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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... wishes and the advices of his friends , he commenced business as a mathematical instrument - maker in Glasgow . The date of his settlement in this city , where he was afterwards to work out some of his greatest triumphs , was 1757 ...
... wishes and the advices of his friends , he commenced business as a mathematical instrument - maker in Glasgow . The date of his settlement in this city , where he was afterwards to work out some of his greatest triumphs , was 1757 ...
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... wish to humble the pride of the French king . In 1697 , after a bloody and expensive war of eight years , a peace was concluded at Ryswick , no object whatever having been gained . The pride of Louis XIV . had not been in the least ...
... wish to humble the pride of the French king . In 1697 , after a bloody and expensive war of eight years , a peace was concluded at Ryswick , no object whatever having been gained . The pride of Louis XIV . had not been in the least ...
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... wish , than I learned . But I never gave myself any trouble , and I did as much business in ten minutes as the others did for the four hours of school . But when I knew that I was a genius , it was then indeed I took matters easy . Yes ...
... wish , than I learned . But I never gave myself any trouble , and I did as much business in ten minutes as the others did for the four hours of school . But when I knew that I was a genius , it was then indeed I took matters easy . Yes ...
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... wish to do So. Knowing how to read , write , cipher , and draw , would have enabled you , with the advice of M. Imbert , to become a distinguished man , no matter in what career , if you had been resolved to work ; but you were not so ...
... wish to do So. Knowing how to read , write , cipher , and draw , would have enabled you , with the advice of M. Imbert , to become a distinguished man , no matter in what career , if you had been resolved to work ; but you were not so ...
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... wish him to know how to read and write like a notary , even though I may have nothing to put by at the end of the year . Yes , Master Denoyer , not to know how to read or write is to be at the mercy of everybody- of the bad as well as ...
... wish him to know how to read and write like a notary , even though I may have nothing to put by at the end of the year . Yes , Master Denoyer , not to know how to read or write is to be at the mercy of everybody- of the bad as well as ...
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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...