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... catll second Sight. We bmploid, every comrtmoil-place topic, ordinarily 'connected witb these objects, and came at last to speak of sorcerers end ghosis. The Emperor concluded witli observing; 'All these qnacesries, and as many others, such us those of ...

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... ttid-de-camps in every direction, here bringing reports lo tieir generals, there conveying orders to the attacking . colu~n~s, all speak of peril and deat h, but also of antici. .pated vctory; and s0 cheeringly, that a sensation of prowl hope timells the bosom ...

LITERATURE

... body, and upon esamination found his pulse and the momon of his heart gradually returning.; he began to breathe gently, and speak softly. We were all astonished to the last de- gree at this unexpected change, and after some further conversation with himn ...

VARIETIES

... low anxious whisper asked, '; Ha-e yOU .hiun? ( Got him, vas the laconic reply, and the ir';. passed on wi!hbout farther speaking. Farther on a'nnua confederatejoined thein, and '- HaVe yon got hi vi? a, repeated in the marne -ay, and produded the msee ...

VARIETIES

... VARIETIES. A gentleman speaking of those who marry pretty wives, said, that in six months a beautiful woman became ngly to her husband; and, What was worse, she con- tinued beautiful to others. A free negro was brought before a Magistrate, and convicted ...

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... takes his stake, pockets it,anid'only thiank whe're to throw the jack 'for beginning another cn.it' BatwsosGArEa-Bngs'rd,' speaking of the antiquities of jit .London, has ihe following notice as to a custom'once s prevailing bere h -'This' brings to my' ...

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... indications remain of its having been known in tbe eleventh century. The Geographer of Nubla, who wrote in the twelfth century, speaks of: it as an instru. ntent universally employed. The numerals which we call-Arahie',but which, perhaps, ought rather to be ...

LITERATURE

... [be minds and passions of the inhabitants. In fact, the peasants are of so list- less a nature, that they are, generally speaking, little betterthan passive observersof the actions of either party. Some are so peaneably engaged in agricultural ocert- ...

VARIETIES

... iDvention tied to his feet, that his neck might support him and his works together. PRUDENT RFSOLVE.-A gentleman took occasion to speak of the markied state before a very spirited and lively femfale, to whom he was guardian, and observed, that She who marries ...

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... lon-cheeks tfallen iu-eye~, sunk,abut darting a look of despairAndt veveY-b one-in his body visibl e through the -kin. He could speak no English, but was continually uttering I curm in hinohis odher tonguupon hi s own existence, and tapparently upitton all ...

LITERATURE

... doubts. Foer example -at the en'd of the Dnhe's examinationi, it is stated that before signing it, be Laesired iminedintely to speak'to Buonapdite.a lBefore mitgning this prmpesv erW, I desire to have a prlikste namdiepce-of the First Consul. My name, my ...

INTERESTING NOTICES IN THE ARTS—SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE—RECENT DISCOVERIES

... applicable to-every instrument, by which per- sons nf .il nations may converse with each other, without the trouble of learning to speak a language. In one of 211r.S's recent courses, a Turk upon the flute cOnversed fomr half-an honr with a Frenchman who played ...