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ARMY REFORM; THE HORSE-GUARDS' ORDER AGAINST CURSING AND SWEARING

... nothing that I would not have done to oblige them: I would, at any moment, have ventured my life, ay, sacrificed it, not to speak of that of any other man, at a word of their bidding. But, Gentlemen, would you believe it? They have attacked my religion ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1829
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 772 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Original

... 0rtuaf TO LEIDA. 'Tis not those burning tears Upon thy maiden cheek; 'Tis not the sigh one scarcely beses From lips that never speak; 'Tis not the glance that fate Hath compassed with a cloud, So touching yet so desolate, Like cliidhood in its shroud: It is ...

Original

... twine among her hair Pro r Roses, as white as sanlit snows, was Bat jewels place not there. 30.I No gems of vanity should speak, A Nor fashlon's glittering prize, beh While meekness blushes on tbe cheek, T . And faith lights up the eyes. th it There should ...

Poetry

... high Thy grandeur glitters tbroughl the sky. The boundless ocean owns thy sway, The angry waves thy will obey: The tenmpest speaks alnud thy wrath. The lightning shows thy fearful path. to thee, the ever mighty King, The universe shall tribute bring; Thy ...

MORE PLAIN ENGLISH;

... solicited by the secretaries to frn ,speak on last Monday eveniag, ThAis committee, how e., e ever, -while they are glad to produce thisfact, Jcel bound to say, that when this well-known clergymenan was askeed Yto speak, the secretarics did not clearly know ...

Published: Friday 17 November 1848
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1214 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

EXTENT IN AID

... advanced in pregnanCY). in the I paroxysm of his anger, swore that if his w le brought. him another girl he wusld. nelier speak to it ! The wits -vis delivered of a culy, who was christened Eli, and is now livin g; but iisderful to relate, from his birth ...

Published: Friday 26 July 1816
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 493 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

AN ODE

... And some there are, 'od rot 'em, W Your would-bo Wiseaores of Gotham, J Children of perdition, Prf Who venture, boldly, to speak out; Wi A very utoompliment'ry doubt. Whether thou hast more valour er discretion I - rc But there are envious dogs, pre Mere-logs ...

Selections

... learned gentleman, whohad Justsat down:- Mr. Speak-E er, did the gentleman who'has last spoken, speak to the r purpose, oi did he not speakto the purpoe ? If he did- speak to the purpose, t? whatpurpose did he speak? ,* A 16EFT411ANDEV COMPLIMEXT. S That ...

THE MINISTERIAL GAGGING BILL

... itentionp, or zrny of them, shall express, stiter, or declare, by pnblishihtg any printing or ivrititeg, . or by open and advised speaking, or by any overt raet or I deed, (he or they) bhlall be dee~ned gully of felony, ai d . every person so ofierdin:, beingcanvicted ...

Published: Friday 14 April 1848
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 981 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE SWIMMING OF MAN AND OF OTHER ANIMALS

... the experiment, but to adopt the caution as the * forlorn hope, when he has no other chance left. Some eccentric writer, speaking of the physical capacities of man and other animals, says, -- Place a blind puppy, a kitten, or a sucking pig in the water ...

Published: Friday 04 July 1834
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 929 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Original

... To speak to a person unless by his name. One night at a Tcsvern, sitting much at his case,. As much as with form easy comfort agrees He beheld, at the fire, a stranger display ?? backs-coat up. urn'd-juse, you know, d ?? He eyede hun-would speak-but ...