Knight's Penny Magazine, Volume 13Charles Knight, 1844 |
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... curious one , and shows that our current ideas , respecting the cohesion or strength of wood , require a little modification . How- ever solid a piece of wood may appear to the eye , it is nevertheless a mere bundle of minute fibres and ...
... curious one , and shows that our current ideas , respecting the cohesion or strength of wood , require a little modification . How- ever solid a piece of wood may appear to the eye , it is nevertheless a mere bundle of minute fibres and ...
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... curious from its showing the similarity of its relation to our own country at so re- mote a period . In order to ensure as much safety as was practicable in their intercourse , the Romans constructed lighthouses at different points ...
... curious from its showing the similarity of its relation to our own country at so re- mote a period . In order to ensure as much safety as was practicable in their intercourse , the Romans constructed lighthouses at different points ...
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... curious kind of apparatus for making these investigations . It consisted of a thin tin cylinder about eight or nine feet long , and eight inches in diameter , closed at one end and open at the other . This was plunged into the water ...
... curious kind of apparatus for making these investigations . It consisted of a thin tin cylinder about eight or nine feet long , and eight inches in diameter , closed at one end and open at the other . This was plunged into the water ...
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... curious parallel terraces on either side of the sides , carrying part of the lateral moraine along two or three glens near the Caledonian Canal , the with and upon it . This retreat always leaves a con- terraces being strictly on a ...
... curious parallel terraces on either side of the sides , carrying part of the lateral moraine along two or three glens near the Caledonian Canal , the with and upon it . This retreat always leaves a con- terraces being strictly on a ...
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... curious effect in the group- ing of a landscape . This tree is a native of Europe , of North America , and of some parts of Asia and North Africa . It is of rapid growth , and is everywhere remarkable for a degree of tremulous motion in ...
... curious effect in the group- ing of a landscape . This tree is a native of Europe , of North America , and of some parts of Asia and North Africa . It is of rapid growth , and is everywhere remarkable for a degree of tremulous motion in ...
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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.