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... learned that necessity is the mother of invention , so when their eyes were opened and they found themselves in what we in these days should undoubtedly describe as at least a questionable plight , they turned their immediate attention ...
... learned that necessity is the mother of invention , so when their eyes were opened and they found themselves in what we in these days should undoubtedly describe as at least a questionable plight , they turned their immediate attention ...
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... learned Professor's Lecture which was delivered before the Society of Arts went to shew amongst numerous useful results , that it would be possible by means of electricity , for a person in London , not simply to hear but to see an ...
... learned Professor's Lecture which was delivered before the Society of Arts went to shew amongst numerous useful results , that it would be possible by means of electricity , for a person in London , not simply to hear but to see an ...
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... learned authority we have recently quoted goes on to say that the mischiefs that have arisen to the public from inconsiderate alterations in our laws , are too obvious to be called in question , and how far they have been owing to the ...
... learned authority we have recently quoted goes on to say that the mischiefs that have arisen to the public from inconsiderate alterations in our laws , are too obvious to be called in question , and how far they have been owing to the ...
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... phenomenon we have before touched upon , and which is an undoubted fact , namely , that in regard to the production of great and learned men in the scientific world Nature has her fits and starts , may with 126 SKETCHES OF PROGRESS .
... phenomenon we have before touched upon , and which is an undoubted fact , namely , that in regard to the production of great and learned men in the scientific world Nature has her fits and starts , may with 126 SKETCHES OF PROGRESS .
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... learned , and whose general knowledge acquired in a course of classical , mathematical and theological study , travel , and the minor adjuncts , so often fits him for the highest position in society . And so assuredly ought such a ...
... learned , and whose general knowledge acquired in a course of classical , mathematical and theological study , travel , and the minor adjuncts , so often fits him for the highest position in society . And so assuredly ought such a ...
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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.