Harry and Lucy: with Other Tales, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1842 |
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... Watson took Harry and his father to see his colliery . They were one by one to be let down in a bucket into the shaft of the coal - mine , which was like a deep well . Mr. Watson , turning his eyes upon Harry , asked his father if the ...
... Watson took Harry and his father to see his colliery . They were one by one to be let down in a bucket into the shaft of the coal - mine , which was like a deep well . Mr. Watson , turning his eyes upon Harry , asked his father if the ...
Page 322
... Watson's time was precious , which Mr. Watson did not deny . However , he did not hurry them , he only spoke shortly , passed on quickly , and called to the man at the windlass to " Let down . " They were drawn up in the same manner by ...
... Watson's time was precious , which Mr. Watson did not deny . However , he did not hurry them , he only spoke shortly , passed on quickly , and called to the man at the windlass to " Let down . " They were drawn up in the same manner by ...
Page 323
... Watson ; " and in all places it is no bad thing to do . ' Bluff and rough as he was , Harry liked Mr. Watson , who was very good - natured , and whenever he had time to think of the boy , pointed out what was worth his seeing ; but once ...
... Watson ; " and in all places it is no bad thing to do . ' Bluff and rough as he was , Harry liked Mr. Watson , who was very good - natured , and whenever he had time to think of the boy , pointed out what was worth his seeing ; but once ...
Page 324
... Watson , look- ing back from the door . " I am going only to see my workmen paid this Saturday evening ; this would be no diversion to you , my boy , would it ? " " Yes , it would , " said Harry , " if I should not be troublesome , " he ...
... Watson , look- ing back from the door . " I am going only to see my workmen paid this Saturday evening ; this would be no diversion to you , my boy , would it ? " " Yes , it would , " said Harry , " if I should not be troublesome , " he ...
Page 325
... Watson . book - keeping , though on the same principle , is much more complicated . " Harry was interested in listening to what was said to the people : Mr. Watson inquired how they were going on at home , and they told him all about ...
... Watson . book - keeping , though on the same principle , is much more complicated . " Harry was interested in listening to what was said to the people : Mr. Watson inquired how they were going on at home , and they told him all about ...
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Page 200 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 309 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie: and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What? No soap?
Page 386 - ... the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt — was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, — but one of the best and kindest of human beings.
Page 243 - THERE was an old man, who lived in a wood, As you may plainly see ; He said he could do as much work in a day, As his wife could do in three. With all my heart...
Page 240 - Magdalena, can scarcely conceive, how without interruption, at every instant of life, you may be tormented by insects flying in the air, and how the multitude of these little animals may render vast regions almost uninhabitable.
Page 386 - Amidst this company stood Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert, affording the means of dispensing with that time and tide which wait for no man,...
Page 384 - And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty taking, Did one dear inmate take her part, The last asleep, the earliest waking'. Her hands each nightly couch prepared, And frugal meal on which they fared ; Unfolding spread the servet white, And deck'd the board with tankard bright. Through fretted hose, and garment rent, Her tiny needle deftly went, Till hateful penury, so graced, Was scarcely in their dwelling traced.
Page 62 - Who causeth them to grow every where, and bloweth the seeds about in winds, and mixeth them with the mould, and watereth them with soft rains, and cherisheth them with dews? Who fanneth them with the pure breath of heaven ; and giveth them colours and smells, and spreadeth out their thin transparent leaves ? How doth the rose draw its crimson from the dark brown earth, or the lily its shining white...
Page 130 - Mamma, I understand the use of exactness in some things. In drawing in perspective, and in proportion, by a scale, as you taught me. Harry came to me the other day, and asked me to draw a cart for him; and I was glad to find that I could help him in something.
Page 12 - ... there was a large stone, upon which she climbed, and gathered as many honey-suckles as she liked. Whilst she was getting down, she held the flowers fast, for fear she should drop them into the ditch, and she felt something prick her finger very sharply; she looked, and she saw a bee drop...