The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 2; Volume 11Charles Knight, 1842 - English periodicals |
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... according to M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire , of Cochin China , and even of the western peninsula of India . It is probably the largest species of the genus , the body of the full - grown male attaining very nearly the size of an ordinary man ...
... according to M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire , of Cochin China , and even of the western peninsula of India . It is probably the largest species of the genus , the body of the full - grown male attaining very nearly the size of an ordinary man ...
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... according to Livy , by Ancus Martius , and enlarged by Servius Tullius . The lower prison , however , assigned to the latter king , is supposed by some to have been a quarry , aud by others one of those subterranean granaries which were ...
... according to Livy , by Ancus Martius , and enlarged by Servius Tullius . The lower prison , however , assigned to the latter king , is supposed by some to have been a quarry , aud by others one of those subterranean granaries which were ...
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... according to circumstances , for the the confinement of a human being can scarcely be con- baggage and provisions . The comforts of an English ceived ; and Sallust , in a passage adduced by him , says inn are unknown in Turkey ; so that ...
... according to circumstances , for the the confinement of a human being can scarcely be con- baggage and provisions . The comforts of an English ceived ; and Sallust , in a passage adduced by him , says inn are unknown in Turkey ; so that ...
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... according to its shape are fitted in , which the Indian never fails to ornament according to his fashion . The corial narrows to a point towards the stern and bow . Like the canoes , they are scooped out from the trunk of a tree , and ...
... according to its shape are fitted in , which the Indian never fails to ornament according to his fashion . The corial narrows to a point towards the stern and bow . Like the canoes , they are scooped out from the trunk of a tree , and ...
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... According to the traditions of the altogether insignificant , compared with the army in Abruzzi , this king of robbers was , in general , averse the Abruzzi . So great was the disaffection of the to every kind of cruelty , except where ...
... According to the traditions of the altogether insignificant , compared with the army in Abruzzi , this king of robbers was , in general , averse the Abruzzi . So great was the disaffection of the to every kind of cruelty , except where ...
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Page 376 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 130 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Page 248 - Well, well, Master Kingston,' quoth my lord, ' I see the matter maketh you much worse than you should be against me; how it is framed I know not; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 22 - Rejoice, O young man in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes ; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 154 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate, set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies, The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...
Page 243 - To this entertainment there often follows that of whipping a blinded Bear, which is performed by five or six men, standing circularly, with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape from them because of his chain. He defends himself with all his force and skill, throwing down all who come within his reach, and are not quite active enough to get out of it, and tearing the Whips out of their hands and breaking them.
Page 2 - The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill. dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
Page 6 - They will remember the peculiar character which belonged to that circle, in which every talent and accomplishment, every art and science, had its place. They will remember how the last debate was discussed in one corner and the last comedy of Scribe in another ; while 'Wilkie gazed with modest admiration on...
Page 183 - These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose : she says, all her friends are in London, and she will not survive them. But what will you think of Lady Catherine Pelham, Lady Frances Arundel, and Lord and Lady Galway, who go this evening to an inn ten miles out of town, where they are to play at brag till five in the morning, and then come back — I suppose, to look for the bones of their husbands and families under the rubbish.
Page 5 - O'er my dim eyeballs glance the sudden tears? How sweet were once thy prospects fresh and fair, Thy sloping walks, and unpolluted air ! How sweet the glooms beneath...