Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge

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R. Gibson, 1801

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339. oldal - No, madam," said he, in a tone of inconceivable disdain, "no, you have not been born or brought up for an engraver; such a lot would have done too much honour to your birth, to your fortune, and to your choice. A bellows-mender is worthy of you, and such is he, madam, whom you have taken for your husband.
347. oldal - English were too great patriots to injure the remains of Pompey. He knew little, however, of the disposition of the people who were engaged in this undertaking.
187. oldal - Catholics be sensible of the benefit they possess by having so many characters of eminence pledged not to embark in the service of Government, except on the terms of the Catholic privileges being obtained...
49. oldal - On the order of the day for going into a committee on the Bill, " to provide for the administration of justice in New South Wales and Van Dicmen's Land...
411. oldal - The field of battle was a plain two miles and a half long, and wholly covered with dead and wounded : there was not even room to set my foot without treading on some of them. Several brooks were so filled up with Russians, that I do affirm it, they lay heaped up one upon another, as high as two men, and appeared like hills to the even ground ; I could hardly recover myself from the fright occasioned by the great and miserable outcry of the wounded.
378. oldal - The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Right Hon.
157. oldal - ... sprung up, and informed me he had now found the place of his birth. Like him intoxicated with delight, I forgot all the fatigues of my journey. We wandered to other parts of the town, and at length reached this square. He espied the palace. Exactly opposite to your house, uttered a loud shriek, threw himself breathless into my arms, and pointed out the habitation of his father's.
108. oldal - ... he would fall along with it, into the chasm. Montmorency, who after the example of his attendant, had conceived the hope of avenging himself, now saw all possibility of effecting that design taken away, and as the axe entered the trunk, his anguish became so excessive that he fainted.
134. oldal - I repeated the same experiment, by exposing another of the young ones on the top of the cage. I observed the same conduct with the remainder of the brood, which consisted of four. I need hardly add, that not one either of the parents or children ever afterwards revisited the execrated cage*.
319. oldal - ... was over, when he fainted through weaknefs and lofs of blood. Were it permitted for a foldier to regret any one who has fallen in the fervice of his country, I might be excufed for lamenting him more than any other...

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