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... Means ; " --lotteries ; an account of them may not be deemed uninteresting , The first lottery of which we have an account was drawn in 1569. It con- sisted of 400,000 lots , at 10s . each lot : the prizes were plate , and the profits ...
... Means ; " --lotteries ; an account of them may not be deemed uninteresting , The first lottery of which we have an account was drawn in 1569. It con- sisted of 400,000 lots , at 10s . each lot : the prizes were plate , and the profits ...
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... means one of the most timid of her sex ; but she was terrified beyond expression , lonely as she was , at this unexpected appa- rition . Uttering a loud scream , she flew out like an arrow , at a side - door , and hurried to the chamber ...
... means one of the most timid of her sex ; but she was terrified beyond expression , lonely as she was , at this unexpected appa- rition . Uttering a loud scream , she flew out like an arrow , at a side - door , and hurried to the chamber ...
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... means to purchase both . He felt himself surrounded by an invisible chain , and by a mist which magnified while it confused his fears . The countess Fe- odorowna , from whom he had expected the most eager questions and piercing ...
... means to purchase both . He felt himself surrounded by an invisible chain , and by a mist which magnified while it confused his fears . The countess Fe- odorowna , from whom he had expected the most eager questions and piercing ...
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... means fond of hav- ing his thoughts directed to that subject ; he evaded the question . A fortnight after , Louis took a paper out of his pocket , and read aloud , " On such a day , in the month of . one thousand six hundred and eighty ...
... means fond of hav- ing his thoughts directed to that subject ; he evaded the question . A fortnight after , Louis took a paper out of his pocket , and read aloud , " On such a day , in the month of . one thousand six hundred and eighty ...
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... means to sup- port himself during his illness . The night before he died , he called for a half - mutchkin of whisky , and as a particular friend of his sat by the side of the bed , and who personally in- formed me , he , taking a glass ...
... means to sup- port himself during his illness . The night before he died , he called for a half - mutchkin of whisky , and as a particular friend of his sat by the side of the bed , and who personally in- formed me , he , taking a glass ...
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Page 3 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 3 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head...
Page 4 - O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content...
Page 77 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
Page 2 - An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun', Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin A cannie errand to a neebor town : Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman grown, In youthfu...
Page 2 - I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: — If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
Page 157 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle, of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness. Instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar, of gold and jewels.
Page 3 - With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire : Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Page 2 - An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers: The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnoticed fleet; Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears. The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years; Anticipation forward points the view; The mother, wi' her needle an' her sheers, Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; The father mixes a' wi
Page 4 - And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, That He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.