Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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Page 74
... performing a religious duty . The Sunday , or Christian Sabbath , was appropriated to the first day of the week , in eternal remembrance of the resurrection of Christ ; but was not strictly solemnized as a period of cessa- tion from all ...
... performing a religious duty . The Sunday , or Christian Sabbath , was appropriated to the first day of the week , in eternal remembrance of the resurrection of Christ ; but was not strictly solemnized as a period of cessa- tion from all ...
Page 79
... performing , and not altogether unmindful of the ne- cessity of acquiring an appetite for dinner . He has , moreover , a lurking hope that his supplications may not have an unpropitious effect on the fate of his missing ship , the Good ...
... performing , and not altogether unmindful of the ne- cessity of acquiring an appetite for dinner . He has , moreover , a lurking hope that his supplications may not have an unpropitious effect on the fate of his missing ship , the Good ...
Page 80
... perform the essential offices of car- rying one little Prayer - book , and shutting the door of their pew . Whatever be the rank of those who practise this obtrusive and indecorous display , it is of the very essence of vulgar upstart ...
... perform the essential offices of car- rying one little Prayer - book , and shutting the door of their pew . Whatever be the rank of those who practise this obtrusive and indecorous display , it is of the very essence of vulgar upstart ...
Page 92
... performed the feat , could occa- sionally start up from an Ormskirk snuff - box , it might have a salutary effect in checking this propensity among our real and pseudo - fashionables . It was my intention to have written a dissertation ...
... performed the feat , could occa- sionally start up from an Ormskirk snuff - box , it might have a salutary effect in checking this propensity among our real and pseudo - fashionables . It was my intention to have written a dissertation ...
Page 120
... performing the office of the lungs - it has one series of vessels to receive and convey the alimental juices , answering to the arteries , veins , & c . of animals ; and a second set of trachea , wherein air is continually received and ...
... performing the office of the lungs - it has one series of vessels to receive and convey the alimental juices , answering to the arteries , veins , & c . of animals ; and a second set of trachea , wherein air is continually received and ...
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