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... ESTABLISHMENT AT PIMLICO ... ... ... ... 222 THOUGHTS ABOUT LONDON BEGGARS ... ... 237 WENHAM LAKE ICE .. ... ... ... ... 243 CANDLE MAKING ... ... ... ... WOMAN'S WORK THE TURKISH BATH ...... . THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE METROPOLIS ...
... ESTABLISHMENT AT PIMLICO ... ... ... ... 222 THOUGHTS ABOUT LONDON BEGGARS ... ... 237 WENHAM LAKE ICE .. ... ... ... ... 243 CANDLE MAKING ... ... ... ... WOMAN'S WORK THE TURKISH BATH ...... . THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE METROPOLIS ...
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... establishment of St. Martin's - le - Grand , which swings so ingeniously from its suspending rods , a vast platform attracts the eye of the visitor ; he sees upon it half a dozen men struggling amid a chaos of newspapers , which seem ...
... establishment of St. Martin's - le - Grand , which swings so ingeniously from its suspending rods , a vast platform attracts the eye of the visitor ; he sees upon it half a dozen men struggling amid a chaos of newspapers , which seem ...
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... establishment . According to a return moved for by Mr. T. Duncombe in 1847 , there were in the July of that year 4,658 letters containing property consigned to this department , repre- senting perhaps a two months ' accumulation . In ...
... establishment . According to a return moved for by Mr. T. Duncombe in 1847 , there were in the July of that year 4,658 letters containing property consigned to this department , repre- senting perhaps a two months ' accumulation . In ...
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... establishments of Dublin and Edinburgh , in like manner , collect all the same class of letters in Ireland and Scotland . In looking over the list of articles remaining in these two letter - offices , one cannot help being struck with ...
... establishments of Dublin and Edinburgh , in like manner , collect all the same class of letters in Ireland and Scotland . In looking over the list of articles remaining in these two letter - offices , one cannot help being struck with ...
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... establishment for the conveyance of letters , of late it has become a parcel - delivery company and banking - house . In the sale of postage - stamps it makes itself clearly a bank of issue , and in the circulation of money - orders it ...
... establishment for the conveyance of letters , of late it has become a parcel - delivery company and banking - house . In the sale of postage - stamps it makes itself clearly a bank of issue , and in the circulation of money - orders it ...
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Page 433 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 370 - THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine. And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea.
Page 182 - WHEN the Society for the Improvement of the Condition of the Labouring Classes was first established on its present footing, I accepted with great pleasure the offer of becoming its President.
Page 406 - HOLLAND. A COUNTRY that draws fifty foot of water, In which men live as in the hold of Nature, And when the sea does in upon them break, And drowns a province, does but spring a leak...
Page 489 - I was not always assured of my identity, or even existence, for I sometimes found it necessary to shout aloud to be sure that I lived, and I was in the habit very often at night of taking down a volume, and looking into it for my name, to be convinced that I had not been dreaming of myself.
Page 6 - that there hath been no certain or constant intercourse between the kingdoms of England and Scotland;" and commands "Thomas Witherings, Esq., his Majesty's postmaster of England for foreign parts, to settle a running post or two, to run night and day between Edinburgh and Scotland and the City of London, to go thither and come back in six days.
Page 477 - But, after a few months, another fit of somnolency invaded her. On rousing from it, she found herself restored to the state she was in before the first paroxysm ; but was wholly ignorant of every event and occurrence that had befallen her afterwards.
Page 489 - I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying, that there is only a step between his state who deeply indulges in imaginative meditation, and insanity...
Page 395 - I allow well ; so that he be such a one that hath the language, and hath been in the country before ; whereby he may be able to tell them what things are worthy to be seen in the country where they...
Page 509 - It would be more singular still if the silk-hat theory of baldness has any truth in it, as it would then turn out that we were sacrificing our own natural nap in order that the beaver might recover his. Without endorsing the speculative opinion of our hatter, we may, we believe, state it as a well ascertained circumstance that soldiers in helmetted regiments are oftener bald than any other of our heroic defenders.