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...t contention, art or study; for it is myselfe I pourtray. My imperfections shall thus be read to the life, and my naturall forme discerned, so farre-forth as publike reverence hath permitted me. For if my fortune had beene to have lived among those nations which yet are said to live under the sweet liberty of Nature's first and uncorrupted lawes, I assure thee, I would m...

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... true faile it V. Whether the Captaine of a Place Besieged ought to sallie forth to Parlie VI. That the Houre of Parlies is dangerous VII. That our ... ...ne's Essays XXXII. To avoid Voluptuousnesse in regard of Life XXXIII. That Fortune is oftentimes met withall in pursuit of Reason XXXIV. Of a Defect i... ... tongue (though many-times with a jerke of the French Iargon) wouldset it forth to the best service I might; and to better I might not, then You tha... ...and great soever it be, cannot sensibly perceive or distinguish the same. Smiths, Millers, Forgers, Armorers, and such other, could not possibly end... ... of injustice that refuse good and honest Comedians, or (as we call them) Players, to enter our good townes, and grudge the common people such publi... ...ance an without noise or groning, endure the bearing and deliverie of two twins. A simple lad of Lacedemon having stolne a fox (for they more feared... ... in drinking. Enterludes and commedies, rejoyce and make us merry, but to players they are tedious and tastelesse. Which to prove, we see it is a de... ...nner of silke, of scarlet, or any goldsmiths worke, except only Enterlude- players, Harlots, and Curtizans. With such an invention did Zeleucus whilom... ... but are much troubled at that sharpe, harsh, and teeth-edging noise that smiths make in filing of brasse, or scraping of iron and steele together: ...

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... by new discoveries, and no new theories or models have successfully been put forth to explain these new discoveries. One fad theory after another ... ...es. The male penis when it is properly energized by Impetus, gives birth to twins: a boy and a girl. These sexual organs recreate the birth of th... ...Doing what with its upper limbs while it moves around? Swinging them back and forth of course like the branches of a tree in a breeze. Doing what wi... ... their own small town to succeed in the outer world: where they gain fame and fortune: while they are still regarded back home as ‘that upstart, who…... ...your partner to hit the ball back to you. As a result, most fledgling tennis players get disgusted at not having a chance even to touch the ball and... ...erformed: not their personalities. They became Millers, Carpenters, Carvers, Smiths, etc… Their first names became repetitious duplicates of their ... ..., 200 cleared acres of fields, livestock, fences to keep in that livestock, a smithy to make all the iron implements, a deep well dug near the house... ...ic sicknesses and oblivion. They created the first human mutations of Siamese twins. Look at their half-man, half-animal Gods. Animals and humans ... ...osities. Ancient Egyptians worshipped twin Gods. Their images are images of twins facing each other on the wall. With only one eye showing. With ...

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...trees. There was a hot sticky childish oozing within him. Within dreams his fortitude was like marshmallows when pulled off of sticks after roasting ... ...t he didn't have a girlfriend evidenced when no letters and photographs were forthcoming. Then one day he was gone and soon thereafter Sang Huin lost ... ...rms, pushing their carts and singing their songs as traditional music blared forth. He died every time he saw one of them. He yearned for the love and... ... as if it had made them conjoined spiritually although obviously not Siamese twins. She would have to use the width of her arms to symbolize an embrac... .... Naked, she was in a pillar of light the way the so-called prophet, Joseph Smith had been-only, being atheist, her pillar was only silver. She knew... ...t to see both of you at the same time. Nothing better for a man than boobsy twins." I fixed him breakfast and when we were eating some pancakes --- a... ...ta" "Those are first names. What is your last name?" "Nothing special. Just Smith." "Kennedy Smith of the Kennedy dynasty--are you from the family of... ...l." "I think that is special." She opened the door. "Come in, Miss Kennedy Smith. Sit down over there while I pour you whiskey and cola without the... ...f smiles and chatter. Her chatter was a repetition of their ideas about the players and the plays. Since she hadn't really observed a thing and the...

