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... litmerally trembling beneath them, and sul- phurous vapours issuing from apertures in the hill. Dense clouds of smoke rolled up from the crater of the volcano within a volcano ; and from the dark abyss a sound like distant thunder perpetually came up. A ...

Published: Sunday 28 August 1864
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1616 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... printing-press; he does not knoo- that he is a part of the chain through which the galvanic spark of thought flies from man to man-from London to the poles. He sets up Humboldt's Cosmos without knowing a word that is in it, and when the nimble fegers ...

Published: Sunday 27 March 1859
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1641 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... savlng his friends and relatives from any penalties which mighb other. wise, on his condemnation before the law-courts, or other tribunals of jnutice or fashion, have devolved on hlis family, and going out of the world In the most approved and scientific ...

Published: Sunday 09 February 1862
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1576 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... barbarians. Whit dolts aq4 drivellers the people are to submit to suoh universal despotism. I should like to see, from this our a, the world submerged, and all the rascals on it ?? ing like rate. I put a pencil and paper in his hband sbiying, Perpetu ...

Published: Sunday 09 May 1858
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1572 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... cases entering at the front only, and fading away in a few feet from the threshold into a gloom which the eye from without can- not penetrate, but which is generally broken by a ray .oe two from a feeble lamp at the back of the shop, suspend.: ed before a ...

Published: Sunday 31 July 1853
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1696 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... minute Miss Lind came running in from the gardea;, with dress unhooked behind, hair not very saooib (these particeulars are Fecond eand from tie lirst nar- rator), and as cordial as the oldest friend he had in thO world. She seized him by his two bands ...

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... stiff-necked, blind-eyed proeligalitJ natural to us, will denude the world of its mantoes stores, and so deprive the future of its food; atd 11e BMalthasians are afraid that the world will get seer stocked with haman animals, and that the &rylig generations ...

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... THE SCRAP-BOOK Cm *_ To-. rev-- -A_ ma-- AIkr IrDIrA L1GnfD.-Olt Of a pine in tbe I settlement and about five feet from the gron . ritau irg np vrith the tree a ram's heod, with the horng Ieve attached to it; and so fixed and embedded - a Stll tree that ...

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... columns of Household IVe,*. were so much copy; and that the writing of it if his own children was only a common, and to the world, a warrantable artistic fiction. Such fictilo was not possible to the greatest fiction writer of oGU century. I have his words ...

Published: Sunday 03 July 1870
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1535 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

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... uponuus in thia pariiculer, and the most efleqtual way. of meeting them :-1, A&dequate /protection to bathers from the open beach, whether from machine or public station, can only be secured by. compelling all. bpth pro- prietors and ' their easplg to swim ...

Published: Sunday 17 September 1871
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1484 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

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... debtor, Oh ! his Poor eyes nearly start from each sooket; Working out castings the longer the better, Bringing the grist to his governors pocket. Week after week, the same dull monotoay, Frigid sad clean, and free from all fault, Looked upon much like a Moovict ...

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... cliffoalice all along its face, varying ?? twventy to one hundred feet in height; pieces from the size of a church downwards are constantly becoinsg de- tached from this Icy precipice, and tamble into the ses with a terrific roar and splash, and oF course ...