American Notes and Queries, Nide 5William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris W.S. and H.C. Walsh, 1890 |
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... tion . In Swabia , the children are forbidden to indulge in the favorite childish amuse- ment of making shadow - pictures of rabbits on the wall , because it is considered a sin against the moon . " Among English popular customs cele ...
... tion . In Swabia , the children are forbidden to indulge in the favorite childish amuse- ment of making shadow - pictures of rabbits on the wall , because it is considered a sin against the moon . " Among English popular customs cele ...
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... tion . In the tabernacle were seven lamps . The golden candlestick had seven branches . Naaman washed seven times in the river Jordan . Job's friends sat with him seven days and seven nights , and offered bullocks and seven rams for an ...
... tion . In the tabernacle were seven lamps . The golden candlestick had seven branches . Naaman washed seven times in the river Jordan . Job's friends sat with him seven days and seven nights , and offered bullocks and seven rams for an ...
Sivu 15
... tion of its origin unsettled . The oldest known forms of the word are buggy , buggie , and the like . It seems to the present writer not improbable that the town of Bugia ( Fr. Bougie ) , now in Algeria , gave name to the fur . I cannot ...
... tion of its origin unsettled . The oldest known forms of the word are buggy , buggie , and the like . It seems to the present writer not improbable that the town of Bugia ( Fr. Bougie ) , now in Algeria , gave name to the fur . I cannot ...
Sivu 19
... tion of Corneille's ' Pompey : " " Heaps of the slain , deny'd a funeral , Just nature to their own revenge does call ; From putrid corps exhaling poisonous airs , Enough to plague the guilty conquerors . " [ What a rhyme ! ] CHILMARK ...
... tion of Corneille's ' Pompey : " " Heaps of the slain , deny'd a funeral , Just nature to their own revenge does call ; From putrid corps exhaling poisonous airs , Enough to plague the guilty conquerors . " [ What a rhyme ! ] CHILMARK ...
Sivu 21
... tion , and employs from fifty to one hundred and fifty men . For six months in the year ( the winter months ) , the mine is almost inaccessible from the deep snow and snow slides , and it is hard to get miners to work there in the ...
... tion , and employs from fifty to one hundred and fifty men . For six months in the year ( the winter months ) , the mine is almost inaccessible from the deep snow and snow slides , and it is hard to get miners to work there in the ...
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Sivu 63 - Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad — a personage less imposing — in the eyes of some perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
Sivu 46 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, Sister spirit, come away ! What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns...
Sivu 46 - What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring : Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O Grave ! where is thy Victory ? O Death ! where is thy Sting?
Sivu 46 - Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world recedes; it disappears!
Sivu 39 - One, two, Buckle my shoe; Three, four, Shut the door; Five, six, Pick up sticks; Seven, eight, Lay them straight; Nine, ten, A good fat hen; Eleven, twelve, Who will delve?
Sivu 293 - We soon observed, that in talking to one another we lost several of our words, and could not hear one another at above two yards' distance, and that too when we sat very near the fire.
Sivu 29 - Who comes with summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth, With ring of Agate on her hand Can health, wealth and long life command.
Sivu 179 - WHEN Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation — 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation) — A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called " gravitation ; " And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.
Sivu 124 - And for myself, besides my yearly allowance, I would have twenty gowns of apparel, six of them excellent good ones, eight of them for the country, and six other of them very excellent good ones.
Sivu 233 - River; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London...