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...l do fine.” “Oh, I’m not worried about that. I’m concerned why a man goes back and forth between two women for years, until one day he ups and shoo... ...He threatened to do away with himself at least once a year.” “I knew Royce almost forty years. He may’ve threatened, but he’d never do it.” “I ... ...ost forty years. He may’ve threatened, but he’d never do it.” “I didn’t know him forty years, but I saw him go crazy a couple of times. Did Hann... ...us Hollands broken over his arm when he hunted at Live Oaks. Marvelous guns, those twins. Handmade. I’d have kept them at Jakova — show them off ... ...t say anything for the moment. “No marshals out today, either. No need. Not many players to keep moving.” “Oh well, somebody will turn it in. ... ... in this truck?” “Sure.” He reached over to the glove compartment. He held up the Smith & Wesson .44 pistol. “This baby goes where I go.” “Let...

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...esent to the gentlemen that she had some reason to believe the ladies were fortunes, and to hint to the ladies, that all the gentlemen were ‘eligible.... ...ll), and being disinherited by his fa- ther, who died soon afterwards, was fortunate enough to obtain a permanent engagement at a fashionable haircutt... ...hinking, of the exclusive portion of the nobility of this kingdom. To this fortunate circumstance are we indebted for the production of those brillian... ...her being at least fifty. They dressed in the most interesting manner—like twins! and looked as happy and comfortable as a couple of marigolds run to ... ... if they had actually come out. ‘How do I look, dear?’ inquired Miss Emily Smithers, the belle of the house, of Miss Caroline Wilson, who was her boso... ...their first errand to make some purchases at Messrs. Jones, Spruggins, and Smith’s, of Tottenham- court-road; after which, they were to go to Redmayne... ...I want to see some silks, ’ answered Mrs. Malderton. ‘Directly, ma’am.—Mr. Smith! Where is Mr. Smith?’ ‘Here, sir, ’ cried a voice at the back of the ... ...ing’ on the hob. ‘Fourpence more, by gum!’ exclaimed one of the crib- bage-players, lighting a pipe, and addressing his adver- sary at the close of th...

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... went away making her only privy to it, and commanding her, if she brought forth a son who, when he came to man’s estate, should be able to lift up th... ...mise that he would use her with respect, and offer her no injury, she came forth, and in due time bore him a son, named Melanippus; but afterwards was... ..., as others add, accustomed, out of insolence and wan- tonness, to stretch forth his feet to strangers, commanding them to wash them, and then while t... ...hile he condemns before the cause is heard. Formerly, then, we (for we are twins) thought ourselves the sons of Faustulus and Larentia, the king’s ser... ...h’s Lives Striking at all, as when from Alba town, With sword in hand, the twins came hurrying down; and that the bloody knife applied to their forehe... ...; he might, if he pleased, make his son a husbandman or carpenter, copper- smith or musician; as if it were of no importance for them to be directed a... ...cypress- wood; and the arts or trades that wrought and fashioned them were smiths and carpenters, molders, founders and braziers, stone-cutters, dyers... ... from home is called Proculus; or Postumus, if after his decease; and when twins come into the world, and one dies at the birth, the survivor has the ... ...nt hospitality with him; and was now serving in the war, in command of the smiths and carpenters of the army. Having the charge of a garrison in Vaga,...

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...straight towards the wing of the castle in which is the window of Mary de Medici, so that Madame never fails to say: ‘Could one believe it possible th... ...s to me as if you likewise were rather negligent of your duties!” Louise assumed a serious air, leant her chin upon her hand, and, in a tone full of c... ...scribed on his list of services, and not one defeat from which his bravery or conscience had to suffer. Raoul, therefore, had, in compliance with the ... ... secret of the macaroni, to Frenchify his name, and at length, when the political horizon should be cleared from the clouds which obscured it — this w... ...me idea — your picture shall appear, and my legend likewise. Does not ‘Medici’ mean doctor, or physician, in Italian?” “Y es, in the plural.” “Well, t... ...inner, and his generals to govern the republic; Richard abdicated the protectorate on the 22nd of April, 1659, more than a year ago, sire. “From that ... ...st eager players are Lambert and Monk. Well, sire, I, in my turn, wish to take part in this game, where the stakes are thrown upon my royal mantle. Si... ...ooked at him. The poverty of D’Artagnan was proverbial. A Gascon, he exceeded in ill-luck all the gasconnades of France and Navarre; Raoul had a hundr... ...x’s carriage — for Madame Faucheux kept her carriage. As the daughter of a president of ac- counts, she had brought a marriage portion of thirty thou-...

