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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... tion headed by Montrose , he was killed in one of the battles then fought , and his little property was confiscated . This person's son , Thomas Watt , was but an infant at the time of his father's death . Left almost destitute by that ...
... tion headed by Montrose , he was killed in one of the battles then fought , and his little property was confiscated . This person's son , Thomas Watt , was but an infant at the time of his father's death . Left almost destitute by that ...
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... tion he acquired great reputation , and became one of the most respected and influential persons in the neighbourhood , filling for several years the office of baron bailie , or chief magistrate of the burgh of Crawford's Dike . He died ...
... tion he acquired great reputation , and became one of the most respected and influential persons in the neighbourhood , filling for several years the office of baron bailie , or chief magistrate of the burgh of Crawford's Dike . He died ...
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... tion of the person who watched these two cocks . A curious acci- dent , however , remedied this inconvenience . A boy of the name of Humphrey Potter , being employed to tend one of Newcomen's engines , found the constant watching so ...
... tion of the person who watched these two cocks . A curious acci- dent , however , remedied this inconvenience . A boy of the name of Humphrey Potter , being employed to tend one of Newcomen's engines , found the constant watching so ...
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... tion of the person who watched these two cocks . A curious acci- dent , however , remedied this inconvenience . A boy of the name of Humphrey Potter , being employed to tend one of Newcomen's engines , found the constant watching so ...
... tion of the person who watched these two cocks . A curious acci- dent , however , remedied this inconvenience . A boy of the name of Humphrey Potter , being employed to tend one of Newcomen's engines , found the constant watching so ...
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... give an impulse to mining speculations . New mines were opened ; and old mines , which could not be profitably worked when taxed with such a consump- tion of fuel for draining as Newcomen's engines required , 19 LIFE OF JAMES WATT .
... give an impulse to mining speculations . New mines were opened ; and old mines , which could not be profitably worked when taxed with such a consump- tion of fuel for draining as Newcomen's engines required , 19 LIFE OF JAMES WATT .
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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...