Old Faces in New MasksW. Kent & Company (late D. Bogue), 1859 - 391 páginas |
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... along the coast of France , there are churches more or less especially set aside for fishermen and their wives and families , in which they may offer up those votive gifts which are thought effective for gaining FISHWIVES . 25.
... along the coast of France , there are churches more or less especially set aside for fishermen and their wives and families , in which they may offer up those votive gifts which are thought effective for gaining FISHWIVES . 25.
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Robert Blakey. up those votive gifts which are thought effective for gaining the countenance and protection of Heaven in aid of their special calling in life . Pilgrimages of one hun- dred miles in extent are not unfrequently taken by ...
Robert Blakey. up those votive gifts which are thought effective for gaining the countenance and protection of Heaven in aid of their special calling in life . Pilgrimages of one hun- dred miles in extent are not unfrequently taken by ...
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... Wise Willie was raised every morning , who had the faculty of knowing the weather by the art of the wind . All these ancient people were said to have been called " Thomsons , " and it was thought 36 OLD FACES IN NEW MASKS .
... Wise Willie was raised every morning , who had the faculty of knowing the weather by the art of the wind . All these ancient people were said to have been called " Thomsons , " and it was thought 36 OLD FACES IN NEW MASKS .
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Robert Blakey. been called " Thomsons , " and it was thought degrading for any of the young fisher lads to marry a farmer's daughter . " Witty Eppie , the ale - wife , wad a ' sworn , be go laddie , I wad rather see my boat and my three ...
Robert Blakey. been called " Thomsons , " and it was thought degrading for any of the young fisher lads to marry a farmer's daughter . " Witty Eppie , the ale - wife , wad a ' sworn , be go laddie , I wad rather see my boat and my three ...
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... thought was refined and subtilized ; and the doctrinal parts of all branches of knowledge - for they all have their doctrines —were more and more accurately defined and mapped out . Leibnitz was the first of modern philosophers to ...
... thought was refined and subtilized ; and the doctrinal parts of all branches of knowledge - for they all have their doctrines —were more and more accurately defined and mapped out . Leibnitz was the first of modern philosophers to ...
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Página 212 - I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place : I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, — that, for anything I knew, the watch might have always been there.
Página 142 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Página 213 - For this reason, and for no other, viz. that, when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, eg that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day...
Página 214 - ... and measured progression, to pass over a given space in a given time. We take notice that the wheels are made of brass in order to keep them from rust; the springs of steel, no other metal being so elastic; that over the face of the watch there is placed a glass, a material employed in no other part of the work, but in the room of which, if there had been any other than a transparent substance, the hour could not be seen without opening the case.
Página 375 - It wears two boots and no spurs, sometimes having two pairs of legs in one boot ; and oftentimes against nature most preposterously it makes fair ladies wear the boot. Moreover, it makes people imitate seacrabs, in being drawn sideways, as they are when they sit in the boot of the coach.
Página 213 - ... manner, or in any other order, than that in which they are placed, either no motion at all would have been carried on in the machine, or none which would have answered the use that is now served by it. To reckon up a few of the plainest of these parts, and of their offices, all tending to one result: — We see a cylindrical box containing a coiled, elastic spring, which, by its endeavour to relax itself, turns round the box.
Página 142 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Página 176 - Pamphlets, cards, and prints swarm again : George Townshend has published one of the latter, which is so admirable in its kind, that I cannot help sending it to you. His genius for likenesses in caricature is astonishing — indeed, Lord Winchelsea's figure is not heightened — you friends Dodington and Lord Sandwich are like ; the former made me laugh till I cried.
Página 225 - The man had sure a palate cover'd o'er With brass or steel, that on the rocky shore First broke the oozy oyster's pearly coat, And risk'd the living morsel down his throat.
Página 228 - shoots," and each of them marks a year's growth ; so that, by counting them, we can determine at a glance the year when the creature came into the world. Up to the...