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...e Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit afte... ...ed is in it- self, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding f... ...and the morning were the fourth day. 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may y a... ...er. 24 And when her days to be delivered were ful lled, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25 And the rst came out red, all over like an hairy gar... ... no more. 27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. 28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that th... ...looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. 19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Le... ...hty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the crafts- men and smiths: none remained, save the poor- est sort of the people of the land. 1... ...lon. 16 And all the men of might, even seven thou- sand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king... ...hat are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. 3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarl...

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...hough, might at distance have been taken by strangers for some whitewashed fort on a floating isle. Merchants on ‘change seem the passengers that buzz... ... im- mediately threw a damp upon the frolic benignities of the pitch-penny players. But that these suspicions came from one who himself on a 12 The C... ...ey, as it turned out, found him even guiltier than the court had done, and forthwith proceeded to execu- tion; so that the gallows presented the truly... ...mbrella under his arm, and diving down his hand into his pocket, he fished forth a purse, and, accidentally, along with it, his business card, which, ... ... you. A fresh and liberal construction would teach us to regard those four players—indeed, this whole cabin-full of players—as play- ing at games in w... ...me,” luxuriously laying himself back, and cast- ing a free glance upon the players, “fares all paid; digestion sound; care, toil, penury, grief, unkno... ...stful fraternity with which, when standing, the less strong of the Siamese twins habitually leans against the other. The Missourian eyed them in silen... ...ell you one, sir?” “Excuse me, my fine fellow, but I never use such black- smiths’ things.” “Those who give the blacksmith most work seldom do,” said ...

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... its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and so forth. Y.M. You have arrived at man, now? O.M. Yes. Man the machine—man the... ...ame he will go to the field—not because his spirit will be entirely com fortable there, but because it will be more comfortable there than it would... ...it of the average infidel, I think. O.M. And many a missionary, sternly fortified by his sense of duty, would not have been troubled by the pagan m... ...ble able able able O.M. I will. There was once a pair of New England boys— twins. They were alike in good dispositions, feckless mor als, and persona... ...oung men they were, too—of good families, and brought up in the church. Ed Smith, the printer’s apprentice, nineteen, had been the head Sunday school ... ...who ever commanded a connected battle front twelve hundred miles long, the smith who welded together the broken parts of a great republic and re estab... ...their warfare by hiding in the bushes and then scalping them. Captain John Smith has been styled the father of his country. His life was saved by his ... ...pened to Shakespeare , so far as anybody knows. Mark T wain 205 Then came twins—1585. February. T wo blank years follow. Then—1587—he makes a ten yea... ...f him as an actor. Next year—1593—his name appears in the official list of players. Next year—1594—he played before the queen. A detail of no conseque...

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...elf, than with a hopeful glance to- wards the time when I shall again put forth my two green leaves once a month, and with a faith- 4 David Copperfi... ...soon be quite comfort- able, I hope, returned Mr. Chillip. Quite as com- fortable as we can expect a young mother to be, under these melancholy dome... ... Vol. I Master Davy, how should you like to go along with me and spend a fortnight at my brother s at Yarmouth? Wouldn t that be a treat? Is your ... ...shipwrights yards, ship-breakers yards, caulkers yards, riggers lofts, smiths forges, and a great litter of such places, until we came out upon t... ...to delude the neighbours), with a baby at her breast. This baby was one of twins; and I may remark here that I hardly ever, in all my expe- rience of ... ...ere that I hardly ever, in all my expe- rience of the family, saw both the twins de- tached from Mrs. Micawber at the same time. One of them was alway... ...was so full of the subject that she would have talked about it to the very twins if there had been nobody else to communicate with, but this was the s... ...ad seen the cards shuffled, and cut, and played, and had talked to all the players about it, and now came fresh, as judges, to settle the matter to th...

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...g. ... The best whales were catched in his own country, of which some were forty-eight, some fifty yards long. He said that he was one of six who had ... ...st love, who had been killed by a whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years ago.” —Ibid. “No, Sir, ’tis a Right Whale,” answered T om; “I s... ...d in the wake of the whale, As it floundered in the sea.” —Elizabeth Oakes Smith. “The quantity of line withdrawn from the boats engaged in the captur... ...where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones—so goes the story—to throw a... ...more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will not say... ...torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke over a village of smithies; and to windward, a black cloud, rising up with earnest of squalls... ... or the Ram; Taurus, or the Bull and Jimimi! here’s Gemini himself, or the Twins. Well; the sun he wheels among ‘em. Aye, here on the coin he’s just c... ...en, T aurus, or the Bull— he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins—that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Can-... ...rawn, just as plainly prove that the high-bred, stall-fed, prize cattle of Smithfield, not only equal, but far ex- ceed in magnitude the fattest of Ph...

