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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... Readers are asked to protect Library books from rain , etc. Any volumes which are lost , defaced with notes , or otherwise damaged , may have to be replaced by the Reader responsible . DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE . VOL . II . JULY ...
... Readers are asked to protect Library books from rain , etc. Any volumes which are lost , defaced with notes , or otherwise damaged , may have to be replaced by the Reader responsible . DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE . VOL . II . JULY ...
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... reader may remember , was somewhat abruptly discussed by the stranger horse- man in the past chapter . It was here , at Dovesnest , that the thrifty money - seller kept his young wife close - far away , and safe , as he thought , from ...
... reader may remember , was somewhat abruptly discussed by the stranger horse- man in the past chapter . It was here , at Dovesnest , that the thrifty money - seller kept his young wife close - far away , and safe , as he thought , from ...
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... reader , you wanted to buy one single egg , would you purchase that one egg of the poor , rascal dealer , who had only one egg to sell ? Answer us , truly . Behold the modest tradesman . He stands shrinkingly , with one leg drawn up ...
... reader , you wanted to buy one single egg , would you purchase that one egg of the poor , rascal dealer , who had only one egg to sell ? Answer us , truly . Behold the modest tradesman . He stands shrinkingly , with one leg drawn up ...
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... reader , have we at an important moment - if this small toy of a history may be allowed to have important moments -thus have we paused to sketch the owner of Dovesnest ; to digress on his bachelor confidence , and his married modesty ...
... reader , have we at an important moment - if this small toy of a history may be allowed to have important moments -thus have we paused to sketch the owner of Dovesnest ; to digress on his bachelor confidence , and his married modesty ...
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... reader , why , if he wants a tale of situation - that is , a story wherein people are brought bodily together , sometimes that they may only knock one another down , and then separate - why , in such case , the reader had better drop ...
... reader , why , if he wants a tale of situation - that is , a story wherein people are brought bodily together , sometimes that they may only knock one another down , and then separate - why , in such case , the reader had better drop ...
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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...
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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.
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