Knight's Penny Magazine, Volume 13Charles Knight, 1844 |
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... close resemblance to the common cabbage species , from which , however , it is very distinct , as is proved by their respective caterpillars . It is a very common species , appearing about the beginning of May : a second flight takes ...
... close resemblance to the common cabbage species , from which , however , it is very distinct , as is proved by their respective caterpillars . It is a very common species , appearing about the beginning of May : a second flight takes ...
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... close to the sea ; those discovered in 1826 and 1827 were a little out of the town , on the right of the road to Paris . The coffins in these last - mentioned tombs were ranged in regular order , and the bones ( some of which bore the ...
... close to the sea ; those discovered in 1826 and 1827 were a little out of the town , on the right of the road to Paris . The coffins in these last - mentioned tombs were ranged in regular order , and the bones ( some of which bore the ...
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... close to the water . When , on the contrary , the head was im- mersed for a few seconds beneath the water , or the hearing - tube was employed , the sound could be heard distinctly at from ten to twenty times this distance . The ...
... close to the water . When , on the contrary , the head was im- mersed for a few seconds beneath the water , or the hearing - tube was employed , the sound could be heard distinctly at from ten to twenty times this distance . The ...
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... close to the green cultivated patches of ground attached to the cottages of the pea- sants . In the valley of Chamouni , Ebel found that the glaciers advance about fourteen feet in a year ; in that of Grindelwald the glaciers move ...
... close to the green cultivated patches of ground attached to the cottages of the pea- sants . In the valley of Chamouni , Ebel found that the glaciers advance about fourteen feet in a year ; in that of Grindelwald the glaciers move ...
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... close to the town , on the west , and the canal at a little distance on the north and east . On the south side , but at some distance , are the heights of Pech - David ; and on the east , beyond the canal , and between it and the little ...
... close to the town , on the west , and the canal at a little distance on the north and east . On the south side , but at some distance , are the heights of Pech - David ; and on the east , beyond the canal , and between it and the little ...
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Page 181 - And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
Page 10 - Though not a man of them knew wherefore; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared rout, to battle sounded; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. A wight he was whose very sight would Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood...
Page 11 - He ne'er gave quarter to any such. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting, was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack...
Page 31 - He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page 61 - ... made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
Page 231 - No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a wellgoverned Angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 10 - His tawny beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and dye so like a tile, A sudden view it would beguile ; The upper part whereof was whey, The nether orange, mix'd with grey.
Page 11 - prentice to a brewer, Where this and more it did endure, But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. In th' holsters, at his saddle-bow, Two aged pistols he did stow, Aniong the surplus of such meat As in his hose he could not get : ' These would inveigle rats with th...
Page 31 - Free-will they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow. All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin.
Page 244 - Where joy, heart's ease, and comforts grow, You'd scorn proud towers, And seek them in these bowers, Where winds sometimes our woods perhaps may shake, But blustering care could never tempest make, Nor murmurs e'er come nigh us, Saving of fountains that glide by us.