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...whilst the duel’s compensating pleasurable thrill was lacking. Finally the doctor finished, and the men who were to fight the closing battle of the da... ...of the day came forth. A good many din- ners were not completed, yet, but no matter, they could be eaten cold, after the battle; therefore everybody c... ...t had not seen a victim wince, nor heard a moan, or detected any fleeting expression which confessed the sharp pain the hurts were inflicting. This wa... ...ra, but not fond of sitting in the presence of an audience; therefore, it has some- times occurred, in Munich, that when an opera has been concluded a... ... off their paint and finery, a command has come to them to get their paint and finery on again. Presently the King would arrive, solitary and alone, a... ...y I’ve got to linger 99 A Tramp Abroad till the old man says come!—and you bet your bottom dollar, Johnny, it ain’t just as easy as it is for a cat t... ...us announcement made in their Brisbane telegram of the 2d inst., published in our impression of the 5th inst., stating that “Lady Kennedy had given bi... ...y Kennedy had given birth to twins, the eldest being a son.” The Company explain that the message they received contained the words “Governor of Queen... ...e, in the hall of our hotel, and a metal plate on the door of a room upstairs bore an inscrip- tion to the effect that that room had been occupied by ...

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... * * * The best whales were catched in his own country, of which some were forty eight, some fifty yards long. He said that he was one of six who had k... ...rst love, who had been killed by a whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years ago.” Ibid. Extracts 11 “No, Sir, ’tis a Right Whale,” answere... ...med in the wake of the whale, As it floundered in the sea.” Elizabeth Oakes Smith. “The quantity of line withdrawn from the different boats engaged in ... ... where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobble stones — so goes the story — to th... ...more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will not say... ...torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke over a village of smithies; and to windward, a black cloud, rising up with earnest of squalls... ... the Ram; Taurus, or the Bull; — and Jimini! here’s Gemini himself, or the Twins. Well; the sun he wheels among ’em. Aye, here on the coin he’s just c... ...hen, Taurus, or the Bull — he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins — that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Ca... ...rawn, just as plainly prove that the high bred, stall fed, prize cattle of Smithfield, not only equal, but far ex ceed in magnitude the fattest of Pha...

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..., this was but conjecture, and the whole series of actions was so idly put forth as to make it rash to assert that intention had any part in them at a... ...th. Beside the provisions lay the flute, whose notes had lately been called forth by the lonely watcher to beguile a tedious hour. The house was ventil... ...ich gorgeous constellation never burnt more vividly than now, as it soared forth above the rim of the land scape. Castor and Pollux with their quiet ... ...ning down an obscure street and entering an obscurer lane, he went up to a smith’s shop. ‘How long would it take you to make a shepherd’s crook?’ ‘Twe... ... last fortnight. Cainy and I haven’t tined our eyes to night.’ ‘A good few twins, too, I hear?’ ‘Too many by half. Yes; ’tis a very queer lambing this... ... which is performed whenever an ewe has lost her own offspring, one of the twins of another ewe being given her as a substitute. Gabriel had skinned t... ...n front of which the ground was trodden hard and bare as a pavement by the players. She could see the brown and black heads of the young lads darting ... ... for a quarter of an hour or so, when the game concluded abruptly, and the players leapt over the wall and vanished round to the other side behind a y... ...olden foliage, on which the branches traced black lines. ‘Why did the base players finish their game so suddenly?’ Bathsheba inquired, the next time th...

