The Strand Magazine, Volumen 10

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George Newnes
G. Newnes, 1895
 

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Página 162 - I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at 5 o'clock pm, on the 6th of August last, in latitude 24° 44...
Página 277 - ... that some operation was going forward in his mind ; yet that operation could not, from the readiness with which the answers were furnished...
Página 162 - On our attention being called to the object it was discovered to be an enormous serpent, with head and shoulders kept about four feet constantly above the surface of the sea...
Página 163 - It passed rapidly, but so close under our lee quarter, that had it been a man of my acquaintance I should have easily recognized his features with the naked eye...
Página 100 - It was a beautiful spring morning ; it was an hour's ride, and there was no other inside passenger. On the back of an old envelope I wrote in pencil the first two of the verses now so well known, in order to teach the tune to the village school supported by my step-mother, and which it was my province to visit.
Página 677 - I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all people in the world the precisely least likely to give you a farthing ! My first word to all men and boys who care to hear me is " Don't get into debt. Starve and go to heaven — but don't borrow. Try first begging — I don't mind if it's really needful — stealing ! But don't buy things you can't pay for...
Página 229 - I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Página 677 - And of all manner of debtors pious people building churches they can't pay for, are the most detestable nonsense to me. Can't you preach and pray behind the hedges — or in a sandpit — or a coalhole — first ? And of all manner of churches thus idiotically built, iron churches are the damnablest to me.
Página 146 - Bayard occupied another couple of hours — in the end, the jury brought in a verdict of " Guilty," and the prisoner was sentenced to five years
Página 163 - ... yellowish white about the throat. It had no fins, but something like the mane of a horse, or rather a bunch of seaweed, washed about its back.

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