Knight's Penny Magazine, Volume 13Charles Knight, 1844 |
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Pagina 16
... tion as has puzzled geologists to explain how they got further towards the middle . The general inclination there . M. Agassiz assumes that when the whole of the glacier and its downward motion are the means Alpine district , except the ...
... tion as has puzzled geologists to explain how they got further towards the middle . The general inclination there . M. Agassiz assumes that when the whole of the glacier and its downward motion are the means Alpine district , except the ...
Pagina 26
... tion to the larger ones ; which , with the want of any decided masses of light and shadow distinguishing those sides of objects which are turned towards the light from such as are not so , prevents their producing the agreeable effect ...
... tion to the larger ones ; which , with the want of any decided masses of light and shadow distinguishing those sides of objects which are turned towards the light from such as are not so , prevents their producing the agreeable effect ...
Pagina 28
... tion of force in a forward direction , which would impel the trunk faster than the legs , and the latter could not keep pace with the trunk without great muscular labour , which would soon produce exhaustion , and the walker would ...
... tion of force in a forward direction , which would impel the trunk faster than the legs , and the latter could not keep pace with the trunk without great muscular labour , which would soon produce exhaustion , and the walker would ...
Pagina 37
... tion of all the fibres left uncombed , on account of the teeth of the comb not being able to reach it : and this , under the name of noyl or noil , is afterwards carded and spun into coarse woollen yarn . Dr. Cartwright , whose ...
... tion of all the fibres left uncombed , on account of the teeth of the comb not being able to reach it : and this , under the name of noyl or noil , is afterwards carded and spun into coarse woollen yarn . Dr. Cartwright , whose ...
Pagina 40
... tion of goods quite unknown to our earlier manufac- turers . But there is one material employed to which we hardly know where to assign a place , although it seems certainly to belong to woollens . This is shoddy , or woollen rags ...
... tion of goods quite unknown to our earlier manufac- turers . But there is one material employed to which we hardly know where to assign a place , although it seems certainly to belong to woollens . This is shoddy , or woollen rags ...
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Pagina 181 - And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
Pagina 10 - Though not a man of them knew wherefore; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared rout, to battle sounded; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. A wight he was whose very sight would Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood...
Pagina 11 - He ne'er gave quarter to any such. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting, was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack...
Pagina 31 - He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Pagina 61 - ... made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
Pagina 231 - No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a wellgoverned Angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Pagina 10 - His tawny beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and dye so like a tile, A sudden view it would beguile ; The upper part whereof was whey, The nether orange, mix'd with grey.
Pagina 11 - prentice to a brewer, Where this and more it did endure, But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. In th' holsters, at his saddle-bow, Two aged pistols he did stow, Aniong the surplus of such meat As in his hose he could not get : ' These would inveigle rats with th...
Pagina 31 - Free-will they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow. All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin.
Pagina 244 - Where joy, heart's ease, and comforts grow, You'd scorn proud towers, And seek them in these bowers, Where winds sometimes our woods perhaps may shake, But blustering care could never tempest make, Nor murmurs e'er come nigh us, Saving of fountains that glide by us.