Old Leaves: Gathered from Household WordsChapman and Hall, 1860 - 437 pàgines |
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... OLD LADY IN THREADNEEDLE - STREET 9. MODERN SCIENCE OF THIEF - TAKING 1 15 23 35 43 54 • 65 75 1 87 10. REVIEW OF A POPULAR PUBLICATION . 96 11. RAILWAY WONDERS OF LAST YEAR . . 105 12. TWO CHAPTERS ON BANK - NOTE FORGERIES V . 109 13 ...
... OLD LADY IN THREADNEEDLE - STREET 9. MODERN SCIENCE OF THIEF - TAKING 1 15 23 35 43 54 • 65 75 1 87 10. REVIEW OF A POPULAR PUBLICATION . 96 11. RAILWAY WONDERS OF LAST YEAR . . 105 12. TWO CHAPTERS ON BANK - NOTE FORGERIES V . 109 13 ...
Pàgina 35
... Lady had suffered some derogation . Yet an equal abasement daily takes place without exciting especial wonder . The subordinates of the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench ( the Premier Coroner of all Eng- land ) habitually preside ...
... Lady had suffered some derogation . Yet an equal abasement daily takes place without exciting especial wonder . The subordinates of the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench ( the Premier Coroner of all Eng- land ) habitually preside ...
Pàgina 39
... lady , " tend to impress the minds of the jury , witnesses , or spectators , with that awe for the supremacy of the Law which a court of justice is expected to inspire . The circumstances as detailed by the witnesses are already ...
... lady , " tend to impress the minds of the jury , witnesses , or spectators , with that awe for the supremacy of the Law which a court of justice is expected to inspire . The circumstances as detailed by the witnesses are already ...
Pàgina 55
... lady's money ; nothing whatever , in short , calculated to sustain the ancient reputation of Bil- lingsgate . We sauntered down to the dumb - barge which forms a tem- porary landing - place while a better one is being built . There we ...
... lady's money ; nothing whatever , in short , calculated to sustain the ancient reputation of Bil- lingsgate . We sauntered down to the dumb - barge which forms a tem- porary landing - place while a better one is being built . There we ...
Pàgina 74
... this country , upon this my report of it , you must , to succeed , attend to my warn- ings as to drinking and gambling , and to my precautions against climate . " VIII . THE OLD LADY IN THREADNEEDLE - STREET . $ 74 OLD LEAVES .
... this country , upon this my report of it , you must , to succeed , attend to my warn- ings as to drinking and gambling , and to my precautions against climate . " VIII . THE OLD LADY IN THREADNEEDLE - STREET . $ 74 OLD LEAVES .
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 262 - is Freedom's chosen station; Here peals the people's voice, nor can entomb it Racks, prisons, inquisitions ; resurrection Awaits it, each new meeting or election.
Pàgina 162 - ... a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind: which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm. him at one time with the unbounded extent of...
Pàgina 66 - On every side stood buildings of all kinds, begun or half-finished, and the greater part of them mere canvas sheds, open in front, and covered with all kinds of signs, in all languages. Great quantities of goods were piled up in the open air, for want of a place to store them. The streets were full of people, hurrying to and fro, and of as diverse and bizarre a character as the houses...
Pàgina 148 - I felt lu as a botanist, and felt myself rewarded : a gigantic leaf from five to six feet in diameter, salver-shaped, with a broad rim ; of a light green above, and a vivid crimson below, resting upon the water. Quite in character with the wonderful leaf was the luxuriant flower, consisting of many hundred petals, passing in alternate tints from pure white to rose and pink. The smooth water was covered with the blossoms, and as I rowed from one to the other I always observed something new to admire.
Pàgina 104 - It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense.
Pàgina 161 - Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniencies of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world...
Pàgina 33 - Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood ! EPIGRAM.
Pàgina 71 - steward!" from all parts of the room — the word "waiter" is not considered sufficiently respectful, seeing that the waiter may have been a lawyer or a merchant's clerk a few months before.
Pàgina 195 - The recent assumption of certain ecclesiastical titles, conferred by a foreign power, has excited strong feelings in this country, and large bodies of my subjects have presented addresses to me, expressing attachment to the throne, and praying that such assumptions should be resisted. I have assured them...
Pàgina 61 - ... the parent animals are thus brought within the reach of man, who, but for the action of this law, would be deprived of many of those species most valuable to him as food. For the mackerel dispersed over the immense surface of the deep, no effective fishery could be carried on ; but, approaching the shore as they do from all directions, and roving along the coast collected in immense shoals, millions are caught, which yet form but a very small portion compared with the myriads that escape.