La Belle Assemblée, Volume 18J. Bell, 1818 |
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... sent him every evening to ring the church bell ; but the boy always returned home at a very late hour . His father beat him , and still La Caille stayed an hour after he had rung the bell . The father finding something mysterious in ...
... sent him every evening to ring the church bell ; but the boy always returned home at a very late hour . His father beat him , and still La Caille stayed an hour after he had rung the bell . The father finding something mysterious in ...
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... sent to Paris , there to study the law , and in the interval boarded with a Procureur au Châtelet . Upon the demise of his father he inherited a very | handsome fortune , which he soon squan- dered away by dint of indulging in all the ...
... sent to Paris , there to study the law , and in the interval boarded with a Procureur au Châtelet . Upon the demise of his father he inherited a very | handsome fortune , which he soon squan- dered away by dint of indulging in all the ...
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... sent for to execute the last will and testament of the two candidates , each of whom bequeathed the whole of his pro- perty , goods and chattels , & c . in want of next of kin , to such and such friends and domestics . The uncle then ...
... sent for to execute the last will and testament of the two candidates , each of whom bequeathed the whole of his pro- perty , goods and chattels , & c . in want of next of kin , to such and such friends and domestics . The uncle then ...
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... sent from Florence by Ferdinand I. and Cosma II . uncle and cousin to Mary di Medicis , the wife of this King Henry . It is enclosed with a strong and beautiful grate of iron , about which there are always mountebanks , shewing their ...
... sent from Florence by Ferdinand I. and Cosma II . uncle and cousin to Mary di Medicis , the wife of this King Henry . It is enclosed with a strong and beautiful grate of iron , about which there are always mountebanks , shewing their ...
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... sent by tain of Laocoon is in a large square pool , the Queen Regent to Loretto , as an offer- throwing the water near forty feet high , ing for the birth of the Dauphin , now the and having about it a multitude of statues young King ...
... sent by tain of Laocoon is in a large square pool , the Queen Regent to Loretto , as an offer- throwing the water near forty feet high , ing for the birth of the Dauphin , now the and having about it a multitude of statues young King ...
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Page 58 - The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The...
Page 112 - Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature ; they being both servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for nature is the art of God...
Page 233 - Mecklenburg with desolation. I know, Sire, that it seems unbecoming my sex, in this age of vicious refinement, to feel for one's country, to lament the horrors of war, or wish for the return of peace. I know you may think it more properly my province to study the...
Page 178 - There is a mystic thread of life So dearly wreathed with mine alone, That destiny's relentless knife At once must sever both or none. There is a form on which these eyes Have often gazed with fond delight ; By day that form their joy supplies, And dreams restore it through the night. There is...
Page 56 - Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now forty years since I worked like you, at this Press, as a journeyman Printer.
Page 58 - The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...
Page 319 - I returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented itself was an immense folio of a brief, twenty golden guineas wrapped up beside it, and the name of Old Bob Lyons marked upon the back of it. I paid my landlady — bought a good dinner — gave Bob Lyons a share of it — and that dinner was the date of my prosperity.
Page 58 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common...