Evenings at Home, Or The Juvenile Budget Opened: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons, Τόμοι 3-4

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by T.C. Cushing, 1799

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Σελίδα 96 - I wish I had known that, for he led me a long chase, often over shoes in water. However, it was the cause of my falling in with an old man and a boy who were cutting and piling up turf for fuel, and I had a good deal of talk with them about the manner of preparing the turf, and the price it sells at.
Σελίδα 96 - ... so distinctly one might almost fancy they spoke. I thought I should have caught one of them, for he flew as if one of his wings was broken, and often tumbled close to the ground; but, as I came near, he always made a shift to get away.
Σελίδα 145 - So much the better for you. Few men can say as much. But, pray, what were you doing in the field ? B.
Σελίδα 107 - But so it is : one man walks through the world with his eyes open, and another with them shut ; and upon this difference depends all the superiority of knowledge the one acquires above the other.
Σελίδα 101 - I saw a man in a boat, who was catching eels in an odd way. He had a long pole, with broad iron prongs at the end, just like Neptune's trident, only there were five, instead of three. This he pushed straight down among the mud, in the deepest parts of the river, and fetched up the eels sticking between the prongs.
Σελίδα 99 - There were a great many large dragon-flies all about the stream. I caught one of the finest, and have got him here in a leaf. But how I longed to catch a bird that I saw hovering over the water, and every now and then darting down into it ! It was all over a mixture of the most beautiful green and blue, with some orange color.
Σελίδα 148 - What do you do when it rains ? B. If it rams very hard, I get under the hedge till it is over. Mr L. What do you do when you are hungry before it is time to go home ? B. I sometimes eat a raw turnip. Mr L.
Σελίδα 157 - She advanced smiling to the girl, and with a familiar air thus addressed her : — " My dearest Melissa, I am a kind genius, who have watched you from your birth, and have joyfully beheld all your beauties expand, till at length they have rendered you a companion worthy of me. See what I have brought you. This dress and this ticket will give you free access to all the ravishing delights of my palace.
Σελίδα 106 - It is an optical deception, depending upon principles which I cannot well explain to you till you know more of that branch of science. But what a number of new ideas this afternoon's walk has afforded you! I do not wonder that you found it amusing; it has been very instructive, too. Did you see nothing of all these sights, Robert?
Σελίδα 95 - There was a flock of lapwings upon a marshy part of the heath, that amused me much. As I came near them, some of them kept flying round and round just over my head, and crying pewit so distinctly, one might almost fancy they spoke.

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