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... term - it is intimately identified with and accompanies every step in the defluxion of time , from the period when the Creator in his huge and perfect wisdom made the heavens and the earth . Such being the case it may be thought , and ...
... term - it is intimately identified with and accompanies every step in the defluxion of time , from the period when the Creator in his huge and perfect wisdom made the heavens and the earth . Such being the case it may be thought , and ...
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... and deductions ranking under the term " progress . " There is indeed nothing which has ever been invented or made use of in any , even the smallest degree , that is not either compounded of earth itself 16 SKETCHES OF PROGRESS .
... and deductions ranking under the term " progress . " There is indeed nothing which has ever been invented or made use of in any , even the smallest degree , that is not either compounded of earth itself 16 SKETCHES OF PROGRESS .
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... terms , we understand to be the mode in which also the fine machine - made writing papers of the day are produced , though of course the raw material employed in their manufacture is of finer and whiter quality . CHAPTER VIII . " See ...
... terms , we understand to be the mode in which also the fine machine - made writing papers of the day are produced , though of course the raw material employed in their manufacture is of finer and whiter quality . CHAPTER VIII . " See ...
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... term civilization we are usually taught to believe comprises amongst various other things the gradual abolition of the lex non scripta - the disuse of all those old fangled facts and fictions relating more particularly to tenures the ...
... term civilization we are usually taught to believe comprises amongst various other things the gradual abolition of the lex non scripta - the disuse of all those old fangled facts and fictions relating more particularly to tenures the ...
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... term used for starvation leads us to the consideration of plenty ! Has it ever occurred to some of you what a distinct and wholesale step in the universal progress has been taken of late years in the utilization of those modes of rapid ...
... term used for starvation leads us to the consideration of plenty ! Has it ever occurred to some of you what a distinct and wholesale step in the universal progress has been taken of late years in the utilization of those modes of rapid ...
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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.