The Polar star, being a continuation of 'The Extractor', of entertainment and popular science, Volume 51830 |
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... look at an En- glish child ; I am so reminded of my own , whom I have not seen for a long time . " " Our next quotation depicts strongly the change from twenty to forty ; but it is a change for the worse , when we learn to ridicule our ...
... look at an En- glish child ; I am so reminded of my own , whom I have not seen for a long time . " " Our next quotation depicts strongly the change from twenty to forty ; but it is a change for the worse , when we learn to ridicule our ...
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... look incredulous , my lord , ' said the doctor . No , not at all , replied Lord Byron ; where is T. ? I dare say he saw the same thing . ' 999 " When they were disputing about the motto for the Greek telegraph ( the first having given ...
... look incredulous , my lord , ' said the doctor . No , not at all , replied Lord Byron ; where is T. ? I dare say he saw the same thing . ' 999 " When they were disputing about the motto for the Greek telegraph ( the first having given ...
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... look upon her now with the same confidence they did before . Is the metropolitan stage never to redeem itself from the opprobrium of being almost certain perdition to a woman ? Are high female talents , when exerted for the ...
... look upon her now with the same confidence they did before . Is the metropolitan stage never to redeem itself from the opprobrium of being almost certain perdition to a woman ? Are high female talents , when exerted for the ...
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... look miserable , and his kind master relent - he was roused * even frenzy , and back to Scotland he came . His reception from his father may easily be conceived . He had wished to conceal from the world the existence of this child of ...
... look miserable , and his kind master relent - he was roused * even frenzy , and back to Scotland he came . His reception from his father may easily be conceived . He had wished to conceal from the world the existence of this child of ...
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... look . No , ' I said , it was in the year 1800 , when I was only eighteen years of age . ' Why , ' said he , I thought you were sixty at least . ' Again I asked him to indulge me , but he peremptorily refused . 1 rushed from his ...
... look . No , ' I said , it was in the year 1800 , when I was only eighteen years of age . ' Why , ' said he , I thought you were sixty at least . ' Again I asked him to indulge me , but he peremptorily refused . 1 rushed from his ...
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Page 268 - Tis from high life high characters are drawn : A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more every thing.
Page 233 - Her lot is on you — to be found untired, Watching the stars out by the bed of pain, With a pale cheek, and yet a brow inspired, And a true heart of hope, though hope be vain ; Meekly to bear with wrong, to cheer decay, And, oh ! to love through all things. Therefore pray...
Page 107 - Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Page 14 - In morality, I prefer Confucius to the Ten Commandments, and Socrates to St Paul, though the two latter agree in their opinion of marriage. In religion, I favour the Catholic emancipation, but do not acknowledge the Pope ; and I have refused to take the Sacrament, because I do not think eating bread or drinking wine from the hand of an earthly vicar will make me an inheritor of heaven. I hold virtue in general, or the virtues severally, to be only in the disposition, each a feeling, not a principle.*...
Page 14 - I am no bigot to infidelity, and did not expect that, because I doubted the immortality of man, I should be charged with denying the existence of a God. It was the comparative insignificance of ourselves and our world, when placed in comparison with the mighty whole, of which it is an atom, that first led me to imagine that our pretensions to eternity might be overrated.
Page 116 - either thou or I must be blind.' Just then one of the accomplices came up. ' Praised be the gods,' said this second rogue, ' that I have been saved the trouble of going to the market for a sheep ! This is such a sheep as I wanted. For how much wilt thou sell it ? ' When the Brahmin heard this, his mind waved to and fro, like one swinging in the air at a holy festival. ' Sir/ said he to the new comer, ' take heed what thou dost ; this is no sheep, but an unclean cur.
Page 252 - Treason,' cried the speaker — ' Treason, treason !' echoed from every part of the house. It was one of those trying moments which is decisive of character.
Page 30 - Rome, or shall profess the popish religion, or shall marry a papist, shall be excluded and be for ever incapable to inherit, possess or enjoy the crown and government of this realm and Ireland and the dominions thereunto belonging or any part of the same, or to have, use or exercise any regal power, authority or jurisdiction within the same; and in all and every such case or cases the people of these realms shall be and are hereby absolved of their allegiance...
Page 37 - ... lifeless spectator of the mischiefs which threaten us, unconscious of the dangers which surround us, and indifferent to the consequences which may follow. Hanover is lost — England is menaced with invasion — Ireland is in rebellion — Europe is at the foot of France. At such a moment the Prince of Wales, yielding to none of your servants in zeal and...