Chambers's Pocket Miscellany, Volume 9W. and R. Chambers, 1854 |
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... means of indulging these tastes . By an imperial decree , he was created Duke of Reichstadt , and endowed with Bohemian estates yielding L.20,000 sterling yearly ; and latterly , he had a separate household , with the rank of an ...
... means of indulging these tastes . By an imperial decree , he was created Duke of Reichstadt , and endowed with Bohemian estates yielding L.20,000 sterling yearly ; and latterly , he had a separate household , with the rank of an ...
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... means of avoiding those dangers , his own character , its defects , and the remedy for them ; in short , he shewed the clearest comprehension of his own circumstances , and how deeply he had weighed all the contingencies which it YOUNG ...
... means of avoiding those dangers , his own character , its defects , and the remedy for them ; in short , he shewed the clearest comprehension of his own circumstances , and how deeply he had weighed all the contingencies which it YOUNG ...
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... means of earning a livelihood ; and he could not , perhaps , even although he had had his eyesight , have made a better choice , or one more suited to his genius , for he possessed a natural talent for the musical art , had a correct ...
... means of earning a livelihood ; and he could not , perhaps , even although he had had his eyesight , have made a better choice , or one more suited to his genius , for he possessed a natural talent for the musical art , had a correct ...
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... means . We will explain . One night as Willie and Jamie were performing together in a certain quiet street in the city , a person dressed like a gentleman , and in other respects , to all appearance , really such , came up to them , and ...
... means . We will explain . One night as Willie and Jamie were performing together in a certain quiet street in the city , a person dressed like a gentleman , and in other respects , to all appearance , really such , came up to them , and ...
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... mean to deny that you got the half- croon , ye're no the man I took ye for , but nae better than ye should be - maybe no sae guid . To be sure I do mean to deny that I got the half- croon , ' replied Willie sternly , indignant at the ...
... mean to deny that you got the half- croon , ye're no the man I took ye for , but nae better than ye should be - maybe no sae guid . To be sure I do mean to deny that I got the half- croon , ' replied Willie sternly , indignant at the ...
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Page 131 - Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state, Where Age and Want sit smiling at the gate ; Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes, and gives.
Page 132 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame. Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor, makes all the history ; Enough, that virtue fill'd the space between ; Proved, by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 133 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect. Whose cause is God.
Page 133 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.
Page 64 - In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages...
Page 37 - Try their thin wings, and dance in the warm beam That waked them into life. Even the green trees Partake the deep contentment ; as they bend To the soft winds, the sun from the blue sky Looks in and sheds a blessing on the scene. Scarce less the cleft-born wild-flower seems to enjoy Existence, than the winged plunderer That sucks its sweets.
Page 132 - Is there a variance ? enter but his door, Balk'd are the courts, and contest is no more : Despairing quacks with curses fled the place, And vile attorneys, now a useless race.
Page 37 - Are still the abodes of gladness ; the thick roof Of green and stirring branches is alive And musical with birds, that sing and sport In wantonness of spirit; while below The squirrel, with raised paws and form erect, Chirps merrily.
Page 133 - One Spirit — his, Who wore the platted thorns with bleeding brows. Rules universal nature. Not a flower But shows some touch in freckle, streak, or stain, Of his unrivalled pencil. He inspires Their balmy odours, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes, In grains as countless as the sea-side sands, The forms in which He sprinkles all the earth.
Page 48 - ... continued his flight. The foremost of the Indians, on arriving at the place, stopped till others came up to join them, when they set up a hideous yell. Every moment of this time was improved by Colter, who, although fainting and exhausted, succeeded in gaining the skirting of the cotton wood trees, on the borders of the fork, through which he ran, and plunged into the river.