Holiday PapersR. Hardwicke, 1864 - 431 pages |
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... Fires and Fire Insurance The Police and the Thieves . Mortality in Trades and Pro- fessions Lunatle Asyluma London : ROBERT HARDWICKE , 192 , Piccadilly , W. 644 pp . , price 6 . The Stream of.
... Fires and Fire Insurance The Police and the Thieves . Mortality in Trades and Pro- fessions Lunatle Asyluma London : ROBERT HARDWICKE , 192 , Piccadilly , W. 644 pp . , price 6 . The Stream of.
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... Fire A Dinner at Greenwich Waiters London School Treats Hedge - popping . The Stamp Office Short Cuts Mobs · Sea - side Life • • Sea - bathing in France Bretons and Britons Mont St. Michel Going Abroad Back Again . · • Contents . Page ...
... Fire A Dinner at Greenwich Waiters London School Treats Hedge - popping . The Stamp Office Short Cuts Mobs · Sea - side Life • • Sea - bathing in France Bretons and Britons Mont St. Michel Going Abroad Back Again . · • Contents . Page ...
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... fire of his life burned up into a national triumph , and the mob claps its dirty hands at his approach . We must be careful not to confuse work and toil . In toil , there is a haste and strain to keep pace with the exigencies of the ...
... fire of his life burned up into a national triumph , and the mob claps its dirty hands at his approach . We must be careful not to confuse work and toil . In toil , there is a haste and strain to keep pace with the exigencies of the ...
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... fire , but you must leave yourself time to hammer one . This eagerness to multiply operations is a fertile source of failure . Much work is abortive , because it is manifold . There is all the difference in the world between the ability ...
... fire , but you must leave yourself time to hammer one . This eagerness to multiply operations is a fertile source of failure . Much work is abortive , because it is manifold . There is all the difference in the world between the ability ...
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Harry Jones. Speculation . 97 ness of the earth meets the sinking fire of the sunbeam , and sends an equal pulse of life through every blade and leaf . Then the watcher who stands beside the pool receives into his being that calm which ...
Harry Jones. Speculation . 97 ness of the earth meets the sinking fire of the sunbeam , and sends an equal pulse of life through every blade and leaf . Then the watcher who stands beside the pool receives into his being that calm which ...
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Page 257 - PEACE be to this house, and to all that dwell in it. IT When he cometh into the sick man's presence, he shall say, kneeling down, REMEMBER not, LORD, our iniquities, nor the iniquities of our forefathers ; Spare us, good LORD, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood ; and be not angry with us for ever.
Page 244 - I want is, that you should be able so far to put yourself out of the question, as to rejoice with those that rejoice, and weep with those that weep.
Page 166 - My curtains drawn and all is snug ; Old Puss is in her elbow-chair, And Tray is sitting on the rug. Last night I had a curious dream ; Miss Susan Bates was Mistress Mogg — What d'ye think of that, my Cat ? What d'ye think of that, my Dog ? She...
Page 160 - A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be.
Page 119 - During the last century it has spread gradually over Asiatic Russia towards the north and east, always following the progress of cultivation. It made its first appearance on the Irtisch in Tobolsk, soon after the Russians had ploughed the land. It came in 1735 up the Obi to Beresow, and four years after to Naryn, about fifteen degrees of longitude farther east. In 1710 it had been seen in the higher parts of the course of the Lena, in the...
Page 35 - The natural (or merely worldly-wise) man, receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; for they are foolishness unto him : neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." They are "hid from the wise and prudent, and revealed unto babes...