The Saturday Magazine, Volume 12J. W. Parker, 1838 - Periodicals |
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... distance from London . Each visit cost Cecil two or three thousand pounds- a large sum in those days ; the Queen staying with him " at his lordship's charge , " sometimes three weeks or a month , or six weeks together . Sometimes she ...
... distance from London . Each visit cost Cecil two or three thousand pounds- a large sum in those days ; the Queen staying with him " at his lordship's charge , " sometimes three weeks or a month , or six weeks together . Sometimes she ...
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... distance from London.graphy as having every probability against it . Each visit cost Cecil two or three thousand pounds- a large sum in those days ; the Queen staying with him " at his lordship's charge , " sometimes three weeks or a ...
... distance from London.graphy as having every probability against it . Each visit cost Cecil two or three thousand pounds- a large sum in those days ; the Queen staying with him " at his lordship's charge , " sometimes three weeks or a ...
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... distance of a single pace . We should be deprived of the music of the sea , the minstrelsy of the woods , of all the artificial combinations of sweet sounds , and of the facinating tones of the human voice itself . We might make our ...
... distance of a single pace . We should be deprived of the music of the sea , the minstrelsy of the woods , of all the artificial combinations of sweet sounds , and of the facinating tones of the human voice itself . We might make our ...
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... distance through the wet grass . One instance of this occurs in Dr. HASTING'S Natural History of Worcestershire . I will here mention a curious confirmation of the opinion in favour of the overland migration of Eels . A relative of the ...
... distance through the wet grass . One instance of this occurs in Dr. HASTING'S Natural History of Worcestershire . I will here mention a curious confirmation of the opinion in favour of the overland migration of Eels . A relative of the ...
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... distance from each other , returning to a basket placed at a yard distance also from the first stone , one hundred times . It is evident , that to pick up the first stone , and put it into the basket , the person must walk two yards ...
... distance from each other , returning to a basket placed at a yard distance also from the first stone , one hundred times . It is evident , that to pick up the first stone , and put it into the basket , the person must walk two yards ...
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Page 141 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near...
Page 179 - But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea : and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Page 157 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 30 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 107 - And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded ; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants ; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
Page 106 - And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded : and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Page 179 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
Page 227 - And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Page 58 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 178 - And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness...