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Page 31 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Page 93 - to rejoice with those that do rejoice, and weep with those that weep.
Page 83 - ... bushes, and in a few minutes they fell into a profound sleep : Soon after, some of the people who had been sent forward returned, with the welcome news that a fire was kindled about a quarter of a mile farther on the way.
Page 162 - English in Kent, in the Weald, where I doubt not is spoken as broad and rude English as in any place of England ; and have continued by the space of 30 years for the most part in the countries of Brabant, Flanders, Holland, and Zealand.
Page 32 - I thought it derogatory to my new dignity as a manufacturer, to make dolls' eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the length of this, and we had just room to walk between stacks, from the floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said, 'These are only the legs and arms; the trunks are below.
Page 28 - A sirloin of beef was set before him (so knighted, saith tradition, by this king Henry) ; on which the king laid on lustily, not disgracing one of that place, for whom he was mistaken. Well fare thy heart, quoth the abbot ; and here in a cup of sack, I remember the health of his grace your master.
Page 54 - At Preston, before the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832, every person who had a cottage with a chimney, and used the latter, had a vote, and was called a smoker.
Page 35 - If three men were to have their legs and anus broken, and were to remain all night exposed to the inclemency of the weather, the whole country would be in a state of the most dreadful agitation. Look at the wholesale death of a field of battle, ten acres covered with dead, and half dead, and dying ; and the shrieks and agonies of many thousand human beings. There is more of misery inflicted on mankind by one year of war, than by all the civil peculations and oppressions of a century.
Page 120 - London on every small occasion, which otherwise they would not do, but upon urgent necessity ; nay, the convenience of the passage makes their wives often come up, who, rather than come such long journeys on horseback, would stay at home.
Page 28 - In springs King Henry out of a private lobby, where he had placed himself, the invisible spectator of the abbot's behaviour.