The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Tom 17J. Limbird, 1831 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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Strona xiii
... manner he observes the strict regime , so fantastical to a stranger , of causing counsel to be shouted for from without , although they are actually present ; and he adds to the oddness of this custom by receiving them with a most im ...
... manner he observes the strict regime , so fantastical to a stranger , of causing counsel to be shouted for from without , although they are actually present ; and he adds to the oddness of this custom by receiving them with a most im ...
Strona xiv
... manner of the Chinese figures , which are hawked by the Italian toy - venders . Had I been told that the head of the house of Newry was a dancing - master , who had not yet learned the present modes , I should certainly have believed ...
... manner of the Chinese figures , which are hawked by the Italian toy - venders . Had I been told that the head of the house of Newry was a dancing - master , who had not yet learned the present modes , I should certainly have believed ...
Strona xvi
... manner of saying it . As a lawyer , he has not hitherto been remarkably suc- cessful . He is not profound in cases and reports , nor does he take much in- terest in the peculiar features of a particular cause , or show much adroitness ...
... manner of saying it . As a lawyer , he has not hitherto been remarkably suc- cessful . He is not profound in cases and reports , nor does he take much in- terest in the peculiar features of a particular cause , or show much adroitness ...
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... manner in which John Bunyan puts the adventures of his pil grim before us . Two circumstances alone strike us as trenching somewhat on the manner of him of Elstow : the one is where the guide awakens some sluggish pilgrims , whom he ...
... manner in which John Bunyan puts the adventures of his pil grim before us . Two circumstances alone strike us as trenching somewhat on the manner of him of Elstow : the one is where the guide awakens some sluggish pilgrims , whom he ...
Strona 14
... manner , and which were in themselves perfectly satisfactory , as he said , to the meanest capacity ; " a saying with which it might have been perfectly safe to agree . Love . What does Sterne say ? That love is no more made by talking ...
... manner , and which were in themselves perfectly satisfactory , as he said , to the meanest capacity ; " a saying with which it might have been perfectly safe to agree . Love . What does Sterne say ? That love is no more made by talking ...
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