Hogg's Weekly Instructor, Volumes 3-4J. Hogg, 1846 |
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... gave a cold and cheerless aspect to our journals and maga- times , replied - In point of tendency , I should class her zines , besides that it could scarcely fail to foster the delu- writings among the most irreligious I ever read . Not ...
... gave a cold and cheerless aspect to our journals and maga- times , replied - In point of tendency , I should class her zines , besides that it could scarcely fail to foster the delu- writings among the most irreligious I ever read . Not ...
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... gave him part of a Latin poem to translate , which , after a short retirement , was executed to his entire satisfaction . The patronage of the sheriff assisted him to obtain the vacant situation of usher in the grammar school of ...
... gave him part of a Latin poem to translate , which , after a short retirement , was executed to his entire satisfaction . The patronage of the sheriff assisted him to obtain the vacant situation of usher in the grammar school of ...
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... gave a great additional impetus to speculation , as the business done in these exchanges was almost wholly of a gambling nature . The brokers circulated daily printed lists of the prices of shares throughout the country , wherein the ...
... gave a great additional impetus to speculation , as the business done in these exchanges was almost wholly of a gambling nature . The brokers circulated daily printed lists of the prices of shares throughout the country , wherein the ...
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... gave promise of that power which it attained in after - years . Emancipated from the dominion of the teacher , and no longer chained to the tasks of the school , she began to transcribe her thoughts , and to receive the laudations of ...
... gave promise of that power which it attained in after - years . Emancipated from the dominion of the teacher , and no longer chained to the tasks of the school , she began to transcribe her thoughts , and to receive the laudations of ...
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... gave a colour of truth to the aspersions which had been cast upon her . None but her immediate ac- quaintances could obtain explanations of her motives and conduct , while her name might be spoken in scorn and affected pity in every ...
... gave a colour of truth to the aspersions which had been cast upon her . None but her immediate ac- quaintances could obtain explanations of her motives and conduct , while her name might be spoken in scorn and affected pity in every ...
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Página 180 - tis much less To make our fortune than our happiness : That happiness which great ones often see, With rage and wonder, in a low degree, Themselves unblessed. The poor are only poor; But what are they who droop amid their store ? Nothing is meaner than a wretch of state.
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Página 140 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirL — Coffins stood round, like open presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses;.