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... ancient precedent of perfection ? Should the present fashion continue its development can it be said to fulfil the requirements of progress or not i.e. advancement and improvement ? We think we are bound to acknowledge that however ...
... ancient precedent of perfection ? Should the present fashion continue its development can it be said to fulfil the requirements of progress or not i.e. advancement and improvement ? We think we are bound to acknowledge that however ...
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... ancient Romans , very soon discovered the use of earthworks , and like the Romans we in our day adopt the same process of military tactics , shall we say improved tactics ? Perhaps the improvement , if there be any , may rest upon the ...
... ancient Romans , very soon discovered the use of earthworks , and like the Romans we in our day adopt the same process of military tactics , shall we say improved tactics ? Perhaps the improvement , if there be any , may rest upon the ...
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... ancient writings , therefore wheeled vehicles there must have been in those days , but we will not go back even so far to find a starting point sufficient for our purpose . In the narrow lanes , the bridle paths though highways ...
... ancient writings , therefore wheeled vehicles there must have been in those days , but we will not go back even so far to find a starting point sufficient for our purpose . In the narrow lanes , the bridle paths though highways ...
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... ancient and noble city can bestow on diligence and integrity . In this the zenith of his career he has reached the perfection of the times . Now it appears to us that this series of thoughtful illustrations and that of the idle ...
... ancient and noble city can bestow on diligence and integrity . In this the zenith of his career he has reached the perfection of the times . Now it appears to us that this series of thoughtful illustrations and that of the idle ...
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... ancient days by the light that was let in upon it and by inventions gradually disclosed through the expansion of the mind , resulting indeed from that enlightenment , raised itself in the scale , and by reasoning and thought there came ...
... ancient days by the light that was let in upon it and by inventions gradually disclosed through the expansion of the mind , resulting indeed from that enlightenment , raised itself in the scale , and by reasoning and thought there came ...
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Page 165 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision : and when the court was dismissed, went privily and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Page 141 - And here it is to be noted, that such Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth.
Page 163 - He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth. Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling ! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig.
Page 163 - ... the negligence of this unlucky young firebrand. Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip. He knew not what to think.
Page 162 - Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, who being fond of playing with fire, as younkers of his age commonly are, let some sparks escape into a bundle of straw, which kindling quickly, spread the conflagration over every part of their poor mansion, till it was reduced to ashes. Together with the cottage (a sorry antediluvian make-shift of a building, you may think it) what was of much more importance, a fine litter of new-farrowed pigs, no less than nine in number, perished.
Page 166 - Thus this custom of firing houses continued till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.
Page 166 - ... that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron. Roasting by the string, or spit, came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the most useful, and seemingly the most obvious arts, make their way among mankind.
Page 124 - But the constitutional government of this island is so admirably tempered and compounded, that nothing can endanger or hurt it, but destroying the equilibrium of power between one branch of the legislature and tho rest.
Page 164 - Eat, eat, eat the burnt pig, father, only taste, — O Lord," — with suchlike barbarous ejaculations, cramming all the while as if he would choke. Ho-ti trembled in every joint while he grasped the abominable thing, wavering whether he should not put his son to death for an unnatural young monster, when the crackling...
Page 165 - Evidence was given, the obnoxious food itself produced in court, and verdict about to be pronounced, when the foreman of the jury begged that some of the burnt pig, of which the culprits stood accused, might be handed into the box.