Midsummer holidays at Briar's hall; or, Summer mornings improved

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Harvey & Darton, 1828 - 269 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 68 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
الصفحة 87 - Hamburgh, into his poultry-yard, to be the companion of a tame one that he had long kept there; but the tame Stork, disliking a rival, fell upon the poor stranger, and beat him so unmercifully that he was compelled to take wing, and with some difficulty escaped. About four months afterwards, however, he returned to the poultryyard...
الصفحة 87 - Hamburgh, into his poultryyard, to be the companion of a tame one that he had long kept there; but the tame Stork, disliking a rival, fell upon the poor stranger, and beat him so unmercifully that he was compelled to take wing, and with some difficulty escaped. About four months afterwards, however, he returned to the poultry-yard, recovered of his wounds, and attended by three other Storks, who no sooner alighted than they all together fell upon the tame Stork and killed him.
الصفحة 193 - Resistless rushing o'er th' enfeebled South, And gave the vanquish'd world another form. Not such the sons of Lapland : wisely they Despise th' insensate barbarous trade of war ; They ask no more than simple Nature gives; They love their mountains, and enjoy their storms. No false desires, no pride-created wants, Disturb the peaceful current of their time, And through the restless, ever-tortured maze Of pleasure or ambition bid it rage.
الصفحة 87 - In a garden (says Dr. Hermann) where the children were playing at hide-andseek, I saw a tame Stork join the party ; run its turn when touched ; and distinguish the child whose turn it was to pursue the rest, so well, as, along with the others, to be on its guard.
الصفحة 87 - I saw in a garden (says Dr. Hermann) where the children were playing at hide and seek, a tame Stork join the party, run its turn when touched, and distinguish the child whose turn it was to pursue the rest, so well, as, along with the others, to be on its guard.
الصفحة 65 - The arteries convey the blood from the heart to the extremities of the body ; and the veins bring it back into the heart. . This sketch will give you an idea of the manner in which some of the principal veins and arteries of the human body branch out of the heart, which may be considered as a common centre to both sets of vessels. The heart is a kind of strong elastic bag, or muscular cavity, which possesses a power of dilating and contracting itself, for the...
الصفحة 171 - When you walk along a country-road after a heavy rain, your boots may get covered with .... mud. 18 In summer when there has been no rain for a long time, the country roads are covered with .... dust*. 19 Some years the summer months have almost no rain. So the summer has been very . . . .dry. 20 And you say there has been a long and serious .... drought*. 21 ... that loud rumbling noise we often hear on very hot summer days? Thunder*. 22 Before we hear...
الصفحة 134 - Learning must surely be preferred to mere antiquity; and every one will allow that, at a time when the rest of the world was plunged in all the darkness of ignorance, my people were eminent in science and literature.

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