Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851Charles Knight C. Knight, 1851 - 860 стор. |
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... respects to these most amusing of organized beings . A school broke up for the holidays seems but a faint imitation of their gambols . Their power of locomotion is familiar to every one ; but really the amazing distance to which some of ...
... respects to these most amusing of organized beings . A school broke up for the holidays seems but a faint imitation of their gambols . Their power of locomotion is familiar to every one ; but really the amazing distance to which some of ...
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... respects truly " the first of men " -he who loved his country with an intense love , whatever might be his personal ambition - was succeeded by one as selfish and voluptuous as the bluff Harry , though not quite so unscrupulous . Like ...
... respects truly " the first of men " -he who loved his country with an intense love , whatever might be his personal ambition - was succeeded by one as selfish and voluptuous as the bluff Harry , though not quite so unscrupulous . Like ...
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... respect for the people . The very inscriptions here , that used to threaten the trespasser , now use the language of courtesy : " It is expected that the public will protect what is intended for public enjoyment . " Happily there is now ...
... respect for the people . The very inscriptions here , that used to threaten the trespasser , now use the language of courtesy : " It is expected that the public will protect what is intended for public enjoyment . " Happily there is now ...
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... respect to which griev- ance no one can recover without a common parliament ; " there was then added to the Great Charter , the following important law , " We do order that the king shall hold a parliament once a year , or twice if need ...
... respect to which griev- ance no one can recover without a common parliament ; " there was then added to the Great Charter , the following important law , " We do order that the king shall hold a parliament once a year , or twice if need ...
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... respect to the troops in Great Britain , of provision and forage . The construction and repair of fortifications , military works , and barracks , is another branch of the business of the department ; which has also the duty ...
... respect to the troops in Great Britain , of provision and forage . The construction and repair of fortifications , military works , and barracks , is another branch of the business of the department ; which has also the duty ...
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Сторінка 177 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Сторінка 199 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
Сторінка 203 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey: where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.
Сторінка 203 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Сторінка 271 - May the great God whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Сторінка 204 - Dr. Busby ! a great man ! he whipped my grandfather ; a very great man ! I should have gone to him myself, if I had not been a blockhead : a very great man !' " We were immediately conducted into the little chapel on the right hand.
Сторінка 610 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate. Our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines. Our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan. Our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth. We repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies.
Сторінка 200 - Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription.
Сторінка 9 - Park to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between and Mrs. Nelly, f as they called an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and standing on the green walk under it. I was heartily sorry at this scene.
Сторінка 130 - ... air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and...