Evenings at Home, Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the Instruction and Amusement of Young PersonsBaldwin, Cradock, and Joy, and R. Hunter, successor to J. Johnson, 1819 - Children |
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... master and mistress , and a nume- rous progeny of children of both sexes . Of these , part were educated at home under their parents ' care , and part were sent out to school . The house was sel- dom unprovided with visitors , the inti ...
... master and mistress , and a nume- rous progeny of children of both sexes . Of these , part were educated at home under their parents ' care , and part were sent out to school . The house was sel- dom unprovided with visitors , the inti ...
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... master , to skulk in deserts and caves , and wander from cottage to cottage . When they hear you are alive and in arms again , they will leave their fast- nesses , and flock to your standard . Alfred . I am impatient to meet them my ...
... master , to skulk in deserts and caves , and wander from cottage to cottage . When they hear you are alive and in arms again , they will leave their fast- nesses , and flock to your standard . Alfred . I am impatient to meet them my ...
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... master of fawning and buffoonery , is but ill qualified for a dependant , and will not be suffered even to pick up the crumbs that fall from the table . " ANIMALS , AND THEIR COUNTRIES . O'er Afric's sand the 102 THIRD EVENING .
... master of fawning and buffoonery , is but ill qualified for a dependant , and will not be suffered even to pick up the crumbs that fall from the table . " ANIMALS , AND THEIR COUNTRIES . O'er Afric's sand the 102 THIRD EVENING .
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... master . Oswald ( aside . ) I believe the sea will pay very little regard to his royal commands . Offa . See how fast the tide rises ! Oswald . The next wave will come up to the chair . It is folly to stay ; we shall be covered with ...
... master . Oswald ( aside . ) I believe the sea will pay very little regard to his royal commands . Offa . See how fast the tide rises ! Oswald . The next wave will come up to the chair . It is folly to stay ; we shall be covered with ...
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... master came into the room ; and seeing me with the remains of poor linnet . in my mouth , he ran to me in the greatest fury , and after chasing me several times round the room , at length caught me . He was proceeding in- stantly to ...
... master came into the room ; and seeing me with the remains of poor linnet . in my mouth , he ran to me in the greatest fury , and after chasing me several times round the room , at length caught me . He was proceeding in- stantly to ...
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Page 152 - And what is a conqueror ? Have not you, too, gone about the earth like an evil genius, blasting the fair fruits of peace and industry ; plundering, ravaging, killing, without law, without justice, merely to gratify an insatiable lust for dominion...
Page 150 - I don't mind it much, for my mammy gives me a pie now and then, and that is as good. Mr. L. Would you not like a knife, to cut sticks ? B. I have one, here it is.
Page 31 - pray what are coals but stones ; and is not butter, grease ; and corn, seeds ; and leather, skins ; and silk, the web of a kind of caterpillar ; and may we not as well call a cat an animal of the tiger kind, as a tiger an animal of the cat kind...
Page 152 - And does not Fame speak of me too ? Was there ever a bolder captain of a more valiant band ? Was there ever — but I scorn to boast.
Page 153 - If I have burned a few hamlets, you have desolated the most flourishing kingdoms and cities of the earth. What is then the difference, but that...
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Page 161 - I have no allurements to tempt you with, like those of my gay rival. Instead of spending all your time in amusements, if you enter yourself of my train, you must rise early, and pass the long day in a variety of employments, some of them difficult, some laborious, and all requiring some exertion of body or mind.
Page 153 - But if I have taken like a king, I have given like a king. If I have subverted empires, I have founded greater.