The Saturday Magazine, Volume 16J. W. Parker, 1840 - Periodicals |
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... received . While speaking of New Year's Gifts to royalty , we stated that presents are always given by the different may mention that a journalist about fifteen years ago , members of the royal family of France , to each other , on New ...
... received . While speaking of New Year's Gifts to royalty , we stated that presents are always given by the different may mention that a journalist about fifteen years ago , members of the royal family of France , to each other , on New ...
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... received fifty thou- sand livres of rent . But this is little in comparison with the produce of the Abbey of St. Bertin , of which the revenues reach the extent of one hundred and fifty thousand livres . It was composed of fifty reli ...
... received fifty thou- sand livres of rent . But this is little in comparison with the produce of the Abbey of St. Bertin , of which the revenues reach the extent of one hundred and fifty thousand livres . It was composed of fifty reli ...
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... received most appropriate and significant names in times past , by which they are still recognised among the lower class of people . The following amusing extract from the Journal of a Natu- ralist , will give a pretty good notion of ...
... received most appropriate and significant names in times past , by which they are still recognised among the lower class of people . The following amusing extract from the Journal of a Natu- ralist , will give a pretty good notion of ...
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... received so many orders , that he employed a large company of anatomists , model - cutters , wax - moulders , and painters ; he ge- nerally confined his models to representations of the internal parts of the human body . At Wittenberg ...
... received so many orders , that he employed a large company of anatomists , model - cutters , wax - moulders , and painters ; he ge- nerally confined his models to representations of the internal parts of the human body . At Wittenberg ...
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... received six sitters daily in their turns , and kept regular lists of those who sat and of those who were waiting , until a finished portrait should make way for their admission . As his commissions accumulated , he engaged several ...
... received six sitters daily in their turns , and kept regular lists of those who sat and of those who were waiting , until a finished portrait should make way for their admission . As his commissions accumulated , he engaged several ...
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Page 44 - PANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.
Page 29 - With heaping coals of fire upon his head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross the silver runs below.
Page 120 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 11 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Page 20 - And if neglect had lavished on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found.
Page 9 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Page 5 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 157 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 169 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street " And open fields and we not see't ? Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey The proclamation made for May...
Page 2 - Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.