Home and Social Philosophy: Or, Chapters on Every-day Topics, Том 1

Charles Dickens

G.P. Putnam, 1853 - Всего страниц: 498

Содержание

• DREAMS: 9
• ICE 80: 30
• SOME ACCOUNT OF CHLOROFORM: 43
• MRS MEEKS OF A SON: 57
• GERMAN ADVERTISEMENTS: 71
• MR VAN PLOOS ON PENMANSHIP: 87
• THE MYSTERIES OF A TEAKETTLE: 101
• THE MAGIC CRYSTAL: 117
• THE PRIVATE HISTORY OF THE PALACE OF GLASS: 131
• PHYSIOLOGY OF INTEMPERANCE: 150
• SLEEP: 166
• THE CHEMISTRY OF A PINT OF BEER: 183
• THE RATIONAL DOCTOR: 197
• SOMNAMBULISM: 212
• THE WORLD OF WATER: 232
• THE WIND AND THE RAIN: 249
• THE WORK OF THE WORLD: 9
• THE CHEMISTRY OF A CANDLE 22: 22
• A PARIS NEWSPAPER: 39
• BALLOONING: 49
• FATE DAYS: 73
• WINGED TELEGRAPHS 90: 90
• THREE DETECTIVE ANECDOTES 97: 99
• THE WAY I MADE MY FORTUNE 109: 109
• DISAPPEARANCES 119: 119
• THE NINEVEH BULL 132: 133
• LIBERTY EQUALITY FRATERNITY AND MUSKETRY 167: 167
• MY UNCLE: 184
• ENGLISH SONGS: 201
• THE FIRST TIME AND THE LAST WAY OF ASKING 216: 216
• THE WONDERS OF NAILS AND SCREWS 224: 224

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Стр. 83 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.

Стр. 208 - Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.

Стр. 215 - Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.

Стр. 19 - On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved.

Стр. 206 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th

Стр. 21 - The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or, however,...

Стр. 15 - A remarkable circumstance in this case was, that after these experiments he had no distinct recollection of his dreams, but only a confused feeling of oppression or fatigue ; and used to tell his friends that he .was sure they had been playing some trick upon him.

Стр. 81 - Tea in England hath been sold in the leaf for six pounds, and sometimes for ten pounds the pound weight, and in respect of its former scarceness and dearness it hath been only used as a regalia in high treatments and entertainments, and presents made thereof to princes and grandees till the year 1657.

Стр. 84 - ... a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with Tea amuses the evening, with Tea solaces the midnight, and with Tea welcomes the morning.

Стр. 180 - ... turn on his right side, place his head comfortably on the pillow, so that it exactly occupies the angle, a line drawn from the head to the shoulder would form, and then slightly closing his lips, take rather a full inspiration, breathing as much as he possibly can through the nostrils.

Библиографические данные

• Название: Home and Social Philosophy: Or, Chapters on Every-day Topics, Том 1; Home and Social Philosophy: Or, Chapters on Every-day Topics; Putnam's Library; Putnam's library for the people
• Редактор: Charles Dickens
• Издатель: G.P. Putnam, 1853
• Владелец оригинала: Гарвардский университет
• Оцифровано: 28 мар 2008
• Количество страниц: Всего страниц: 498