The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumen 21J. Limbird, 1833 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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... Jews , where Aaron was next in deputy to Moses , & c . He enjoyed some special marks of royalty , as to be patron of a bishopric , ( as he was of Rochester , ) to coin monies , to make knights , and to have the wardship of all those who ...
... Jews , where Aaron was next in deputy to Moses , & c . He enjoyed some special marks of royalty , as to be patron of a bishopric , ( as he was of Rochester , ) to coin monies , to make knights , and to have the wardship of all those who ...
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... Jews . The Persian and other Oriental nations likewise held Amulets in the highest venera- tion . The Greeks appear to have used them formed of minerals and various esteemed herbs ; many of their writers inform us that they were in ...
... Jews . The Persian and other Oriental nations likewise held Amulets in the highest venera- tion . The Greeks appear to have used them formed of minerals and various esteemed herbs ; many of their writers inform us that they were in ...
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... Jews ; from whom they appear to have descended to the first Christians ; whence they were derived by the Anglo- Saxons . After the marriage of the Anglo- Saxons , and the benediction had been given , the bride and bridegroom were ...
... Jews ; from whom they appear to have descended to the first Christians ; whence they were derived by the Anglo- Saxons . After the marriage of the Anglo- Saxons , and the benediction had been given , the bride and bridegroom were ...
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... Jews , and should therefore exceed them in liberality . Until the sixth century , • More than once was the writer ... Jewish law , which bestowed on the Levites the tenth of all the produce of the land , was universally regarded by the ...
... Jews , and should therefore exceed them in liberality . Until the sixth century , • More than once was the writer ... Jewish law , which bestowed on the Levites the tenth of all the produce of the land , was universally regarded by the ...
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... Jew , into the snare of another attachment . He forgets his vows , his convictions of the depravity of human nature ; he loves again , and is again undone . Six times already has the awful sacrifice been exacted of him . He has now lost ...
... Jew , into the snare of another attachment . He forgets his vows , his convictions of the depravity of human nature ; he loves again , and is again undone . Six times already has the awful sacrifice been exacted of him . He has now lost ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Alroy AMUSEMENT ancient Anne Boleyn appears Asmodeus beautiful bell birds Bishop body called Carausius chalybeate church colour court curious daughter death door earth England Engraving Epping Forest Epsom eyes father feeling feet Ferdinand Faithful fire flowers forest gardens gave ground Hall hand head heard heart Henry St Henry VIII honour horse hour Husborn Jews John John Soane king labour Lady land larva larvæ late light lived London look Lord Mantua master ment Merrivale miles mind morning nature never night o'er observed passed Pellico persons PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL present Queen reign replied Saxon says scene Schinderhannes seemed seen side Silvio Pellico Sir Thomas Somerset House spirit stone thee thing thou thought tion took town trees Uruana village Vivano walk walls whole wood young
Pasajes populares
Página 126 - The people of the State of New York, by the Grace of God, Free and Independent...
Página 184 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these when those are pass'd away.
Página 224 - •Sir, — I have two silver tea-spoons at London, and two at Bristol : this is all the plate which I have at present ; and I shall not buy any more while so many around me want bread. I am, sir, your most humble servant, JOHN WESLEY/' Perhaps there never was a more charitable man than Mr.
Página 249 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moones sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs...
Página 204 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
Página 139 - And Wordsworth, in a rather long " Excursion " (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages), Has given a sample from the vasty version • Of his new system to perplex the sages; ' 'Tis poetry — at least by his assertion.
Página 431 - Venus, a pea on a circle 284 feet in diameter ; the Earth also a pea, on a circle of 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet...
Página 280 - It were better for, him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Página 160 - you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world.' 'I don't know how great men you may be,' said the Guinea man, ' but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
Página 304 - What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly ! Each rapid movement gives a different dye. Like scales of burnished gold they dazzling show — Now sink to shade — now like a furnace glow.