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... returned with a bundle of spoons in time for dinner . Again - at Hume Castle , in Berwickshire , the Earl of Home had one night given his footman a commission to proceed to Edin- burgh - thirty - five miles off - in order to deliver a ...
... returned with a bundle of spoons in time for dinner . Again - at Hume Castle , in Berwickshire , the Earl of Home had one night given his footman a commission to proceed to Edin- burgh - thirty - five miles off - in order to deliver a ...
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... returning , with a suitable resting - time at each to his poor fatigued horse , which had perhaps not less than five or six hundredweight of goods to drag along . The road originally was among the most perilous in the whole country ; a ...
... returning , with a suitable resting - time at each to his poor fatigued horse , which had perhaps not less than five or six hundredweight of goods to drag along . The road originally was among the most perilous in the whole country ; a ...
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... returning to their homes . Many had come from St Maurice , a town beyond Martigny . Their head - dress contrasted most ludicrously with the coarse and common gown , and kerchief pinned across the bosom : it consists of a narrow - rimmed ...
... returning to their homes . Many had come from St Maurice , a town beyond Martigny . Their head - dress contrasted most ludicrously with the coarse and common gown , and kerchief pinned across the bosom : it consists of a narrow - rimmed ...
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... returning , with a suitable resting - time at each to his poor fatigued horse , which had perhaps not less than five or six hundredweight of goods to drag along . The road originally was among the most perilous in the whole country ; a ...
... returning , with a suitable resting - time at each to his poor fatigued horse , which had perhaps not less than five or six hundredweight of goods to drag along . The road originally was among the most perilous in the whole country ; a ...
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... returning to their homes . Many had come from St Maurice , a town beyond Martigny . head - dress contrasted most ludicrously with the coarse and common gown , and kerchief pinned across the bosom it consists of a narrow - rimmed black ...
... returning to their homes . Many had come from St Maurice , a town beyond Martigny . head - dress contrasted most ludicrously with the coarse and common gown , and kerchief pinned across the bosom it consists of a narrow - rimmed black ...
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Page 140 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 139 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise...
Page 139 - Or vice ; who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise ; Nor rules of state, but rules of good: Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend...
Page 90 - ... a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants from considerable distances visit them in the night, with guns, clubs, long poles, pots of sulphur, and various other engines of destruction. In a few hours they fill many sacks, and load their horses with them. By the Indians, a Pigeon roost, or breeding place, is considered an important source of national profit and dependence for that season; and all their active ingenuity is exercised on the occasion.
Page 184 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail.
Page 90 - I was astonished at their appearance. They were flying with great steadiness and rapidity at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep; and so close together that could shot have reached them, one discharge could not have failed of bringing down several individuals. From right to left, as far as the eye could reach, the breadth of this vast procession extended, seeming everywhere equally crowded.
Page 91 - I sat for more than an hour, but instead of a diminution of this prodigious procession, it seemed rather to increase both in numbers and rapidity; and anxious to reach Frankfort before night, I rose and went on. About four o'clock in the afternoon I crossed the Kentucky River, at the town of Frankfort, at which time the living torrent above my head seemed as numerous and as extensive as ever. Long after this I observed them in large bodies, that continued to pass for six or eight minutes, and these...
Page 14 - Proud poverty, that tinsel bravery wears ! And, like a rainbow, painted tears ! Be prudent, and the shore in prospect keep ; In a weak boat trust not the deep ; Plac'd beneath envy, above envying rise | Pity great men, great things despise.
Page 27 - He helped in the building of the new structure of Lincoln's Inn, when, having a trowel in his hand, he had a book in his pocket.
Page 94 - My first view of it was about a fortnight subsequent to the period when they had made choice of it, and I arrived there nearly two hours before sunset. Few Pigeons were then to be seen, but a great number of persons, with horses and wagons, guns and ammunition, had already established encampments on the borders. Two farmers from the vicinity of...