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... Better not , for boundaries too often cause debates and disagreeables , and the boundaries of Kensington are as unsettled as those of Russia . Like that country , too , it has tendencies to swallow up the smaller surrounding States ...
... Better not , for boundaries too often cause debates and disagreeables , and the boundaries of Kensington are as unsettled as those of Russia . Like that country , too , it has tendencies to swallow up the smaller surrounding States ...
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... better cultivated than the rest . Some straggling vines would attract our eye , for our forefathers could not send to Spain or France for sherry and claret , but were obliged to be contented with what their own country could produce ...
... better cultivated than the rest . Some straggling vines would attract our eye , for our forefathers could not send to Spain or France for sherry and claret , but were obliged to be contented with what their own country could produce ...
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... professes that they are no better , nay rather worse than other folk . But the worthy theorist will turn hot and cold and feel his heart in a flutter when his majesty condescendingly addresses a few words to him , on the unveiling.
... professes that they are no better , nay rather worse than other folk . But the worthy theorist will turn hot and cold and feel his heart in a flutter when his majesty condescendingly addresses a few words to him , on the unveiling.
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... better that the annalists should have described it than have left no description at all , though we would willingly barter half the banquets and “ tour- neys " in Froissart , Monstrelet , Fabian or Hall , for a glimpse into the home ...
... better that the annalists should have described it than have left no description at all , though we would willingly barter half the banquets and “ tour- neys " in Froissart , Monstrelet , Fabian or Hall , for a glimpse into the home ...
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... in- creased action . Like Charles XII . of Sweden , he would not know when he was beaten . He towers in intel- lectual superiority above the other monarchs of his age , and England was better governed and happier un- 38 KENNA'S KINGDOM .
... in- creased action . Like Charles XII . of Sweden , he would not know when he was beaten . He towers in intel- lectual superiority above the other monarchs of his age , and England was better governed and happier un- 38 KENNA'S KINGDOM .
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Page 89 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, Parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and Pride that licks the dust.
Page 98 - The road between this place (Kensington) and London is grown so infamously bad, that we live here in the same solitude as we should do if cast on a rock in the middle of the ocean, and all the Londoners tell us there is between them and us a great impassable gulf of mud.
Page 90 - ... for the day of the week, and a watch for the hour of the day, you may inform yourself fully, without any other intelligence but your memory, of every transaction within the verge of the Court. Walking, chaises, levées, and audiences fill the morning.
Page 232 - IMPROMPTU, Suggested by a View, in 1766, of the Scat and Ruins of a Deceased Nobleman, at Kingsgate, Kent. Old, and abandon'd by each venal friend, Here H dt form'd the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution.
Page 27 - BONAPARTE. NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION, completed by the insertion of above One Hundred Birds omitted in the original Work, and Illustrated by valuable Notes, and Life of the Author, by Sir WILLIAM JARDINE.
Page 268 - ... who found himself for the first time among Ambassadors and Earls. They will remember that constant flow of conversation, so natural, so animated, so various, so rich with observation and anecdote ; that wit which never gave a wound ; that exquisite mimicry which ennobled, instead of degrading; that goodness of heart which appeared in every look and accent, and gave additional value to every talent and acquirement.
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Page 97 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Page 16 - Flagellate, Ciliate, and Tentaculiferous Protozoa, British and Foreign, and an account of the Organization and Affinities of the Sponges.
Page 268 - The time is coming when perhaps a few old men, the last survivors of our generation, will in vain seek, amidst new streets, and squares, and railway stations, for the site of that dwelling...