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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... seed , with what contains it . This , in the Oak , is called an acorn , which is a kind of nut , partly inclosed in a cup . Geo . Acorn cups are very pretty things . I have made boats of them , and set them swimming in a basin . Tut ...
... seed , with what contains it . This , in the Oak , is called an acorn , which is a kind of nut , partly inclosed in a cup . Geo . Acorn cups are very pretty things . I have made boats of them , and set them swimming in a basin . Tut ...
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... seeds . These were the poorer class ; the richer had a whiter kind of cake , which they were fond of daubing over with a greasy matter that was the product of a large animal among them . This grease they used , too , in almost all their ...
... seeds . These were the poorer class ; the richer had a whiter kind of cake , which they were fond of daubing over with a greasy matter that was the product of a large animal among them . This grease they used , too , in almost all their ...
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... seeds of a grass - like plant steeped in water , with the addition of a bitter herb , and then set to work or ferment . I was prevailed upon to taste it , and thought it at first nauseous enough , but in time I liked it pretty well ...
... seeds of a grass - like plant steeped in water , with the addition of a bitter herb , and then set to work or ferment . I was prevailed upon to taste it , and thought it at first nauseous enough , but in time I liked it pretty well ...
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... seeds abovementioned , which are innocent and even salutary in their natural state , though made to yield such a pernicious juice . The strangest custom that I believe prevails in any nation I found here , which was , that some take a ...
... seeds abovementioned , which are innocent and even salutary in their natural state , though made to yield such a pernicious juice . The strangest custom that I believe prevails in any nation I found here , which was , that some take a ...
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... seeds at their very centre . Here were whole fields full of extremely odori- ferous flowers , which they told me were succeeded by pods bearing seeds , that afforded good nourishment to man and beast . A great variety of birds enli ...
... seeds at their very centre . Here were whole fields full of extremely odori- ferous flowers , which they told me were succeeded by pods bearing seeds , that afforded good nourishment to man and beast . A great variety of birds enli ...
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acorns Alfred animal Beaum beautiful bees Betty birds body Bolt Court Borrowdale brought called Canute cloth colour companions corn creature dare say deal dear earth elephant Fairborne Fanny father fell fire flax Fleet Street flowers friends Gandelin give grass Greenlanders ground grow Gubba hand Harf head heard hole honour horse Indur John JUVENILE BUDGET OPENED kind Landl leaves length liquor live look lord mamma Manufacture Mary master means mother nature neighbouring nest never obliged Offa papa perly Pine plants poor Pray quadruped Rookery Sally seeds ships side soon sort spirit spirit of wine suppose sure sweet swim tell thing thought tion Tom Hardy took trees tribe walk wine wings wood young
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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...
Page 150 - Hast thou not set at defiance my authority ; violated the public peace ; and passed thy life in injuring the persons and properties of thy fellowsubjects ? ROBBER.
Page 149 - No, sir ; but our Tom makes footballs, to kick in the cold weather, and we set traps for birds ; and then I have a...
Page 73 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
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.