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... 1830, Mr. Patteson was raised to the Bench, at the unusually early age of forty. It is probable that there never was a period when the Judi- cial Ben... ... only one who is sent up; which is a good thing for me, as it will give me forty or fifty good marks in trials. I am so splitting with joy you cannot ... ...we are giving of our best, as our Church is giving of her best, in sending forth from her own bosom these cherished and chosen sons, so let there go f... ...as well enough to be reckoned on as a substitute in case any of the actual players had been disabled. Possibly his accident was good for his studies, ... ... ful. On the Saturday he writes:— ‘The scholarship was decided last night; Smith, a Rugby man, got the first, and Grant, a Harrow man, the second.... ... ...hat the sunshine has come again.’ There were, however, two more deaths—the twins of Mwerlau. Clement died on the 24th of May; the other brother, Richa... ...doubt a relief, though hard work in itself. Of the four lads we lost, two, twins, had been some time christened, one was baptized before his death, th...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the Second Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius...

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...E SECOND EDITION THE SECOND EDITION THE FIRST EDITION of this tale was put forth without explain- ing the old fable on which it was founded—a fable re... ...ood consisted of half a dozen worn numbers of the T atler, and a Gazette a fortnight old. The chair on which he sat was elbowed, and made easy with cu... ...ed. Every one was laugh- ing, and poor Miss Herries was ready to cry, when forth steps my sister, coaxes the cow, bids the man lend his apron, sits do... ...atfield, laughing, “they be both of ‘em eldest, as one may say.” “They are twins, then?” said Aurelia. “More than that—all three of them came together... ...a out by Windmill hill—Master Brown’s; or Lea Farm, down by the river—T om Smith’s?” “No, this is Mr. Meadows’s, a grazier.” “Never heard tell on him,... ... fat lady, and another time was actually pursued into a troop of strolling players, attiring themselves in a barn, whence she came with cheeks freshly...

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...days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self interest, and fortune’s changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scatte... ...and side the way.’ ‘I shall find it,’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘Come on Thursday fortnight, and bring the other chaps with you,’ said Mr. Bob Sawyer; ‘I’m g... ...rchment, which have been per spiring in secret for the last century, send forth an agreeable odour, which is mingled by day with the scent of the dry... ... Mr. Pickwick! he had never played with three thor ough paced female card players before. They were so des perately sharp, that they quite frightene... ...wick Papers 194 famous coachmen (they are dead now, poor fellows) who were twins, and between whom an unaffected and devoted attachment existed. They ... ... with some adventurous throwers outside, others look ing on at the racket players, or watching the boys as they cried the game. Dirty, slipshod women... ...ogether, in an other; the tumbling of the skittles, and the shouts of the players, mingled perpetually with these and a hundred other sounds; and all... ...Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, after a short absence, returned with a cheque on Smith, Payne, & Smith, for five hundred and thirty pounds; that being the m...

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...ing a wholesome excitement with a prom- ising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the enno- bling pursuit and the healthful recreation... ...deceased, was at all times ready to make oath, and did again and again set forth upon his solemn assevera- tion, that he had frequently heard his gran... ... air of sadness. The fallen leaves, with which the ground was strewn, gave forth a pleas- ant fragrance, and subduing all harsh sounds of distant feet... ...ion, sparkled too, and shed its red-hot gems around profusely . The strong smith and his men dealt such strokes upon their work, as made even the mela... ...up on end in a fender, and joined together on the principle of the Siamese Twins. Before it, swinging himself in a rocking-chair , lounged a large gen... ...he bird-fancier’s, and was knocked up again that very night for a birth of twins; Mr Mould dined gayly in the bosom of his family, and passed the even... ...ravel by, and some to spare. Yoho, beside the village green, where cricket-players linger yet, and every little in- dentation made in the fresh grass ... ...sons! or darters either! Suppose you was to favour us with some remarks on twins, sir, WOULD you be so good!’ The bitter and indignant sarcasm which M...

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...his scat- tered works. It is probably in this direction that the hazard of fortune has most discoveries and surprises in store for the lucky searcher.... ...f admirably to the purpose; the instrument was ready, but the hand was not forthcoming. Neither is there any Spanish translation, a fact which can be ... ... Prince of Achaia, 2139 B.C., who was surnamed (Greek), that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved. A Gascon could not have surpassed this. Gif... ...e, and other their neighbours, all stiff drinkers, brave fellows, and good players at the kyles. The good man Grangousier took great pleasure in their... ... giant, but he did him no more hurt than you would do with a fillip upon a smith’s anvil. In the (mean) time Loupgarou was drawing his mace out of the... ... the poet blazons? Nay, I am neither a cripple, coiner of false money, nor smith, as he was. My wife possibly will be as comely and handsome as ever w... ...rds dis- solute mariners and seafaring men, in Vulcan, towards loi- tering smiths and forgemen; and so throughout the rest. Now, on the contrary, this... ...hall die? He foolishly answered, No; if Latona, the mother of those lovely twins, Phoebus and Diana, begot thee. Galen, lib. 4, Comment. 6. Epidem., b... ... in our country dwelt there in six different storeys, and that the biggest twins or braces of them were called sixes, and the smallest ambs-ace; the r...

