Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..William Martin Darton and Company, 1860 - Children's literature |
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Page 18 - PROVIDENT FUND.— Provident Annuities purchased by Ladies in any way connected with Education, upon Government Security, agreeably to the Act of Parliament. This branch includes a Savings' Bank. A HOME for Governesses during the intervals between their engagements. A SYSTEM OF REGISTRATION, entirely free of expense. AN ASYLUM for the Aged. Treasurer.
Page 176 - this reason I intend to have a few words with my young friends about ghosts, spectres, phantoms, hobgoblins, and the like. A ghost is supposed to be the spirit of a person deceased, who is either commissioned to return for some especial errand —such as the discovery of a murder; to procure restitution of land and property
Page 58 - built by the father of Montezuma. It was surrounded by a stone wall with towers, and its apartments and courts were so large as to accommodate the whole of the little army. This Cortez immediately fortified, and planted his ten pieces of artillery so as to command every approach to his quarters.
Page 27 - been prescribed for me ; and yet I got completely rid of it by taking about half a small box of your Lozenges, which I find are the only ones that relieve the cough. without deranging the stomach or digestive organs.— I am, Sir, your humble servant,
Page 79 - water prevented their going further than they did in a south easterly direction, which was that of the boat. He well knew that a shark required sufficient depth of water to sink beneath its prey ere it made its swoop, and that it uniformly turned on its back and struck upwards
Page 83 - object glanced past the young man, so near as almost to touch him. It was a shark that had actually turned on its back to seize its prey, and was only prevented from succeeding by being driven from the line of its course, by hitting the slimy rock over which it