Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 2Douglas Jerrold Punch Office, 1845 - English periodicals Contains Douglas Jerrold's novel St. Giles and St. James (selected issues, no. 1-29), illustrated by Leech. |
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... land ; and the time for snatching its next - door neighbours from starvation and the grave is either long protracted or never comes . Thus it was that the South - Sea Islanders were converted , and two of the South African tribes made ...
... land ; and the time for snatching its next - door neighbours from starvation and the grave is either long protracted or never comes . Thus it was that the South - Sea Islanders were converted , and two of the South African tribes made ...
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... lands was he ; “ For I have corn in every barn , Now worth a hundredfold to me . " Amongst the poor a famine raged ; They gave whate'er they had To buy dear bread ; when all was gone , The poorest died , or else ran mad . But Bruscolo ...
... lands was he ; “ For I have corn in every barn , Now worth a hundredfold to me . " Amongst the poor a famine raged ; They gave whate'er they had To buy dear bread ; when all was gone , The poorest died , or else ran mad . But Bruscolo ...
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... lands , some cheap food grant , And " heaven will bless your store . " But now the poor Rat reached the ground : " Devil and beast ! " he cried , " God hath cast down the statue proud Of golden Fratricide ! " " Thou can'st give nothing ...
... lands , some cheap food grant , And " heaven will bless your store . " But now the poor Rat reached the ground : " Devil and beast ! " he cried , " God hath cast down the statue proud Of golden Fratricide ! " " Thou can'st give nothing ...
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... land of his father's adoption , they should recognise the only legitimate heir to the English throne . There , as it seems to me , the Saxon jerkin is left to rub more freely against the Norman hauberk . There , it will not be too much ...
... land of his father's adoption , they should recognise the only legitimate heir to the English throne . There , as it seems to me , the Saxon jerkin is left to rub more freely against the Norman hauberk . There , it will not be too much ...
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... lands . Then , in memorable phrase , which proves that the legislation of the Conqueror had not been that curse which it is called by many of the chroniclers , he gave a pledge to the nation at large that he would levy no moneyage which ...
... lands . Then , in memorable phrase , which proves that the legislation of the Conqueror had not been that curse which it is called by many of the chroniclers , he gave a pledge to the nation at large that he would levy no moneyage which ...
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Page 261 - And busily gan for the soules pray Of them that gave him <25> wherewith to scholay* Of study took he moste care and heed. Not one word spake he more than was need; And that was said in form and reverence, And short and quick, and full of high sentence. Sounding in moral virtue was his speech, And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.
Page 473 - I counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little tube of about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand, there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73£ feet.
Page 91 - The advantage of receiving the earliest intelligence, and of conveying their orders with celerity induced the emperors to establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were everywhere erected at the distance only of five or six miles; each of them was constantly provided with forty horses, and, by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads.
Page 70 - Yea, it not only maketh things past, present; but enableth one to make a rational conjecture of things to come. For this world affordeth no new accidents, but in the same sense wherein we call it a new moon, which is the old one in another shape, and yet no other than what hath been formerly. Old actions return again, furbished over with some new and different circumstances.
Page 365 - Be it known, and without doubt unto you, that we all are, and every one of us, obedient subjects to the Church of God, and to the Pope of Rome, and to every godly Christian, to love every one in his degree in perfect charity, and to help every one of them, by word and deed, to...
Page 90 - All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which issuing from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire.
Page 568 - Jones describes an oriental MS. in which the name of Mohammed was fancifully adorned with a garland of tulips and carnations, painted in the brightest colours. The favourite works of the Persians are written on fine silky paper, the ground of which is often powdered with gold or silver dust ; the leaves are frequently illuminated, and the whole book is sometimes perfumed with essence of roses or sandal wood. The Romans had several sorts of paper...
Page 511 - SirW.Follett,who again used his decaying strength the hour before judgment was passed upon us in the Bench, pointed to me with an austere look, and said, ' This man is the chief author of the violence that occurred, and I conjure your lordship to pass a severe sentence on Cooper.
Page 70 - ought to ' remember the faith we have pledged to your brother, Duke ' Robert ; he has received our oath of homage, and absent or ' present he has a right to this money.
Page 279 - It is not possible, in a brief notice like the present, to do more than intimate the kind of excellence of a book of this nature. It is a profound and beautiful dissertation, and must be diligently studied to be comprehended. After all the innumerable efforts that the present age has been some time making to cut a Royal road to everything, it is beginning to find that what sometimes seems the longest way...