Curiosities of Literature, Volumen1J. Murray, 1807 |
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Judy Holland. 24 More Fun Cat Stories To Amuse You! By Judy Holland 24 More Fun Cat Stories To Amuse You! Copyright ©
Judy Holland. 24 More Fun Cat Stories To Amuse You! By Judy Holland 24 More Fun Cat Stories To Amuse You! Copyright ©
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Adelia Belle Beard, Lina Beard. How to Amuse Yourself and Others The American Girls Handy Book. BY Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard. PREFACE. “I do wish some one would write a book like that for girls,” is the remark we have frequently ...
Adelia Belle Beard, Lina Beard. How to Amuse Yourself and Others The American Girls Handy Book. BY Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard. PREFACE. “I do wish some one would write a book like that for girls,” is the remark we have frequently ...
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... Amuse. M. Taylor transmits the order to me from the minister. “November 23.” The author's first impulse was to doubt the truth of the fact. The proceeding was so arbitrary as to be incredible. The document called the charte-verite says ...
... Amuse. M. Taylor transmits the order to me from the minister. “November 23.” The author's first impulse was to doubt the truth of the fact. The proceeding was so arbitrary as to be incredible. The document called the charte-verite says ...
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Harriet d'Oyly Howe. SOMETHING TO AMUSE YOU . A Book for the Young . BY HARRIET D'OYLY HOWE , AUTHORESS OF 66 " 1 66 STORIES FOR MY SUNDAY SCHOLARS , THE OLD MISSIONARY BOX , " " 6 " THE LITTLE GIRL IN WHITE , ETC. LONDON : WERTHEIM ...
Harriet d'Oyly Howe. SOMETHING TO AMUSE YOU . A Book for the Young . BY HARRIET D'OYLY HOWE , AUTHORESS OF 66 " 1 66 STORIES FOR MY SUNDAY SCHOLARS , THE OLD MISSIONARY BOX , " " 6 " THE LITTLE GIRL IN WHITE , ETC. LONDON : WERTHEIM ...
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Página 503 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Página 51 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 502 - I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Página 246 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law: All then is full, possessing and...
Página 316 - I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers and directors. Save but our army ! and let Jove...
Página 496 - Elias Ashmole writes in his diary — " May 13, 1653. E 2 My father Backhouse (an astrologer who had adopted him for his son, a common practice with these men) lying sick in Fleet-street, over against St. Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the true matter of the philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy.
Página 134 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 146 - When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones.
Página 464 - Were I to tell you that I do not mean to marry, I might say less than I intend ; and were I to tell you that I do mean to marry, I might say more than it is proper for you to know; therefore I give you an answer, ANSWERLESS !
Página 40 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.