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... daughter Agnes , and myself , set out , from Bayswater , to make the tour through the Isle of Wight which is recorded in the following pages . The principal object I have had in view , in writing down all we saw and heard during this ...
... daughter Agnes , and myself , set out , from Bayswater , to make the tour through the Isle of Wight which is recorded in the following pages . The principal object I have had in view , in writing down all we saw and heard during this ...
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... daughter's at tention to the objects they were passing . It is very strange that sensible and well - informed men should often take as much pleasure in confusing the thoughts : of a poor innocent child , as vicious boys do in tor ...
... daughter's at tention to the objects they were passing . It is very strange that sensible and well - informed men should often take as much pleasure in confusing the thoughts : of a poor innocent child , as vicious boys do in tor ...
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... daughter's mind from dwelling on the subject , and pointing to a corn - field , she asked Agnes if she knew what corn it was . Before , however , the child could answer , a young man who sat opposite , told her with a patronizing air ...
... daughter's mind from dwelling on the subject , and pointing to a corn - field , she asked Agnes if she knew what corn it was . Before , however , the child could answer , a young man who sat opposite , told her with a patronizing air ...
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... daughter's attention to the formation of plants . " Now tell me if you know any thing particular about the straw . " " I believe it is hollow and jointed . " " It is ; and , what is more , every wheat straw contains enough flinty matter ...
... daughter's attention to the formation of plants . " Now tell me if you know any thing particular about the straw . " " I believe it is hollow and jointed . " " It is ; and , what is more , every wheat straw contains enough flinty matter ...
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... . " . f While this conversation was passing , the train had kept whirling on , and Mrs. Merton had re- marked two or three things that she thought worthy of the notice of her little daughter : " she 14 GLIMPSES OF NATURE .
... . " . f While this conversation was passing , the train had kept whirling on , and Mrs. Merton had re- marked two or three things that she thought worthy of the notice of her little daughter : " she 14 GLIMPSES OF NATURE .
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Page 127 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs, Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page i - Glimpses of Nature ; And Objects of Interest described during a Visit to the Isle of Wight. Designed to assist and encourage Young Persons in forming habits of observation. By Mrs. LOUDON. Second Edition, enlarged. With Forty-one Illustrations. 3s. 6d. cloth. "We could not recommend a more valuable little volume. It is full of information, conveyed in the most agreeable manner."— Literary Gazette.
Page 126 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense. Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 30 - Those living jellies which the flesh inflame, Fierce as a nettle, and from that its name ; Some in huge masses, some that you may bring In the small compass of a lady's ring ; Figured by hand divine— there's not a gem Wrought by man's art to be compared to them ; Soft, brilliant, tender, through the wave they glow, And make the moonbeam brighter where they flow.
Page 25 - This giant was mighty, and he was strong, And feet full thirty was he long ; His lips were great, and hung aside ; His eyes were hollow, his mouth was wide : Loathly he was to look upon, And liker a demon than a man : His staff was a young and torn-up oak ; And hard and heavy was his stroke.
Page 140 - ... submit. But the most interesting, though not the most pleasant, thing about the lake, was the ooze or sponge which occurred frequently on its banks. The spongy places were slightly depressed valleys, without trees or bushes, with grass a foot or fifteen inches high ; they were usually from two to ten miles long, and from a quarter of a mile to a mile broad. In the course of thirty geographical miles, he crossed twenty-nine, and that too, at the end of the fourth month of the dry season. It was...
Page 127 - ... within the parent or without. The eggs of Birds contain whatever is wanted for the development of the embryo, except heat, which must come from without.
Page 68 - A third exhibits a fox in canonicals, with a crosier in his hand, and a mitre on his head ; above is a young fox chained, with a bag of money in his right paw. He is surrounded by geese, cranes, and other fowls...
Page 1 - ... or Thirty Shillings for the mare alone, and reasonable charges, paid by Jacob Wanick. NB It is supposed he has disposed of the mare. — The Pennsylvania Gazette, Jan. 16, 1753. No. 1256. Philadelphia, January 23. We hear from Burlington county, in the Jersies, That a Man, about 80 Years of Age, who had been in a bad State of Health, for some Time, and at Times delirious, cut his Throat, on the nth Instant, in so terrible a manner, that notwithstanding immediate Help was got for him, he died...