Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued as] Chambers's Journal of popular literature, science and arts, Volume 11 |
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... arms , and converted himself into an accurate representation of a railway semaphore giving the signal ' Danger . ' A few moments , and he subsided into Proceed with caution . ' ' You might make decent house or coach painters some of you ...
... arms , and converted himself into an accurate representation of a railway semaphore giving the signal ' Danger . ' A few moments , and he subsided into Proceed with caution . ' ' You might make decent house or coach painters some of you ...
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... arm ; and being metal throughout , whatever it touches , causes a vibration to thrill through its length , and the living arm feels with a quick , nice sense each quiver of its doom - dealing helpmate . In the deadly fight , they become ...
... arm ; and being metal throughout , whatever it touches , causes a vibration to thrill through its length , and the living arm feels with a quick , nice sense each quiver of its doom - dealing helpmate . In the deadly fight , they become ...
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... arm soon dropped . Smith Wieland was not contented with his work , and , taking a file , reduced the whole to powder . He then took meal and milk , and mixed up with the filings , so that a paste was formed , which he gave to a family ...
... arm soon dropped . Smith Wieland was not contented with his work , and , taking a file , reduced the whole to powder . He then took meal and milk , and mixed up with the filings , so that a paste was formed , which he gave to a family ...
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... arms on the seal was a knightly privilege ; and this right of affixing such seal to any document - to seal as well as sign - was a most cherished prerogative . For the sake of convenience , and that it might be always at hand , the seal ...
... arms on the seal was a knightly privilege ; and this right of affixing such seal to any document - to seal as well as sign - was a most cherished prerogative . For the sake of convenience , and that it might be always at hand , the seal ...
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... arms . FOOTPRINTS . FROM the time of Robinson Crusoe downward , there has always been a sort of mysterious curiosity in people's minds when they encounter under peculiar circumstances , or in peculiar places , footprints , whether human ...
... arms . FOOTPRINTS . FROM the time of Robinson Crusoe downward , there has always been a sort of mysterious curiosity in people's minds when they encounter under peculiar circumstances , or in peculiar places , footprints , whether human ...
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Page 61 - Fifty-five! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson. Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text, Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the -Moses - was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill.
Page 20 - The snowdrop, and then the violet, Arose from the ground with warm rain wet, And their breath was mixed with fresh odour, sent From the turf, like the voice and the instrument. Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all. Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Page 44 - Know that this theory is false ; his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere. Since to one common centre all things tend, So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At...
Page 61 - But nothing local as one may say. There couldn't be, — for the Deacon's art Had made it so like in every part That there wasn'ta chance for one to start. For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills, And the panels just as strong...
Page 61 - You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once — All at once, and nothing first — Just as bubbles do when they burst.
Page 46 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace yet want her Peers...
Page 61 - And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore. And spring and axle and hub encore. And yet, as a whole, it is past a doubt In another hour it will be worn out!
Page 19 - Mixed with a sound of waters murmuring Along a shelving bank of turf, which lay Under a copse, and hardly dared to fling Its green arms round the bosom of the stream, But kissed it and then fled, as thou mightest in dream. There grew pied wind-flowers and violets, Daisies, those pearled Arcturi of the earth, The constellated flower that never sets...
Page 191 - That as soon as practicable, this society shall proceed to arrange the powers of production, distribution, education, and government, or in other words to establish a self-supporting home colony of united interests, or assist other societies in establishing such colonies.
Page 118 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...