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Page 197 - Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally ; She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley. There is no lady in the land Is half so sweet as Sally ; She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley.
Page 504 - That it may please thee to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 246 - Falls watching the waters and revolving plans to harness them : 'so much power running to waste, such a coign of vantage unoccupied, such a lever to control the natural forces of Africa ungripped, cannot but vex and stimulate imagination. . . . And what fun to make the immemorial Nile begin its journey by diving through a turbine.
Page 526 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, "- %.? That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 275 - In the course of the month of March, 1828, Mrs Marten dreamed on three successive nights that her daughter had been murdered and buried in the Red Barn. Terrified at the repetition of the vision, an undefined suspicion, which she had always entertained, that her daughter had been unfairly dealt with, appeared fully confirmed in her own mind...
Page 661 - Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son.
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Page 353 - LET POSTERITY know, and knowing be astonished, that on the 1 5th day of September, 1784 Vincent Lunardi of Lucca in Tuscany, the First Aerial Traveller in Britain, mounting from the Artillery Ground in London and traversing the Regions of the Air for two Hours and fifteen Minutes, in this Spot revisited the Earth. On this rude monument for ages be recorded that...
Page 111 - Please to remember The fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot ; I see no reason Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.
Page 665 - A farmer had a pen made of fifty hurdles, capable of holding a hundred sheep only. Supposing he wanted to make it sufficiently large to hold double that number, how many additional hurdles must he have? I will leave the reader to examine this simple question for himself. Here is another old friend: "The Puzzle Wall