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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers. their skin , and held them down until the ... animal : In October 1843 , a shepherd had purchased at Falkirk , for his ... home - a distance of about seventeen miles . The poor animal , when a few miles on ...

Chambers's Information for the People

... sheet . Earl Stanhope constructed the press of iron , and that of a size ... character of a proof - press . THE CHAPEL . It is worth while to remark ... kingdoms far abroad , And cherished in the hallowed house of God ; From which we ...

Chamber's Information for the People: A Popular Encyclopedia

... skin . " The white tribes have been found chiefly in the high regions in the ... EYES . Dr. Prichard has endeavoured to class mankind , with a regard to the ... the eye and the skin and hair . The hue of the eye depends on a pigment or ...

Chambers's Information for the People

... PRINTING . - ENGRAVING . - LITHOGRAPHY . J. the forms ( or fastened - together types ). UMBER 90 . ORIGIN AND HISTORY ... cards for the amusement of Charles VI . of France . This was towards the ... OF HUMANITY-USEFUL RECEIPTS-THE TOILET, 90.

Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings

... rusty - nailed palings , which inclose old- fashioned family - houses and shrubberies , where the coachman in livery may be seen talking lazily to the gardener , but containing also sequestered spots where one might wander alone for ...

Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and Biographical of British Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings

... glass was over- turned upon their legs . Leaves containing the songs for the ... free souls among them . Nearly opposite to me sat a young poet , whose dark ... sword , and the whole company joined in one of their glorious songs , to a ...

Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings

... JOHN SUCKLING ( 1609-1641 ) .. .242 EDMUND WALLER ( 1605-1687 ) .. .269 Sir John Suckling's Campaign ( by Mennes ) ..242 On Love - On a Girdle .. ..270 Song , " Tis now since I sat down before ' . .243 On the Marriage of the Dwarfs ...

The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character

... What made this severity of cold the more remarkable , was the circumstance ... referred to , the damage inflicted on vegetation of all kinds was enormous . The ... the arbor vitæ , and some little evergreen oaks , were either killed ...

The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquties, in Connection with the Calendar ... Edited by R. Chambers

... What made this severity of cold the more remarkable , was the circumstance ... referred to , the damage inflicted on vegetation of all kinds was enormous . The ... the arbor vitæ , and some little evergreen oaks , were either killed ...

A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen ... Embellished with splendid and authentic portraits

... vices , follies , and weaknesses of men , not as a spectator , but as an actor , and he may be suspected of having ... follies , is prominent in his graphic descriptions ; and no one who reads his cool pictures of vice and sophism can ...

The Maids of Paradise

... maid of Alsace half the angels cried themselves ill with jealousy,” said I, looking up at her. “And the other half, monsieur?” “The sterner half started for Alsace in a body. They were controlled with difficulty, mademoiselle. That is ...

The Book of Days: In two vols. Vol. 1

... KING MAKER . The uses of the rush in domestic economy are worth time exceeding thirty - threc entire days , for three notice . Rush - lights , or candles with rush wicks , are shillings . According to ... KING MAKER . THE BOOK OF DAYS. 507.

The Book of Days: In two vols. Vol. 1

... spade , holding almond blossoms and mark is , It comes in like a lion , and ... David , archbishop of Caerleon , patron of Wales , Swibert , of ... BOOK OF DAYS . RABELAIS . a. 315 Sir Rowland Hill, 90 Execution of Charles I St David ...

The book of days, a miscellany of popular antiquities

... goddess of fecundity . But we are met on the other hand by the fact that amongst the Brahmins of India a like super- stitious aversion to Friday prevails . They say that on this day no business must be com- menced . ' * And herein is ...

The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquties, in Connection with the Calendar ... Edited by R. Chambers

... lottery system were occa- servatives that nature has granted to mankind . THE BOOK OF DAYS . JANUARY 11 . LOTTERIES . LOTTERIES . Sir Hans Sloane was noted for his hospitality , but there were three things he never had at his table ...

Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings

... rusty - nailed palings , which , inclose old- fashioned family - houses and shrubberies , where the coachman in livery may be seen talking lazily to the gardener , but containing also sequestered spots where one might wander alone for ...

Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times

... Sheet and a Flowing Sea . A wet sheet and a flowing sea , A wind that ... me the snoring breeze , And white waves heaving high ; And white waves ... music , mariners , The wind is piping loud ; The wind is piping loud , my boys , The ...

Cyclopœdia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earlist to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...

