Miscellanies, 2. kötetJ.W. Parker and Son, 1860 |
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3. oldal
... matters ; after all , why help to support more human beings , when it had settled long ago that there were too many already ? Why even stop epidemics , which might be only nature's wholesome method of ridding herself of that plethora of ...
... matters ; after all , why help to support more human beings , when it had settled long ago that there were too many already ? Why even stop epidemics , which might be only nature's wholesome method of ridding herself of that plethora of ...
10. oldal
... matter valuable in other ways , frightful to contem- plate : - Dead horses and oxen everywhere . . . the immense quantity of bones is quite wonderful ; they are , I am told , used as fuel by the poorer people for cooking and heating ...
... matter valuable in other ways , frightful to contem- plate : - Dead horses and oxen everywhere . . . the immense quantity of bones is quite wonderful ; they are , I am told , used as fuel by the poorer people for cooking and heating ...
11. oldal
... matter , which putrifies in the open air , and which might all make ammonia or saltpetre . " Large quantities of these bones , it should be said , are now imported into Europe as manure ; but what a double Laputism ' is involved in the ...
... matter , which putrifies in the open air , and which might all make ammonia or saltpetre . " Large quantities of these bones , it should be said , are now imported into Europe as manure ; but what a double Laputism ' is involved in the ...
15. oldal
... matter , dashed off with a careless , but a graceful pen . Mr. Mansfield's extraordinary variety of information made him as good a traveller on paper , as his bodily activity , temperance , and unfailing energy and good humour , made ...
... matter , dashed off with a careless , but a graceful pen . Mr. Mansfield's extraordinary variety of information made him as good a traveller on paper , as his bodily activity , temperance , and unfailing energy and good humour , made ...
30. oldal
... matter how , like flies by summer heat , out of that everlasting midden which men call the world , to buzz and sting their foolish day , and leave behind them a fresh race which knows them not , and could win no honour by owning them ...
... matter how , like flies by summer heat , out of that everlasting midden which men call the world , to buzz and sting their foolish day , and leave behind them a fresh race which knows them not , and could win no honour by owning them ...
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358. oldal - Let them praise the Name of the Lord : for he spake the word, and they were made ; he commanded, and they were created.
304. oldal - And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
249. oldal - And soon with this he other matter blended, Cheerfully uttered, with demeanour kind, But stately in the main ; and, when he ended, I could have laughed myself to scorn to find In that decrepit man so firm a mind.
78. oldal - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth...
131. oldal - Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek...
193. oldal - He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread : but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
110. oldal - Fletcher ; and lastly (without wrong last to be named), the right happy and copious industry of Master Shakespeare, Master Dekker, and Master Heywood...
85. oldal - The King and the Subject, and told me as he would warrant it. Monies! we'll raise supplies what way we please And force you to subscribe to blanks, in which We'll mulct you as we shall think fit. The Caesars In Rome were wise, acknowledging no laws But what their swords did ratify; the wives And daughters of the senators bowing to Their will, as deities, &c. Of this passage Sir Henry Herbert says: This is a piece taken out of Philip Massinger's play, called The King and the Subject...
98. oldal - He that is said to be able to inform young men to all good disciplines, inflame grown men to all great virtues, keep old men in their best and supreme state...
140. oldal - Did not the very lapwing, as she tumbled softly wailing, before his path, as she did years ago, seem to welcome the wanderer home in the name of heaven ? Fair Patience, too, though she was a Puritan, yet did not her cheek flush, her eye grow dim, like any other girl's, as she saw far off the...