Letters from England, Volumen 3Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808 |
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... town ; you have the history of horse- races , cock - fights , and boxing - matches- information that the king has taken a ride , and the princess an airing ; a string of puns , and a paragraph of scandal . Then come what are called the ...
... town ; you have the history of horse- races , cock - fights , and boxing - matches- information that the king has taken a ride , and the princess an airing ; a string of puns , and a paragraph of scandal . Then come what are called the ...
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... say how differently this season was observed in their fathers ' days , and speak of old ceremonies and old festivities as things which are obsolete . The cause is obvious . In large towns the population is continually 72 LETTER LVIII .
... say how differently this season was observed in their fathers ' days , and speak of old ceremonies and old festivities as things which are obsolete . The cause is obvious . In large towns the population is continually 72 LETTER LVIII .
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Robert Southey. is obvious . In large towns the population is continually shifting ; a new settler nei- ther continues the customs of his own province in a place where they would be strange , nor adopts those which he finds , because ...
Robert Southey. is obvious . In large towns the population is continually shifting ; a new settler nei- ther continues the customs of his own province in a place where they would be strange , nor adopts those which he finds , because ...
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... towns as in London . It will be well for England when her cities shall decrease , and her villages multiply and grow ; when there shall be fewer streets and more cot- tages . The tendency of the present sy- stem is to convert the ...
... towns as in London . It will be well for England when her cities shall decrease , and her villages multiply and grow ; when there shall be fewer streets and more cot- tages . The tendency of the present sy- stem is to convert the ...
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... reader need not be apprised that the situa- tion of these Millers is in the Mouth gate of the town of Mansoul , according to Bunyan's allegory . - TR . } taken away , and its corruptions left to pu- trefy SWEDENBORGIANISM . 136.
... reader need not be apprised that the situa- tion of these Millers is in the Mouth gate of the town of Mansoul , according to Bunyan's allegory . - TR . } taken away , and its corruptions left to pu- trefy SWEDENBORGIANISM . 136.
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Página 238 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Página 219 - And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; 2 she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.
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Página 101 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Página 144 - Some years ago, being in the Campidoglio at Rome, he made up to the bust of Jupiter, and, bowing very low, exclaimed, in the Italian language,—" I hope, sir, if ever you get your head above water again, you will remember that I paid my respects to you in your adversity.
Página 322 - A GENERAL COLLECTION of VOYAGES and TRAVELS; forming a complete History of the Origin and Progress of Discovery, by Sea and Land, from the earliest Ages to the present Time...
Página 85 - A manufacturing poor is more easily instigated to revolt. They have no local attachments ; the persons to whom they look up for support they regard more with envy than respect, as men who grow rich by their labour...
Página x - Mr Rogers, being sentenced to be burned, and remanded back to prison, was on Monday morning, the fourth day of February, 1555, awakened out of a very sound sleep, with great difficulty, by the keeper's wife, who suddenly warned him to make haste and prepare himself for the fire. If it be so, said he, I need not tie
Página 302 - Oh,' said the gingerbread-baker, ' he wo'nt be angry at seeing me, I warrant, so show me the way up ;' and pushing the servant forward, he followed him up stairs into the room. When, however, he saw the great man whom he was come to honour lying on a couch, with his countenance pale, painful, and emaciated, yet full of benevolence, the sight overpowered him : he...