The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 2; Volume 11Charles Knight, 1842 - English periodicals |
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... feet wide , and the secondary ones thirty - seven feet . The town has a har- bour frontage three miles in extent . Here the half- acre sections are very valuable , and would have fetched several hundred pounds as soon as the survey was ...
... feet wide , and the secondary ones thirty - seven feet . The town has a har- bour frontage three miles in extent . Here the half- acre sections are very valuable , and would have fetched several hundred pounds as soon as the survey was ...
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... feet six inches , and of the tail two feet three jumping ; on the contrary , I have uniformly observed inches . The body is large and robust ; the head round that on such occasions they extend the legs and arms and rather flattened ...
... feet six inches , and of the tail two feet three jumping ; on the contrary , I have uniformly observed inches . The body is large and robust ; the head round that on such occasions they extend the legs and arms and rather flattened ...
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... feet in length , and made of glass . Another was made of brass , about four feet and a half in length , and one foot in diameter at the larger end . Of this instrument , which he called the Stentoropho- nica , ' Morland states ( writing ...
... feet in length , and made of glass . Another was made of brass , about four feet and a half in length , and one foot in diameter at the larger end . Of this instrument , which he called the Stentoropho- nica , ' Morland states ( writing ...
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... feet long by twenty feet ments , or were content to pay an established rate of wide ; and the lower one , which is elliptical , measures posting . The post - master , or Tatâr Aga , is allowed a twenty feet by ten . The height of the ...
... feet long by twenty feet ments , or were content to pay an established rate of wide ; and the lower one , which is elliptical , measures posting . The post - master , or Tatâr Aga , is allowed a twenty feet by ten . The height of the ...
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... feet apart and a few inches in away . Some of these time - worn columns were covered with depth , are then made , and the parts secured afterwards by sweet - smelling creepers ; while their bases were concealed by a overlapping . It ...
... feet apart and a few inches in away . Some of these time - worn columns were covered with depth , are then made , and the parts secured afterwards by sweet - smelling creepers ; while their bases were concealed by a overlapping . It ...
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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.
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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.
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