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... NOTICE . - No gratuity allowed to be taken by any Guard , Porter , or other Servant of the Company . Smoking in the First Class Carriages is strictly pro- hibited . The number of the ticket and signature of agent are in MS .; the day ...
... NOTICE . - No gratuity allowed to be taken by any Guard , Porter , or other Servant of the Company . Smoking in the First Class Carriages is strictly pro- hibited . The number of the ticket and signature of agent are in MS .; the day ...
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... Notices to Correspondents . We must call special attention to the following notices : ON all communications must be ... NOTICE Editorial Communications should be addressed to " The Editor of Notes and Queries ' " - Advertisements and ...
... Notices to Correspondents . We must call special attention to the following notices : ON all communications must be ... NOTICE Editorial Communications should be addressed to " The Editor of Notes and Queries ' " - Advertisements and ...
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... notice . Forms necessary may be had on application ( gratis ) , or on receipt of letter , which will obviate personal attendance . Cost of Passport , 2s . ; fee for obtaining same , 1s . 6d . Fee for obtaining Visas , 1s . each , in ...
... notice . Forms necessary may be had on application ( gratis ) , or on receipt of letter , which will obviate personal attendance . Cost of Passport , 2s . ; fee for obtaining same , 1s . 6d . Fee for obtaining Visas , 1s . each , in ...
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... Notice of the Author . " Ranks far above the ordinary run of educational books .... The notes and scientific ... Notices by LOUISA A. MERIVALE " The notes give the reader all the assistance which he can require . They prove , too , that ...
... Notice of the Author . " Ranks far above the ordinary run of educational books .... The notes and scientific ... Notices by LOUISA A. MERIVALE " The notes give the reader all the assistance which he can require . They prove , too , that ...
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... notice . So also do some large - page illustrations that he made for Life , the Mirror of the Million , one of those weekly papers that , after a weakly existence , soon died a natural death . It was started on February 2 , 1850. Phiz ...
... notice . So also do some large - page illustrations that he made for Life , the Mirror of the Million , one of those weekly papers that , after a weakly existence , soon died a natural death . It was started on February 2 , 1850. Phiz ...
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Page 106 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Page 203 - Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner following, the bleeding relics of men who had been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts.
Page 338 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Page 212 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea...
Page 24 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Page 338 - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Page 204 - Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth ; I know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.
Page 193 - slithy' means 'lithe and slimy.' 'Lithe' is the same as 'active.' You see it's like a portmanteau— there are two meanings packed up into one word.
Page 54 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
Page 7 - To show their particular aversion to it, they branded this form of writing with the name of an egotism; a figure not to be found among the ancient rhetoricians. The most violent egotism which I have met with in the course of my reading, is that of cardinal Wolsey, ego et rex meus,