The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 9J. Limbird, 1827 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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... interest- ing and important to every lover of litera- ture and science must prove acceptable , we give on the first page of our new vo- lume the above spirited engraving of the Top of the Great Pyramid of Geeza . The Pyramids of Egypt ...
... interest- ing and important to every lover of litera- ture and science must prove acceptable , we give on the first page of our new vo- lume the above spirited engraving of the Top of the Great Pyramid of Geeza . The Pyramids of Egypt ...
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... interest- ing survey of past events . What a crowd of impressive images would fix our atten- tion , awaken our astonishment , soften us to grief , or elevate us to joy , should this retrospection not only include the circle in which we ...
... interest- ing survey of past events . What a crowd of impressive images would fix our atten- tion , awaken our astonishment , soften us to grief , or elevate us to joy , should this retrospection not only include the circle in which we ...
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... interest had now become his - and of his own in- terest none had ever suspected him to be careless - yet he did certainly take a cer- tain sly pleasure in making an attack at once on her hoards and her habits , and forcing her into a ...
... interest had now become his - and of his own in- terest none had ever suspected him to be careless - yet he did certainly take a cer- tain sly pleasure in making an attack at once on her hoards and her habits , and forcing her into a ...
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... edifice , naturally tends to suggest reflections of a pleasing though melancholy nature , truly interest- ing , useful , and instructive . The long drawn aisles and dreary pensive vaults diffuse over the mind 18 THE MIRROR .
... edifice , naturally tends to suggest reflections of a pleasing though melancholy nature , truly interest- ing , useful , and instructive . The long drawn aisles and dreary pensive vaults diffuse over the mind 18 THE MIRROR .
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... interest by the nu- merous readers of the MIRROR . Other contributions have also been received which relate to the sad event which all classes of individuals so deeply deplore . In order , therefore , to meet the wishes of our friends ...
... interest by the nu- merous readers of the MIRROR . Other contributions have also been received which relate to the sad event which all classes of individuals so deeply deplore . In order , therefore , to meet the wishes of our friends ...
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