Harry and Lucy concluded: being the last part of Early lessons, Volume 2Baldwin and Cradock, 1837 - Brothers and sisters |
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... told us last night , " said Lucy , " that we should be surprised , before this day's journey should be over ? " 66 ' So he did , " said Harry ; " but I have been so happy all day , that I never thought of it till this minute . " " I ...
... told us last night , " said Lucy , " that we should be surprised , before this day's journey should be over ? " 66 ' So he did , " said Harry ; " but I have been so happy all day , that I never thought of it till this minute . " " I ...
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... told , and yet he almost despaired of discovering . 66 Father , I have read in some book of travels , of fires that burst out of the ground , of themselves . And I have heard of some lake of pitch , or some -what do you call it ? " 66 ...
... told , and yet he almost despaired of discovering . 66 Father , I have read in some book of travels , of fires that burst out of the ground , of themselves . And I have heard of some lake of pitch , or some -what do you call it ? " 66 ...
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... . " I see others . There they are , going on all night long , working , working , work- ing , always doing their duty , by themselves , and of themselves ; how very- " " Sublime , " said Lucy . His father told c 2 YOUNG TRAVELLERS . 19.
... . " I see others . There they are , going on all night long , working , working , work- ing , always doing their duty , by themselves , and of themselves ; how very- " " Sublime , " said Lucy . His father told c 2 YOUNG TRAVELLERS . 19.
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... told them , gave out a more steady and intense heat after the gas and smoke were driven off . Some of the fires , he added , might perhaps proceed from the refuse small coal , which were known occasionally to ignite spon- taneously ...
... told them , gave out a more steady and intense heat after the gas and smoke were driven off . Some of the fires , he added , might perhaps proceed from the refuse small coal , which were known occasionally to ignite spon- taneously ...
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... general use , the master told him , that it was the labour of years to do what is now perhaps done in a few days . His father stopped to look at a kind of lamp which has been used for some time in lighting mines 24 FOUNDERY .
... general use , the master told him , that it was the labour of years to do what is now perhaps done in a few days . His father stopped to look at a kind of lamp which has been used for some time in lighting mines 24 FOUNDERY .
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Page 323 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 183 - When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturity, and falleth into the sea...
Page 224 - For two hundred years his definition of a network as "any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections
Page 182 - There is a small island in Lancashir called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by shipwracke, and also the trunks and bodies with the branches of old and rotten trees, cast up there likewise; whereon is found a certain spume or froth that in time breedeth...
Page 12 - 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.
Page 10 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Page 183 - Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose, which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for threepence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repair unto me, and I shall satisfie them by the testimonie of good witnesses*.
Page 146 - 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.
Page 14 - All work and no play Makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work Makes Jack a mere toy.
Page 148 - 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; and of sailing without that wind, which defied the commands and threats of Xerxes himself. This potent commander of the elements...