The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 9J. Limbird, 1827 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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... took place on a Monday morning ; and , on the next day ( Tuesday ) , as I was walking along the common - blown along would be the properer phrase , for it was a wind that impelled one onward like a steam- engine - what should I see but ...
... took place on a Monday morning ; and , on the next day ( Tuesday ) , as I was walking along the common - blown along would be the properer phrase , for it was a wind that impelled one onward like a steam- engine - what should I see but ...
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... took rise ( says Pen- nant ) in 1592 ; in which year began a great pestilence , which continued till the 18th of December , 1595. During this period they were kept in order to ascer- tain the number of persons who died ; but when the ...
... took rise ( says Pen- nant ) in 1592 ; in which year began a great pestilence , which continued till the 18th of December , 1595. During this period they were kept in order to ascer- tain the number of persons who died ; but when the ...
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... took a boat at Blackfriars ' Bridge , to go to the Tower . One of them asked the other , who sat beside him , if he could tell him , what countryman the water- man was ? He replied , he could not , " Then , " said his friend , " I can ...
... took a boat at Blackfriars ' Bridge , to go to the Tower . One of them asked the other , who sat beside him , if he could tell him , what countryman the water- man was ? He replied , he could not , " Then , " said his friend , " I can ...
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... took place on the evening of Friday , January 5 , 1827. At two o'clock on Saturday morning a Gazette Extraordi- nary was published , announcing the de- cease of his royal highness in the follow- ing terms : - x " ર Whitehall , January ...
... took place on the evening of Friday , January 5 , 1827. At two o'clock on Saturday morning a Gazette Extraordi- nary was published , announcing the de- cease of his royal highness in the follow- ing terms : - x " ર Whitehall , January ...
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... took the book and read aloud . It was a poetic page over which they hung . She leant her white arm on her lover's shoulder , and gazed upon him with de- lighted and breathless attention . Who is it that has said there is no happiness on ...
... took the book and read aloud . It was a poetic page over which they hung . She leant her white arm on her lover's shoulder , and gazed upon him with de- lighted and breathless attention . Who is it that has said there is no happiness on ...
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