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Side 36
... continued to listen with intense emotion to every sound and symptom of the battle , like the brave and chivalrous Wolfe , when mortally wounded on Heights of Abraham . Death , how- ever , was not sweetened to Swinton , as to Wolfe , and ...
... continued to listen with intense emotion to every sound and symptom of the battle , like the brave and chivalrous Wolfe , when mortally wounded on Heights of Abraham . Death , how- ever , was not sweetened to Swinton , as to Wolfe , and ...
Side 39
... continued , seizing , vi et armis , on my red Morocco - covered journal.- " Zounds ! here's my own name ; I have at least a right to see this , " and be read on- " Wednesday 3d . Rode out with Scarlett - went three miles at an easy ...
... continued , seizing , vi et armis , on my red Morocco - covered journal.- " Zounds ! here's my own name ; I have at least a right to see this , " and be read on- " Wednesday 3d . Rode out with Scarlett - went three miles at an easy ...
Side 42
... ( Continued . ) THEN bauldly arose our gausie Gudewife , Wi ' the fire flaught in her e'e , " That e'er sic a crew shou'd breed i ' the land , The mair is the shame , " quoth she . " Our black - hooded Friars , and grey - hood- ed Friars ...
... ( Continued . ) THEN bauldly arose our gausie Gudewife , Wi ' the fire flaught in her e'e , " That e'er sic a crew shou'd breed i ' the land , The mair is the shame , " quoth she . " Our black - hooded Friars , and grey - hood- ed Friars ...
Side 45
... continued to heave and writhe , and shake its sides i ' the throes o ' travail , until it perfectly burst like a bewitched haggis ; and the hubbub o ' voices , mingled wi ' a ' sorts o ' music , that arose frae its shuddering ruins ...
... continued to heave and writhe , and shake its sides i ' the throes o ' travail , until it perfectly burst like a bewitched haggis ; and the hubbub o ' voices , mingled wi ' a ' sorts o ' music , that arose frae its shuddering ruins ...
Side 64
... continued till the pre- sent hour a source of unintermitted pleasure . Your readers will perhaps excuse these egotistical details , and impute them to the chartered garrulity of old age . To be able to forget the present in the past ...
... continued till the pre- sent hour a source of unintermitted pleasure . Your readers will perhaps excuse these egotistical details , and impute them to the chartered garrulity of old age . To be able to forget the present in the past ...
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Side 62 - When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness.
Side 53 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Side 94 - It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of riral economy.
Side 164 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Side 609 - Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester, from the beginning of the Civill Warre betweene King and Parliament, to the Removall of Colonel Massie from that Government to the Command of the Westerne Forces.
Side 120 - London's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo. 21s. London's Encyclopaedia of Gardening: comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening.
Side 75 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Side 94 - ... who plants an oak looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing can be less selfish than this. He cannot expect to sit in its shade, nor enjoy its shelter ; but he exults in the idea, that the acorn which he has buried in the earth shall grow up into a lofty pile, and shall keep on flourishing and increasing, and benefiting mankind, long after he shall have ceased to tread his paternal fields.
Side 250 - An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic Remains; Especially of Those Found in the British Strata: Intended to Aid the Student in His Inquiries Respecting the Nature of Fossils and Their Connection With the Formation of the Earth (London, 1822).
Side 148 - ... Grouchy's corps. He replied, " certainly ; and I can now scarcely comprehend why it was a Prussian division and not that of Grouchy." I then took the liberty of asking, whether, if neither Grouchy nor the Prussians had arrived, it would not have been a drawn battle. Napoleon answered, "the English army would have been destroyed. They were defeated at mid-day. But accident, or more likely destiny, decided that Lord Wellington should gain it. I could scarcely believe that he would have given me...