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Page 22 - O'm ommast chooakt we smitha-sleck, the wind it is so hoi. Ge Rafe and Jer a drop, They sen they cannot stop, They're e sich a moita hurra to get tot penny hop. They're e sich a moita hurra to get tot penny hop. Here's Steeam at lives at Heela, he'll soon be here, o kno ; He's larnt a new Makkarona step, the best yo ivver saw ; He has it sooa compleat, He troies up ivvera street, An ommast braiks all t' pavors we swattin dahn his feet, An Anak troies to beat him whenivver they dun meet.
Page 59 - Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well: Even though unforgiving, never 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Would that breast were bared before thee Where thy head so oft hath lain, While that placid sleep came o'er thee Which thou ne'er canst know again: Would that breast, by thee glanced over, Every inmost thought could show!
Page 70 - ... unimpaired by those causes which have produced death, and yet incapable of thought and intelligence. The conclusion therefore is, that mere organization cannot be the cause of intelligence, since it is plain that precisely the same state of the organs shall often be found before and after death; and yet, without any violence having been done to them, in one moment man shall be actually intelligent, and in the next incapable of a thought. So far then from the connection between mental phenomena,...
Page 21 - The Cutler's Song. Cum all yo cutlin heroes, where'ersome'er yo be, All yo wot works at flat-backs, cum lissen unto me; A baskitful for a shillin, To mak em we are willin, Or swap em for red herrins, ahr bellies tubbe fillin, Or swap em for red herrins, ahr bellies tubbe fillin. A baskitful o flat-backs o'm shooar we'll mak, or mooar, To ger reit intot gallara, whear we can rant an rooar ; Thro flat -backs, stooans, an sticks; Red herrins, booans, an bricks.
Page 53 - Man's life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve from it, even for an instant.
Page 28 - A ragman, a currier, a baker of bread And a clerk to the living, as well as the dead. Vestry clerk, petty constable, sells scissors and knives,. Best Virginia and buckles, collects the small tithes, Is a treas'rer to clubs, and maker of wills ; He surveys men's estates, and vends Anderson's pills.
Page 28 - Is a treasurer of clubs, and a maker of wills ; He surveys men's estates, and vends Anderson's pills. Woollen draper and hosier, sells all sorts of shoes, With the best earthenware — also takes in the news; Deals in hurdles and eggs, sells the best of small beer, The finest...
Page 57 - Canon ; but with respect to those which are out of the Canon no difference of opinion ever existed. " The reason of this agreement is a very satisfactory one. Every one who is at all versed in Ecclesiastical History is aware of the continual intercourse which took place in the apostolical age between the various branches of the church universal. This communication, as Mr. Nolan has well observed, arose out of the Jewish polity, under which...
Page 71 - ... actor, but must also be performed, to be judged by laws which shall determine it to be good or bad. These laws, man being the moral agent, we say, are the laws of God ; by them man is to measure his conduct.
Page 52 - ... or melancholy in the madman, enfeebled in the decline of life, doting in decrepitude, and annihilated by death. Take away from the mind of man, or from that of any other animal, the operations of the five external senses, and the functions of the brain, and what will be left behind?