The Northern star, or, Yorkshire magazine, Volume 3Arthur Jewitt 1818 |
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... become early ac- quainted with realities , and it is by a representation of things rather than their terms , that a knowledge of them is more quickly imparted to the minds of youth . Nor is music less serviceable to the rising ...
... become early ac- quainted with realities , and it is by a representation of things rather than their terms , that a knowledge of them is more quickly imparted to the minds of youth . Nor is music less serviceable to the rising ...
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... becoming generally more level as it approaches the sea . If the swift- ness acquired by the fall be entirely lost by striking against obstacles , and the course of the river becomes horizontal , there is nothing but the pressure of the ...
... becoming generally more level as it approaches the sea . If the swift- ness acquired by the fall be entirely lost by striking against obstacles , and the course of the river becomes horizontal , there is nothing but the pressure of the ...
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... become so general : indeed the practice seems much better to accord with the cold and phlegmatic ideas of German sentimentality , than with the benign influence of a warmer tem- perament . But why it should be so universally ...
... become so general : indeed the practice seems much better to accord with the cold and phlegmatic ideas of German sentimentality , than with the benign influence of a warmer tem- perament . But why it should be so universally ...
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... becoming mothers are greatly exacerbated . Nevertheless in all large towns there are some midwives , and towards these the faculty manifest an avowed and unceasing dislike ; and no wonder ; for although they are as frequently successful ...
... becoming mothers are greatly exacerbated . Nevertheless in all large towns there are some midwives , and towards these the faculty manifest an avowed and unceasing dislike ; and no wonder ; for although they are as frequently successful ...
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... become a scarce book , the following extract from it , which gives an account of the siege of the Isle of Ely , in Lincolnshire , by William the Conqueror , and which is very descriptive of the manners of our ancestors , may , perhaps ...
... become a scarce book , the following extract from it , which gives an account of the siege of the Isle of Ely , in Lincolnshire , by William the Conqueror , and which is very descriptive of the manners of our ancestors , may , perhaps ...
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Page 31 - And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Page 15 - And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. 17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. 18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Page 28 - His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Page 49 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one ; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Page 90 - They parted — ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between. But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 46 - He was singular for his desire to be buried in the open churchyard, and not in the chancel of the minster, as was usual with other bishops...
Page 59 - And large black eyes that flash on you a volley Of rays that say a thousand things at once, To the high dama's brow, more melancholy, But clear, and with a wild and liquid glance, Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.
Page 55 - ... shocks in its passage over these rocky heights) with two small horses; sometimes a cow or two, comprises their all; excepting a little store of hard-earned cash for the land office of the district...
Page 13 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 59 - I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet south, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all.