Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Том 16,Випуск 136 – Том 18,Випуск 160William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1847 |
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... British man of science . MR WATT'S RETIREMENT FROM BUSINESS - HIS DEATH- PERSONAL HABITS AND CHARACTER . Mr Watt's various patents expired in the year 1800. In that year , therefore , he withdrew entirely from business , leaving his ...
... British man of science . MR WATT'S RETIREMENT FROM BUSINESS - HIS DEATH- PERSONAL HABITS AND CHARACTER . Mr Watt's various patents expired in the year 1800. In that year , therefore , he withdrew entirely from business , leaving his ...
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... British fleet in the harbour , to force the strong defences by assault , the city is invested by a strict blockade . All commu- nication with the country is cut off on the one side , while the harbour is closed by the ever - wakeful British ...
... British fleet in the harbour , to force the strong defences by assault , the city is invested by a strict blockade . All commu- nication with the country is cut off on the one side , while the harbour is closed by the ever - wakeful British ...
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... British had destroyed the French fleet , and great were the rejoicings accordingly . Surely much of the joy on this occasion was out of place , for it is not exactly conformable to the principles of Christianity to rejoice over the ...
... British had destroyed the French fleet , and great were the rejoicings accordingly . Surely much of the joy on this occasion was out of place , for it is not exactly conformable to the principles of Christianity to rejoice over the ...
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... British to drive the French armies out of the peninsula , was attended with some of the most distressing events which can occur in a state of warfare . To secure possession of the country , á number of fortified 13 PICTURES OF WAR .
... British to drive the French armies out of the peninsula , was attended with some of the most distressing events which can occur in a state of warfare . To secure possession of the country , á number of fortified 13 PICTURES OF WAR .
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... BRITISH SIEGE OF BADAJOZ . Wellington having driven the French out of Portugal ( 1810 ) , resolved to lay siege to Badajoz , a town situated on the Portu- guese frontier , on the left bank of the Guadiana , and which , although not of ...
... BRITISH SIEGE OF BADAJOZ . Wellington having driven the French out of Portugal ( 1810 ) , resolved to lay siege to Badajoz , a town situated on the Portu- guese frontier , on the left bank of the Guadiana , and which , although not of ...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts William Chambers,Robert Chambers Повний перегляд - 1846 |
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Сторінка 9 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Сторінка 28 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
Сторінка 11 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on Kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Сторінка 15 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Сторінка 20 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial, endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me?
Сторінка 6 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Сторінка 27 - Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Сторінка 9 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun...