The Saturday Magazine, Volume 12J. W. Parker, 1838 - Periodicals |
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... latter year , which is memorable for the projected invasion of her kingdom by the Spaniards , and the defeat of their grand Armada , Elizabeth paid her celebrated visit to her army at Tilbury Fort . In 1591 we find her recommencing her ...
... latter year , which is memorable for the projected invasion of her kingdom by the Spaniards , and the defeat of their grand Armada , Elizabeth paid her celebrated visit to her army at Tilbury Fort . In 1591 we find her recommencing her ...
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... latter being lifted off , and the former broken and removed from the core : the shell , after being black- ened inside by the burning of straw , to give smooth- ness to the casting , is lowered exactly over the core ; the cap containing ...
... latter being lifted off , and the former broken and removed from the core : the shell , after being black- ened inside by the burning of straw , to give smooth- ness to the casting , is lowered exactly over the core ; the cap containing ...
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... latter quality , however , is rendered of less value , by the circumstance that it is accom- panied with a want of that elasticity which is so valuable a property in quill pens . This we can easily conceive , for although bamboo - reeds ...
... latter quality , however , is rendered of less value , by the circumstance that it is accom- panied with a want of that elasticity which is so valuable a property in quill pens . This we can easily conceive , for although bamboo - reeds ...
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... latter effect is increased by repeated heatings ; and when done for the purpose of hardening the quill , is called dutching , probably from the circumstance that the process was first adopted in Holland . ( The term Dutch pens , is ...
... latter effect is increased by repeated heatings ; and when done for the purpose of hardening the quill , is called dutching , probably from the circumstance that the process was first adopted in Holland . ( The term Dutch pens , is ...
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... latter institution devoted also 20007. to the purpose of building boats on Mr. Greathead's plan . Since this time most of the dangerous parts of our coasts have been furnished with life - boats on the same construction . The length of ...
... latter institution devoted also 20007. to the purpose of building boats on Mr. Greathead's plan . Since this time most of the dangerous parts of our coasts have been furnished with life - boats on the same construction . The length of ...
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Page 237 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 148 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Page 159 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 29 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 143 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 32 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 109 - And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded ; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants ; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
Page 148 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 181 - And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
Page 229 - And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances : and she was his only child ; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.