... sweeter than roses- Sweet were the kisses that she gave to me . It was nae my wee thing , it was nae my ain thing , It was nae my true love ye met by the tree : Proud is her leal heart , and modest her nature , She never loved ony till ...

Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History

... Sheet and a Flowing Sea . A wet sheet and a flowing sea , A wind that ... me the snoring breeze , And white waves heaving high ; And white waves ... music , mariners , The wind is piping loud ; The wind is piping loud , my boys , The ...

Chamber's Cyclopaedia of English Literature

... dauntless soul . She perceived , however , in all the inmates who bore their hands on their heart , a little singularity , not much to her taste . As she was emerging from one of the abysses , Eblis stood forth to her view ; but ...

Cyclopedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time...

... Sheet and a Flowing Sea . A wet sheet and a flowing sea , A wind that ... me the snoring breeze , And white waves heaving high ; And white waves ... music , mariners , The wind is piping loud ; The wind is piping loud , my boys , The ...

Cyclopaedia of English Literature ... Ed. by Robert Chambers: A History, Critical And Biographical, Of British Authors, From The Earliest To The Present Times. 2

... sweeter than roses- Sweet were the kisses that she gave to me . It was nae my wee thing , it was nae my ain thing , It was nae my true love ye met by the tree : Proud is her leal heart , and modest her nature , She never loved ony till ...

Cyclopaedia of English Literature: Sixth period from 1727-1780. Poets ; Scottish poets ; tragic dramatists ; Comic dramatists ; Periodical essayists ; Novelists ; Historians ; Metaphysical writers ; Writers in divinity ; Miscellaneous writers

... sweeter than roses- Sweet were the kisses that she gave to me . It was nae my wee thing , it was nae my ain thing , It was nae my true love ye met by the tree : Proud is her leal heart , and modest her nature , She never loved ony till ...

The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character

... Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character Robert Chambers. OCTOBER 18 . | THE BOOK OF DAYS . OCTOBER 19 . THE LAST LOTTERY IN ENGLAND . fretful mandate to the mayor of London , and the justices of Kent , Sussex , Surrey , and ...

The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character

... Mark's Eve , 550 Lord Howe's Victory of the 1st of Cromwell's Baptismal ... Grand Master of the Templars , 404 Emblematic Vignette : May , 565 Autograph : Pedro the ... Tailors ' Arbour , Shrewsbury , 705 The Shoemakers ' Arbour ,. The ...

The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character

... sheet of certain size . The number of copies of this sheet depended on the ... sea , where there is usually abundance of rabbits . One of the troubles of ... 7th century . St Adrian , abbot at Canterbury , 710. St Brithwald , archbishop ...

Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time

... sea , A wind that follows fast , And fills the white and rustling sail , And bends the gallant mast ; And bends the gallant mast , my boys , While , like the eagle free ... heart in love's dear bands , And nane can do't but Nanie O. In ...

Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times

... chamber to chamber , hall to hall , and gallery to gallery , all without ... dauntless soul . She perceived , however , in all the inmates who bore their ... full effulgence of his infernal majesty , she preserved her countenance ...

Cyclopoedia of English Literature: A History Critical and Biographical of British Authors from the Earliest to the Present Times

... chamber to chamber , hall to hall , and gallery to gallery , all without ... dauntless soul . She perceived , however , in all the inmates who bore their ... full effulgence of his infernal majesty , she preserved her countenance ...

Cyclopaedia of English Literature: Vol. II

... sweeter than roses- Sweet were the kisses that she gave to me . ' ' It was nae my wee thing , it was nae my ain thing , It was nae my true love ye met by the tree : Proud is her leal heart , and modest her nature , She never loved ony ...

Cyclopædia of English Literature; a History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times. Edited by R. Chambers

... chamber to chamber , hall to hall , and gallery to gallery , all without ... dauntless soul . She perceived , however , in all the inmates who bore their ... full effulgence of his infernal majesty , she preserved her countenance ...

Parody: The Art that Plays with Art

... Screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí . Dir . Luis Buñuel . The Internet Archive . Downloadable MOV file . Web ... The Big Lebowski . Screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen . Gramercy Pictures , 1998 . Film . • Fargo . Screenplay by ...

Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical of British Authors with Specimens of Their Writings

... glass was over- turned upon their legs . Leaves containing the songs for the ... free souls among them . Nearly opposite to me sat a young poet , whose dark ... sword , and the whole company joined in one of their glorious songs , to a ...

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