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...ds—’The Parish!’ And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successf... ... present who had not heard the noise. The artifice succeeds. After putting forth his right leg now and then, as a feeler, the victim who dropped the m... ...the name from her brass door-plate, in his attempts to polish it with aqua-fortis. But all this is nothing to his seditious conduct in public life. He... ...her long grace afterwards— the three fates with another sister—the Siamese twins multiplied by two. The eldest Miss Willis grew bilious— the four Miss... ...itorious candidate. ‘Spruggins for Beadle. Ten small children (two of them twins), and a wife!!!’ There was no resisting this; ten small children woul... ...ll children would have been almost irresistible in themselves, without the twins, but the touching pa- renthesis about that interesting production of ... ..., and putting the warrant into his hands folded up like a note, “My name’s Smith,” says he, “and I called from Johnson’s about that business of Thomps... ...uite down on him directly, “How is Thompson?” says he; “Pray sit down, Mr. Smith: John, leave the room.” Out went the servant; and the gentle- man and... ...if those fellows of mine get an inkling of the matter—just step here, Mr. Smith,” says he, after a short pause. So Fixem walks with him up to the win...

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...ustice. Any of these is sufficient to make shipwreck of all peace and com- fort for a family; and often, indeed, it happens that the deso- lation is a... ...e, he is still privileged to regard himself and his friends as amongst the fortunate by comparison, in so far as he has escaped these wholesale storms... ...y for my personal qualities, apart from any advan- tages I might draw from fortune or inheritance; I had reason to think myself popular amongst the ve... ... tablet, with a bas-relief in white marble, to the memory of two children, twins, who had lived and died at the same time, and in this prison—children... ...niary difference to Urquiza. Thus stood matters, when a party of strolling players strolled into Paita. Kate, as a Spaniard, being one held of the Pai... ...ebrated men whom Coleridge detested, or seemed to detest—Paley, Sir Sidney Smith, Lord Hutchinson, (the last Lord Donoughmore,) and Cuvier. T o Paley ... ...tle is often less of a pagan than Paley. Coleridge’s dislike to Sir Sidney Smith and the Egyptian Lord Hutchinson fell under the category of Martial’s...

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...ll sorrowing under the loss of the main pillar of their house, but sending forth the new founders with good hope. Geraldine had made her home at St. M... ... though the taste of life had gone from her, and there was nothing to call forth her interest or energy. The first thing that roused her was the dange... ... they started to their beloved slum, Emilia looking as if she were setting forth for Elysium, and they were seen no more, even when five o’clock tea w... ... Anna. “And,” said Dolores, “what of the feather screens that the old Miss Smiths have been making all the winter—circles of pheas- ants’ feathers and... ...ul figure, together with the fine features and complexion of the Underwood twins, and the profuse golden flax hair of her aunt Angela, so that she too... .... THE MASQ THE MASQ THE MASQ THE MASQ THE MASQUE UE UE UE UE Your honour’s players, hearing your amendment, Are come to play a pleasant comedy. Taming...

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...nd to see them clearly in a nice relation to the society that brought them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans... ...t prejudice; and it is quite another business to put these writings coldly forth again in a bound volume. We are most of us attached to our opinions; ... ...apology apart, nothing more falls to be said ex- cept upon a remark called forth by my study in the columns of a literary Review. The exact terms in w... ...d “orders within three weeks at latest to repair aboard the Nancy, Captain Smith;” now his chest was already on the road to Greenock; and now, in the ... ...e act-drop fell upon a scene of transformation. Jean was brought to bed of twins, and, by an amicable arrangement, the Burnses took the boy to bring u... ... the juggler; or it might be three high English minstrels; or the two men, players of ghitterns, from the kingdom of Scot- land, who sang the destruct... ...Negre, the Lombard, came to Blois and played chess against all these chess-players, and won much money from my lord and his intimates; or when Baudet ...