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adventures Æsop Æsop's aforesaid amusing anecdotes Aspasia BARONESS D'OBERKIRCH battles of Salamanca beauty better BLACKETT'S NEW PUBLICATIONS blessed bound Brenda character charity charm Chartism Church Colonel Jade cormorants Court dear dipthong Duke dull Edition English Esop Esop's evil eyes fair fancy fellow folks folly gallop gentle give happy heart honour human hump HURST AND BLACKETT'S interesting JEANNE D'ALBRET Koh-i-Noor live look LORD GEORGE BENTINCK Lord Grenville Lord Palmerston Marguerite d'Angoulême marriage married matter mercy mind misery modern moral narrative nature neighbours never Newsaw noble once patience perpetual Peter pleasant poor post 8vo pretty Queen queen's evidence reader reveries ride SAM SLICK seems SIBERIA silly sketches sort spirit story sweet tell there's things Thomas Hood thought tion tongue truth utter utterly vols volumes wisdom wise wonder worries young
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Seite 12 - THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. BY ELIOT WARBURTON. " Independent of its value as an original narrative, and its useful and interesting information, this work is remarkable for the colouring power and play of fancy with which its descriptions are enlivened. Among its greatest and most lasting charms is its reverent and serious spirit."— Quarterly Review.
Seite 16 - THE ROMANCE OF THE FORUM; OR, NARRATIVES, SCENES, AND ANECDOTES FROM COURTS OF JUSTICE. SECOND SERIES. BY PETER BURKE, Esa., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. 2 vols. post 8vo. 21s. PRINCIPAL CONTENTS :— Lord Crichton's Revenge— The Great Douglas Cause — Lord and Lady Kinnaird — Marie Delorme and Her Husband — The Spectral Treasure — Murders in Inns of Court — Matthieson the Forger — Trials that...
Seite 20 - Correspondence, etc., each number comprises Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Officers of all branches of service, Reviews of New Publications, either immediately relating to the Army or Navy, or involving subjects of utility or interest to the members of either, full Reports of Trials by Courts Martial, Distribution of the Army and Navy, General Orders, Circulars, Promotions, Appointments, Births, Marriages, Obituary, etc., with all the Naval and Military Intelligence of the month.
Seite 1 - Such a book as the memoir of Elizabeth de Valois is a literary treasure which will be the more appreciated as its merits obtain that reputation to which they most justly are entitled. Miss Freer has done her utmost to make the facts of Elizabeth's, Don Carlos', and Philip II. 'a careers fully known, as they actually transpired.
Seite 167 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Seite 20 - PRESS. •"This is confessedly one of the ablest and most attractive periodicals of which the British press can boast, presenting a wide field of entertainment to the general as well as professional reader.
Seite 20 - At the head of those periodicals which furnish useful and valuable information to their peculiar classes of readers, as well as amusement to the general body of the public, must be placed the ' United Service Magazine, and Naval and Military Journal.' It numbers among its contributors almost all those gallant spirits who have done no less honour to their country by their swords than by their pens, and abounds with the most interesting discussions on naval and military affairs, and stirring narratives...
Seite 2 - A delightful book, of which the charm begins at the the first line on the first page, for full of quaint and pleasant memories is the phrase that is its title—' The Old Court Suburb/ Very full, too, both of quaint and pleasant memories is the line that designates the author.
Seite 9 - Ngami was reached by a route that had been deemed impracticable, but which proves to be the shortest and the best. The work contains much scientific and accurate information...