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... fire on a winter's evening whilst the snow is on the ground , a north east wind blowing with the thermometer registering fifteen degrees of frost , that may at any moment culminate by the negligence of the cook in the blowing up of the ...
... fire on a winter's evening whilst the snow is on the ground , a north east wind blowing with the thermometer registering fifteen degrees of frost , that may at any moment culminate by the negligence of the cook in the blowing up of the ...
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... fires unnecessary . It is to work apple parers apple parers and mangles , and " barbers ' brushes , " as well as give to all an electric light ! The general construction and working of electric railways also , as shewn by Dr. Siemens ...
... fires unnecessary . It is to work apple parers apple parers and mangles , and " barbers ' brushes , " as well as give to all an electric light ! The general construction and working of electric railways also , as shewn by Dr. Siemens ...
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... fires , we are unaware . Such a custom we must say does seem absurd in the present day - whilst it is a use , it is useless ! It may well be abandoned , yet there are many others whose inutility may be questioned , but which have been ...
... fires , we are unaware . Such a custom we must say does seem absurd in the present day - whilst it is a use , it is useless ! It may well be abandoned , yet there are many others whose inutility may be questioned , but which have been ...
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... and costly furniture of mansions , and after pouring combustible substances on it , set fire to it on the lawns in front . One day a close carriage appeared - a rush was made and the rioting 54 SKETCHES OF PROGRESS .
... and costly furniture of mansions , and after pouring combustible substances on it , set fire to it on the lawns in front . One day a close carriage appeared - a rush was made and the rioting 54 SKETCHES OF PROGRESS .
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... fire to it utterly destroying it - thence they went forward to the residence which with its contents was soon ransacked or in flames . Added to these cowardly outrages mill after mill , those vast piles of English industry , were fired ...
... fire to it utterly destroying it - thence they went forward to the residence which with its contents was soon ransacked or in flames . Added to these cowardly outrages mill after mill , those vast piles of English industry , were fired ...
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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.