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... manner of producing which may be thus explained . All objects exposed to the air become covered with an invisible organic film , which no dusting or ordinary cleaning will remove . Wherever the electricity touches this film it , burns ...
... manner of producing which may be thus explained . All objects exposed to the air become covered with an invisible organic film , which no dusting or ordinary cleaning will remove . Wherever the electricity touches this film it , burns ...
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... manner , voice , dress , lan- guage ; but it is in language that it is most noticeable . Slang , " so far as it has to do with language , takes for the most part two forms ; it discloses itself either in peculiar phraseology or in ...
... manner , voice , dress , lan- guage ; but it is in language that it is most noticeable . Slang , " so far as it has to do with language , takes for the most part two forms ; it discloses itself either in peculiar phraseology or in ...
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... manner which is observable in the familiar shake of the hand which passes between pugilists and admirers who are ... manners to use it ; and yet habit is second nature , and he who habitually uses slang " cannot always change his spots ...
... manner which is observable in the familiar shake of the hand which passes between pugilists and admirers who are ... manners to use it ; and yet habit is second nature , and he who habitually uses slang " cannot always change his spots ...
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... manner I make the most of my enjoyments ; and though I do not cast my cares away , I pack them in as little compass as I can , and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself , and never let them annoy others . - Southey . GIVE not ...
... manner I make the most of my enjoyments ; and though I do not cast my cares away , I pack them in as little compass as I can , and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself , and never let them annoy others . - Southey . GIVE not ...
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... manners , " said her mother , patting her arm . " I don't know what sort of manners Miss Pennie's used to among th ' Wynyards , an ' Huttons , an ' Ray- monds , but I dessay they're much t ' same as our own , " rejoined Mrs. Lister ...
... manners , " said her mother , patting her arm . " I don't know what sort of manners Miss Pennie's used to among th ' Wynyards , an ' Huttons , an ' Ray- monds , but I dessay they're much t ' same as our own , " rejoined Mrs. Lister ...
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Page 24 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?
Page 24 - Teaches thy way along that pathless coast— The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply...
Page 92 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Page 93 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he 'Would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.
Page 24 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 119 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care, No children run to lisp their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 24 - and tell you a truth which,- perchance, ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence...
Page 8 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 93 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Page 244 - God knows best! he was somebody's love: Somebody's heart enshrined him there; Somebody wafted his name above, Night and morn, on the wings of prayer. Somebody wept when he marched away, Looking so handsome, brave, and grand; Somebody's kiss on his forehead lay; Somebody clung to his parting hand.