Tit-bits from All the Most Interesting Books, Periodicals and Newspapers in the World, المجلد 1George Newnes, 1881 |
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... London gentleman's " pro- end , and the room a very large one , Miss St. Leger ceedings . At length , tired out by these surmises , he left the inn and domiciled himself at a farmhouse had resolution sufficient to attempt her escape ...
... London gentleman's " pro- end , and the room a very large one , Miss St. Leger ceedings . At length , tired out by these surmises , he left the inn and domiciled himself at a farmhouse had resolution sufficient to attempt her escape ...
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... London to get his edict pushed through ; but this man of treachery One and blood had reached the end of his career . Carmichael , a base , drunken wretch , and a tool of Sharp's , had signalised himself by his cruelty and activity in ...
... London to get his edict pushed through ; but this man of treachery One and blood had reached the end of his career . Carmichael , a base , drunken wretch , and a tool of Sharp's , had signalised himself by his cruelty and activity in ...
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... London capitalists and rustic landowners to lend attractiveness by their names . The needy barrister professed affec- tion for a seat at the councils of boards , which seemed likely to bring him more profit than the law . Numbers of ...
... London capitalists and rustic landowners to lend attractiveness by their names . The needy barrister professed affec- tion for a seat at the councils of boards , which seemed likely to bring him more profit than the law . Numbers of ...
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... London . " The bet was taken , and in four or five days letters conveyed orders to all sorts of and but for the opportune arrival of Lord Broghill , his authority . The maiden heard him in speechless resistance of Clonmel , the ...
... London . " The bet was taken , and in four or five days letters conveyed orders to all sorts of and but for the opportune arrival of Lord Broghill , his authority . The maiden heard him in speechless resistance of Clonmel , the ...
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... London Bridge , in acceptance of the duke's request that he would meet him at that hour . " Say a quarter before five , " replied the duke , with a quiet smile . " I owe all I have achieved to being ready a quarter of an hour before it ...
... London Bridge , in acceptance of the duke's request that he would meet him at that hour . " Say a quarter before five , " replied the duke , with a quiet smile . " I owe all I have achieved to being ready a quarter of an hour before it ...
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الصفحة 1 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly...
الصفحة 10 - Woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ; In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot ; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy ax shall harm it not.
الصفحة 9 - Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find: Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want. If that one be prodigal, Bountiful they will him call, And with such-like flattering, 'Pity but he were a king...
الصفحة 9 - He that is thy friend indeed. He will help thee in thy need ; If thou sorrow, he will weep ; If thou wake, he cannot sleep : Thus of every grief in heart He with thee doth bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.
الصفحة 12 - But, if any man shall, by charging me with theatrical behaviour, imply, that I utter any sentiments but my own, I shall treat him as a calumniator, and a villain ; — nor shall any protection shelter him from the treatment he deserves.
الصفحة 15 - And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
الصفحة 1 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
الصفحة 6 - An awful abyss awaits his almost certain fall. He is faint with severe exertion, and trembling from the sudden view of the dreadful destruction to which he is exposed. His knife is worn half-way to the haft.
الصفحة 12 - The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult.
الصفحة 12 - But with our industry we must likewise be steady, settled, and careful, and oversee our own affairs with our own eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as Poor Richard says, I never saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be.