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Página 18 - Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear.
Página 177 - I remember when its beams were hung with garlands in honour of young women of the parish, reputed to have died virgins ; and recollect to have seen the clerk's wife cutting, in white paper, the resemblances of gloves, and ribbons to be twisted into knots and roses, to decorate these memorials of chastity.
Página 182 - Here come I, old Father Christmas, Welcome, or welcome not, I hope old Father Christmas Will never be forgot.
Página 48 - The law only forbids men to do what their instincts incline them to do; what nature itself prohibits and punishes, it would be superfluous for the law to prohibit and punish. Accordingly we may always safely assume that crimes forbidden by law are crimes which many men have a natural propensity to commit.
Página 49 - But variations, here as elsewhere, would naturally present themselves ; and those of our ancestors who avoided in-and-in breeding would survive, while the others would gradually decay and ultimately perish. Thus an instinct would be developed which would be powerful enough, as a rule, to prevent injurious unions.
Página viii - IN THE CHAIR. THE minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and confirmed. The...
Página 189 - ... cover. Lastly, we fetched some strings of dried squash and laid them on the tent cover. Of dried squash, I fetched but one string at a time, doubled and folded over my left arm. A string of dried squash, as I have said, was always seven Indian fathoms long; and I have described an Indian fathom as the distance from the tips of the fingers of one hand to the tips of the fingers of the other, with both hands outstretched at either side. As these measurements were made by the women workers, an Indian...
Página 7 - Mary mild, fetch home your child, for ours he's drowned each one. So Mary mild fetched home her child, and laid him across her knee, and with a handful of withy twigs she gave him slashes three. Ay, bitter withy! Ay, bitter withy! You've caused me to smart. And the withy shall be the very first tree to perish at the heart!
Página 98 - . . . It is equally appropriate that the worshipper should dress himself in the skin of a victim, and so, as it were, envelop himself in its sanctity. To rude nations dress is not merely a physical comfort, but a fixed part of social religion, a thing by which a man constantly bears on his body the token of his religion, and which is itself a charm and a means of divine protection.
Página 281 - ... fountain described in the text was a theory that sprang from the brains of the Christian Mamluks. 2 A fair description of the still favourite vehicles, the Shugduf, Takht-rawan, and the Shibriyah. It is almost needless to say that the use of the mariner's compass is unknown to the guides in AlHijaz. 3 Wonderful tales are still told about this same Momiya (mummy). I was assured by an Arab physician, that he had broken a fowl's leg, and bound it tightly with a cloth containing man's dried flesh,...