Knight's Penny Magazine, Volume 13Charles Knight, 1844 |
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... given , though the incontestable evidences of its former ex- istence and strength yet remain in the massive ruins . Boulogne was a place of great antiquity : it was in the country of the Morini , a tribe of the Belgæ , and was known to ...
... given , though the incontestable evidences of its former ex- istence and strength yet remain in the massive ruins . Boulogne was a place of great antiquity : it was in the country of the Morini , a tribe of the Belgæ , and was known to ...
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... given by that prince to the abbey of St. Sernin , A.D. 778. There are ( or were lately ) eleven printing- offices , twenty - three booksellers ' shops : two political journals , and nine devoted to literature and the sciences , are ...
... given by that prince to the abbey of St. Sernin , A.D. 778. There are ( or were lately ) eleven printing- offices , twenty - three booksellers ' shops : two political journals , and nine devoted to literature and the sciences , are ...
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... given , they found that the limb oscillated backwards and forwards nearly in the same time as that of a living person of the same length , when walking at the top of his speed . In the second experiment , they cut through all the ...
... given , they found that the limb oscillated backwards and forwards nearly in the same time as that of a living person of the same length , when walking at the top of his speed . In the second experiment , they cut through all the ...
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... given in former numbers . In the large establishment of Messrs . Akroyd , at Halifax - one , indeed , among several establishments owned by the same firm in and near that town - we witnessed the process of worsted manufacture , not from ...
... given in former numbers . In the large establishment of Messrs . Akroyd , at Halifax - one , indeed , among several establishments owned by the same firm in and near that town - we witnessed the process of worsted manufacture , not from ...
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... given before the House of Lords on the wool trade in 1828 , it was stated that at that time a kind of cheap cloth , called ' stroud , ' made from woollen rags , was exported to the North American Indians , the tribes on the shores of ...
... given before the House of Lords on the wool trade in 1828 , it was stated that at that time a kind of cheap cloth , called ' stroud , ' made from woollen rags , was exported to the North American Indians , the tribes on the shores of ...
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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.