam had no idea what it was all about , but he took hold of ...
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So swift was the that the English were not victory that , though they were with them . There would seem only some fifty paces behind to have been much talk and the first line , they saw no shaking of heads among those , enemy but the ...
So swift was the that the English were not victory that , though they were with them . There would seem only some fifty paces behind to have been much talk and the first line , they saw no shaking of heads among those , enemy but the ...
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... on the eminence on surprise the Duke of Cumber- which we had remained for land in his camp at Nairn by three days , and from which as we Let every ning . ” a we saw the English 1927. ) 61 The Chevalier de Johnstone .
... on the eminence on surprise the Duke of Cumber- which we had remained for land in his camp at Nairn by three days , and from which as we Let every ning . ” a we saw the English 1927. ) 61 The Chevalier de Johnstone .
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Out arm of the English govern- of the fund set aside by Louis ment contrived to reach him . XV . for the subsistence of the The Resident presented a peti- exiled Scots , he was awarded tion to the States - General de- in 1746 twelve ...
Out arm of the English govern- of the fund set aside by Louis ment contrived to reach him . XV . for the subsistence of the The Resident presented a peti- exiled Scots , he was awarded tion to the States - General de- in 1746 twelve ...
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Página 152 - Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer, Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
Página 283 - How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal to the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two, shall hardly be understood without an interpreter?
Página 282 - ... that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Página 285 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy...
Página 59 - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
Página 516 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Página 285 - The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom...
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Página 60 - The populace, at first, did not interrupt him, conceiving our army to be near the town ; but as soon as they knew that it would not arrive till the evening, they surrounded him in a tumultuous manner, with the intention of taking him prisoner, alive or dead.
Página 155 - Westminster Hall ; for many people think, if once they have fetched a warrant from a justice, they have given earnest to follow the suit, though otherwise the matter be so mean that the next night's sleep would have bound both parties to the peace, and made them as good friends as ever before.