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... Miss Sophia Matthews , our old- maidish school - mistress , who would be heartily glad to be a girl again , she foresaw one handsome husband , and for the smart widow Simmons , two . These were the least of her triumphs . George Wheeler ...
... Miss Sophia Matthews , our old- maidish school - mistress , who would be heartily glad to be a girl again , she foresaw one handsome husband , and for the smart widow Simmons , two . These were the least of her triumphs . George Wheeler ...
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... Miss Emily Calcraft , the writer of a short life of Lord Erskine , of which Dr. Parr spoke in terms of the highest approba- tion ; and which , as well as the former tract , are specimens of a pure and forcible style of English ...
... Miss Emily Calcraft , the writer of a short life of Lord Erskine , of which Dr. Parr spoke in terms of the highest approba- tion ; and which , as well as the former tract , are specimens of a pure and forcible style of English ...
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... miss the house than find it , so bedded as it was , looking from the level ground , in tangled , uncut , broom and copse . But , from the brow of the height which the road reaches above , when the legate looked downwards , although ...
... miss the house than find it , so bedded as it was , looking from the level ground , in tangled , uncut , broom and copse . But , from the brow of the height which the road reaches above , when the legate looked downwards , although ...
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... Miss Mitford's Vil- lage Sketches , and in the estimation of some will be considered superior to that popular work . BRADY'S Varieties of Literature . — The late industrious author of the Clavis Calen- daria was not likely to leave ...
... Miss Mitford's Vil- lage Sketches , and in the estimation of some will be considered superior to that popular work . BRADY'S Varieties of Literature . — The late industrious author of the Clavis Calen- daria was not likely to leave ...
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... Miss Lucy Aikin , who has pre- Good books fixed a well - written preface . for persons of the age of thirteen to seven- teen are scarce , therefore this little collec- tion is valuable . Its chief excellencies are , elegance in the ...
... Miss Lucy Aikin , who has pre- Good books fixed a well - written preface . for persons of the age of thirteen to seven- teen are scarce , therefore this little collec- tion is valuable . Its chief excellencies are , elegance in the ...
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Page 49 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 141 - And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.
Page 595 - SING them upon the sunny hills, When days are long and bright, And the blue gleam of shining rills Is loveliest to the sight ! Sing them along the misty moor, Where ancient hunters roved, And swell them through the torrent's roar, The songs our fathers loved ! The songs their souls rejoiced to hear When harps were in the hall, And each proud note made lance and spear Thrill on the...
Page 173 - ... clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, while the laborer is fed with the crumbs which fall from the table of the rich.
Page 48 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 485 - That it shall and may be lawful to and for any number of persons, in Great Britain, to form themselves into, and to establish one or more society or societies of good fellowship, for the purpose of raising from time to time, by subscriptions of the several members...
Page 73 - But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system. Pound St Paul's church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is, to be sure, good for nothing: but, put all these atoms together, and you have St Paul's church.
Page 303 - GREEK GRAMMAR; With' Notes for the use of those, who have made some Progress in the Language.
Page 539 - ' that the House do resolve itself into a committee of the whole house, to consider the...
Page 315 - Murray was admitted to the bar, and received a licence to practise, both as counsel and attorney, in all the courts of the state of New York. In this profession he continued, with increasing reputation and success, till the troubles in America interrupted all business of this nature. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which, by his diligence, abilities, and respectable connexions, he soon acquired a handsome competency.