Under the Blue SkySampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1871 - 344 Seiten |
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... shillings a day . ” " You have a wife and family ? " " A wife and five children . " " Are any of the children old enough to earn anything ? " " Not one . The oldest is only ten . " " And how can you feed them all , on two shillings a ...
... shillings a day . ” " You have a wife and family ? " " A wife and five children . " " Are any of the children old enough to earn anything ? " " Not one . The oldest is only ten . " " And how can you feed them all , on two shillings a ...
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... shillings to buy clothes with . They'll be able to read and write , and do a little cyphering , I sup- pose , by the time they are fourteen or fifteen . " " And your own clothes ; how do you manage ? " 66 Well , clothes last a good ...
... shillings to buy clothes with . They'll be able to read and write , and do a little cyphering , I sup- pose , by the time they are fourteen or fifteen . " " And your own clothes ; how do you manage ? " 66 Well , clothes last a good ...
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... shillings a week , and gardeners eighteen or twenty and their beer . If I did not earn three times as much as any farm - labourer , or , at least , twice as much as any gardener as ever mowed a lawn , or dug a potato , I should think my ...
... shillings a week , and gardeners eighteen or twenty and their beer . If I did not earn three times as much as any farm - labourer , or , at least , twice as much as any gardener as ever mowed a lawn , or dug a potato , I should think my ...
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... shilling for a bunch , which he forthwith presented to a young lady , and such a desire for forget - me- nots took ... shillings . " It was the best day's work I ever did in my life , " said Tom ; nor was this all . Pic - nic people ...
... shilling for a bunch , which he forthwith presented to a young lady , and such a desire for forget - me- nots took ... shillings . " It was the best day's work I ever did in my life , " said Tom ; nor was this all . Pic - nic people ...
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... shillings a week . His wife , who was a year older than him- self , was a domestic servant in the family of the village doctor , and had saved from her wages at the time that Plant became enamoured of her no less a sum than seven pounds ...
... shillings a week . His wife , who was a year older than him- self , was a domestic servant in the family of the village doctor , and had saved from her wages at the time that Plant became enamoured of her no less a sum than seven pounds ...
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Seite 234 - ... in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering
Seite 230 - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Seite 16 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Seite 293 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man ? Some say, the bee stings ; but I say, 'tis the bee's wax, for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since.
Seite 29 - For it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs, for universal ideas ; from which we have reason to imagine, that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words or any other general signs.
Seite 31 - ... accent, it means what has been thrown away ; pronounced with the grave circumflex, it means what is left of a fruit after it has been squeezed out ; pronounced with no accent, it means three ; pronounced with the ascending or interrogative accent, it means a box on the ear. Thus— Ba, ba, ba, ba, is said to mean, if properly pronounced, ' Three ladies gave a box on the ear to the favourite of the prince.
Seite 90 - ... by a free communication of the art and knowledge of it to others. All that I myself am able yet to do, is only to recommend to mankind the search of that felicity, which you instruct them how to find and to enjoy.
Seite 28 - Now, however much the frontiers of the animal kingdom have been pushed forward, so that at one time the line of demarcation between animal and man seemed to depend on a mere fold in the brain, there is one barrier which no one has yet ventured to touch — the barrier of language.
Seite 320 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own...
Seite 94 - Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge, of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can...