Knight's Penny Magazine, Volume 13Charles Knight, 1844 |
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Page 49
... appear that the same constituent parts exist , varied as they may be in shape and use . In order to render the subject ... appears to be to keep the food in its proper place during the action of the mandibles upon it . The labium , or ...
... appear that the same constituent parts exist , varied as they may be in shape and use . In order to render the subject ... appears to be to keep the food in its proper place during the action of the mandibles upon it . The labium , or ...
Page 51
... appears until late it fits lightly and rapidly from one resting - place to in September , and then so fresh and perfect in its another , expanding its wings to the sun . plumage as to manifest its recent production from the chrysalis ...
... appears until late it fits lightly and rapidly from one resting - place to in September , and then so fresh and perfect in its another , expanding its wings to the sun . plumage as to manifest its recent production from the chrysalis ...
Page 52
... appears in July , flitting about hedgerows , along shaded lanes , and about the borders of copses , alighting every LELE its aërial excursion . The caterpillars are found on the nettle , and are gregarious ; they are beset with spines ...
... appears in July , flitting about hedgerows , along shaded lanes , and about the borders of copses , alighting every LELE its aërial excursion . The caterpillars are found on the nettle , and are gregarious ; they are beset with spines ...
Page 58
... appears to have mi- nutely recorded all the occurrences of the settlement , the building of the first mill in the ... appear doubtful whether or not this is a genuine relic of the ancient Scandinavian colony ; there is assuredly not ...
... appears to have mi- nutely recorded all the occurrences of the settlement , the building of the first mill in the ... appear doubtful whether or not this is a genuine relic of the ancient Scandinavian colony ; there is assuredly not ...
Page 64
... appears that while their postage for the year ending March , 1839 , was on 30,000 letters , that for the year ending March , 1843 , was on about 240,000 ; and that considering the number of en- ' closures now contained in one letter ...
... appears that while their postage for the year ending March , 1839 , was on 30,000 letters , that for the year ending March , 1843 , was on about 240,000 ; and that considering the number of en- ' closures now contained in one letter ...
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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.