Sea DriftT. Hinton, 1858 - 252 من الصفحات |
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... the House of Peers , and see after haggling long , and with the world of names before them where to choose , choosing ill at last . I can never utter the venerated names of Drumlanrig , Glenelg , Skelmersdale , and a vi PREFACE .
... the House of Peers , and see after haggling long , and with the world of names before them where to choose , choosing ill at last . I can never utter the venerated names of Drumlanrig , Glenelg , Skelmersdale , and a vi PREFACE .
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... never presented itself , and I thought no more about it ; but the other day , at Bruxelles , I was talking over naval matters with Colonel Digby Murray , a yachter and a relative of the late Admiral Sir Henry Digby , and repeated to him ...
... never presented itself , and I thought no more about it ; but the other day , at Bruxelles , I was talking over naval matters with Colonel Digby Murray , a yachter and a relative of the late Admiral Sir Henry Digby , and repeated to him ...
الصفحة 28
... never called a gun boat force into being . But so it is , our institutions are admirably contrived to prevent , or discover any gross malversation , but wonderfully ineffi- cient for action , so overloaded with checks and correctives ...
... never called a gun boat force into being . But so it is , our institutions are admirably contrived to prevent , or discover any gross malversation , but wonderfully ineffi- cient for action , so overloaded with checks and correctives ...
الصفحة 30
... never intended for locomotion , for she had not the form , nor for a floating battery , for she had not the room , but probably for a mud barge or a dredging machine , or it might be for the pivot gate of a floating dock . After ...
... never intended for locomotion , for she had not the form , nor for a floating battery , for she had not the room , but probably for a mud barge or a dredging machine , or it might be for the pivot gate of a floating dock . After ...
الصفحة 34
... never say a word about Master Bobby's death , and I pity him the most . Mistress will relieve herself by crying ; and Mr. Shandy by talking about it . " So our Yankee skipper told me his story through his nose , calling upon his mate to ...
... never say a word about Master Bobby's death , and I pity him the most . Mistress will relieve herself by crying ; and Mr. Shandy by talking about it . " So our Yankee skipper told me his story through his nose , calling upon his mate to ...
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الصفحة 169 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
الصفحة 149 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
الصفحة 240 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
الصفحة 99 - But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.
الصفحة 169 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy; Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows He sees it in his joy ; The youth, who daily further from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
الصفحة 119 - Par ma foi, il ya plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose, sans que j'en susse rien; et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela.
الصفحة 169 - THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
الصفحة 54 - The village maid steals through the shade, Her shepherd's suit to hear; To beauty shy, by lattice high, Sings high-born cavalier. The Star of Love, all stars above, Now reigns o'er earth and sky; And high and low the influence know — But where is County Guy?
الصفحة 155 - a should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.