Knight's Penny Magazine, Volume 13Charles Knight, 1844 |
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... persons may have noticed the great rapidity with which the sacks of malt are raised to the tops of the lofty London brewhouses , and may , without knowing wherefore , have observed that they shoot upwards like an arrow , notwithstanding ...
... persons may have noticed the great rapidity with which the sacks of malt are raised to the tops of the lofty London brewhouses , and may , without knowing wherefore , have observed that they shoot upwards like an arrow , notwithstanding ...
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... persons above water could hear sounds produced in the water . He caused three people to dive at once into water ... person to strike two stones to- gether beneath the surface ; at more than half a mile distance he heard the blows ...
... persons above water could hear sounds produced in the water . He caused three people to dive at once into water ... person to strike two stones to- gether beneath the surface ; at more than half a mile distance he heard the blows ...
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... persons have supposed that these must have been brought there by a current or flood of some kind from the north . But M. Agassiz thinks they once marked the southern margin of an immense glacier or sea of ice , extending thence ...
... persons have supposed that these must have been brought there by a current or flood of some kind from the north . But M. Agassiz thinks they once marked the southern margin of an immense glacier or sea of ice , extending thence ...
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... persons were afterwards dug out of the snow , of whom about half still survived . Nu- merous other cases have been recorded of entire vil- lages being overwhelmed ; and there is a well - known narrative of a family who existed for a ...
... persons were afterwards dug out of the snow , of whom about half still survived . Nu- merous other cases have been recorded of entire vil- lages being overwhelmed ; and there is a well - known narrative of a family who existed for a ...
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... persons , natives of the city or connected with it , whom the town has thought worthy of the honour of a place . The ex- palace of the archbishop , now occupied by the prefect of the department , is the handsomest modern building after ...
... persons , natives of the city or connected with it , whom the town has thought worthy of the honour of a place . The ex- palace of the archbishop , now occupied by the prefect of the department , is the handsomest modern building after ...
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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.