Genius and Industry: The Achievements of Mind Among the Cottages ...Partridge and Oakey, 1852 - 221 pages |
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... became the object of a chancery suit . It was originally purchased in Prussia , for £ 300 . These are only illustrations , thousands of a similar character which might be enumerated , of immense labour ridiculously bestowed upon wholly ...
... became the object of a chancery suit . It was originally purchased in Prussia , for £ 300 . These are only illustrations , thousands of a similar character which might be enumerated , of immense labour ridiculously bestowed upon wholly ...
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... became like sticks , so that , according to his own brief description , there was nothing to keep up his garters , and his stockings came upon his heels as he walked , till he was the picture of wretchedness and destitution . Between ...
... became like sticks , so that , according to his own brief description , there was nothing to keep up his garters , and his stockings came upon his heels as he walked , till he was the picture of wretchedness and destitution . Between ...
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... became in- different to the work of his ingenuity - threw it aside for some time , and subsequently gave it to a friend as a matter in which he no longer took any interest . The net was by some means at length exhibited to some persons ...
... became in- different to the work of his ingenuity - threw it aside for some time , and subsequently gave it to a friend as a matter in which he no longer took any interest . The net was by some means at length exhibited to some persons ...
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... became the greatest astronomical discoverer of his age - constructed the most wonderful telescope ever lifted to the skies - descried the constellations and fires on the very outskirts of the universe , and a new world hanging on the ...
... became the greatest astronomical discoverer of his age - constructed the most wonderful telescope ever lifted to the skies - descried the constellations and fires on the very outskirts of the universe , and a new world hanging on the ...
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... became much more intimately acquainted with its best authors than is usual in Scotland , even among those who make some pretensions to literature . The Latin he under- stood thoroughly ; and it is perhaps the best proof of his classical ...
... became much more intimately acquainted with its best authors than is usual in Scotland , even among those who make some pretensions to literature . The Latin he under- stood thoroughly ; and it is perhaps the best proof of his classical ...
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Page 67 - The high sun sees not, on the earth, such fiery fearful show, — The roof-ribs swarth, the candent hearth, the ruddy, lurid row Of smiths that stand, an ardent band, like men before the foe; As, quivering through his fleece of flame, the sailing monster slow Sinks on the anvil, — -all about the faces fiery grow, — "Hurrah!" they shout, " leap out, leap out": bang, bang, the sledges go; Hurrah!
Page 63 - His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow : You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low.
Page 63 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise ! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies ; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes. Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Page 49 - Dutch settlement, was not, as might have been expected, in the best order; the apartment had not been regularly ventilated, and, either from this circumstance, or already affected by the fatal sickness peculiar to Batavia, Leyden, when he left the place, had a fit of shivering, and declared the atmosphere was enough to give any mortal a fever. The presage was too just; he took his bed, and died in three days, on the eve of the battle which gave Java to the British empire.
Page 119 - Oh! what a glorious thing it became, For it spoke to the world in a language of flame; While its master wrote on like a being inspired, Till the hearts of the millions were melted or fired: It came as a boon and a blessing to men, The peaceful, the pure, the victorious Pen! Young...
Page 51 - SLAVE of the dark and dirty mine ! What vanity has brought thee here? How can I love to see thee shine So bright, whom I have bought so dear?
Page 51 - Far from my sacred natal clime, I haste to an untimely grave; The daring thoughts that soared sublime Are sunk in ocean's southern wave, Slave of the mine ! thy yellow light Gleams baleful as the tomb-fire drear.
Page 52 - To roam in climes unkind and new. The cold wind of the stranger blew Chill on my withered heart the grave Dark and untimely met my view ; And all for thee, vile yellow slave...
Page 176 - ... at that hour thronged the room. After dinner I took a short walk, and then again sat down to Homer's Iliad, with a determination to master it, without a master. The proudest moment of my life was when I first possessed myself of the full meaning of the first fifteen lines of that noble work.
Page 18 - ... rare piece of work brought to pass by Peter Bales, an Englishman, and a clerk of the chancery ;" it seems by the description to have been the whole Bible " in an English walnut no bigger than a hen's egg. The nut holdeth the book: there are as many leaves in his little book as the great Bible, and he hath written as much in one of his little leaves as a great leaf of the Bible.