Sketches of ProgressSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1881 - 176 σελίδες |
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... least of the varied phases of every day life or more important affairs , may if not directly , yet remotely induce some degree of thought , which in the busy work of the age , we are apt unheedingly to over - look and wholly forget . As ...
... least of the varied phases of every day life or more important affairs , may if not directly , yet remotely induce some degree of thought , which in the busy work of the age , we are apt unheedingly to over - look and wholly forget . As ...
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... least to ruminate if not to dilate upon the difficult subject our title gives us . Nevertheless the danger thus lightly alluded to does not exist altogether in wild fancy , but is really one which has recently befallen several ...
... least to ruminate if not to dilate upon the difficult subject our title gives us . Nevertheless the danger thus lightly alluded to does not exist altogether in wild fancy , but is really one which has recently befallen several ...
Σελίδα 11
... least have unencumbered , calm water in which we may float and swim , or may be sink . Our title ' Progress ' we have said is a large one and we must content ourselves with merely sketching the subject . It involves not only advancement ...
... least have unencumbered , calm water in which we may float and swim , or may be sink . Our title ' Progress ' we have said is a large one and we must content ourselves with merely sketching the subject . It involves not only advancement ...
Σελίδα 12
... least a questionable plight , they turned their immediate attention to tailoring and millinery , and like our old schoolboy friend Robinson Crusoe , when on the desolate island he was left to his own resources , made themselves aprons ...
... least a questionable plight , they turned their immediate attention to tailoring and millinery , and like our old schoolboy friend Robinson Crusoe , when on the desolate island he was left to his own resources , made themselves aprons ...
Σελίδα 20
... least our hair stand on end ? What are we to say to it ? If as we are told Sir Walter Scott laughed at the idea of coal gas , and Dr. Chalmers , on account of his belief in it was put down by his own countrymen as " off his head ...
... least our hair stand on end ? What are we to say to it ? If as we are told Sir Walter Scott laughed at the idea of coal gas , and Dr. Chalmers , on account of his belief in it was put down by his own countrymen as " off his head ...
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Σελίδα 165 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision : and when the court was dismissed, went privily and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Σελίδα 141 - And here it is to be noted, that such Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth.
Σελίδα 163 - He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth. Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling ! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig.
Σελίδα 163 - ... the negligence of this unlucky young firebrand. Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip. He knew not what to think.
Σελίδα 162 - Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, who being fond of playing with fire, as younkers of his age commonly are, let some sparks escape into a bundle of straw, which kindling quickly, spread the conflagration over every part of their poor mansion, till it was reduced to ashes. Together with the cottage (a sorry antediluvian make-shift of a building, you may think it) what was of much more importance, a fine litter of new-farrowed pigs, no less than nine in number, perished.
Σελίδα 166 - Thus this custom of firing houses continued till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.
Σελίδα 166 - ... that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron. Roasting by the string, or spit, came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the most useful, and seemingly the most obvious arts, make their way among mankind.
Σελίδα 124 - But the constitutional government of this island is so admirably tempered and compounded, that nothing can endanger or hurt it, but destroying the equilibrium of power between one branch of the legislature and tho rest.
Σελίδα 164 - Eat, eat, eat the burnt pig, father, only taste, — O Lord," — with suchlike barbarous ejaculations, cramming all the while as if he would choke. Ho-ti trembled in every joint while he grasped the abominable thing, wavering whether he should not put his son to death for an unnatural young monster, when the crackling...
Σελίδα 165 - Evidence was given, the obnoxious food itself produced in court, and verdict about to be pronounced, when the foreman of the jury begged that some of the burnt pig, of which the culprits stood accused, might be handed into the box.