Holiday PapersR. Hardwicke, 1864 - 431 pages |
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... matter if you lie late abed , or loll about all day on a sofa , when your girth grows , indeed , but below the chest . I don't know how I don't know how many miles a man in good health ought to make a point of walking in the course of ...
... matter if you lie late abed , or loll about all day on a sofa , when your girth grows , indeed , but below the chest . I don't know how I don't know how many miles a man in good health ought to make a point of walking in the course of ...
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... matter , and I can well believe it ; for Argus - a red - eyed , evil - favoured New- foundland we had - was once detected lamb- killing , then washing himself in a pond , and finally getting back to his kennel , and putting his head in ...
... matter , and I can well believe it ; for Argus - a red - eyed , evil - favoured New- foundland we had - was once detected lamb- killing , then washing himself in a pond , and finally getting back to his kennel , and putting his head in ...
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... matter of course . But , when most are shot , the remnant , the cherished survivors , settle down in the old place ; they are not numerous enough to make a colony or a dangerous minority , and so they stay . Thus the rookeries which are ...
... matter of course . But , when most are shot , the remnant , the cherished survivors , settle down in the old place ; they are not numerous enough to make a colony or a dangerous minority , and so they stay . Thus the rookeries which are ...
Page 106
... matters with him . He can't swallow a snail , shell and all ; so the thrush proceeds to get rid of this incumbrance . Seizing the snail , by what we will call the nape of the neck , he whacks him with all his might on a stone . Off ...
... matters with him . He can't swallow a snail , shell and all ; so the thrush proceeds to get rid of this incumbrance . Seizing the snail , by what we will call the nape of the neck , he whacks him with all his might on a stone . Off ...
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... matter . The discovery of single or clustered swallows deliberately com- mitted to a state of sleep , has , I believe , never been made certain . There seems always to have been an element of doubt in the evidence . Either they have ...
... matter . The discovery of single or clustered swallows deliberately com- mitted to a state of sleep , has , I believe , never been made certain . There seems always to have been an element of doubt in the evidence . Either they have ...
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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.
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