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Then, coming into the drawing-room, Babie perched herself on his knee, and began, without the slightest preparation, the recitation of Cowper's "Colubriad": "Fast by the threshold of a door nailed fast Three kittens sat, each kitten looked aghast." And just as she had with great excitement "Taught him never to come there no more," Armine broke in with "Nine times one are nine."
Continuation from July 1789 to July 1790 Author travels to Paris to promote the abolition in France attends the committees of the Friends of the Negros Counter attempts of the committee of White Colonists An account of the deputies of Colour Meeting at the Duke de la Rochefoucauld's Mirabeau espouses the cause canvasses the National Assembly Distribution of the section of the slave-ship there Character of Brissot Author leaves Paris and returns to England Examination of merchants' and planters' evidence resumed in the House of Commons Author travels in search of evidence in favour of the abolition Opposition to the hearing of it This evidence is at length introduced Renewal of Sir William Dolben's bill Distribution of the section of the slave-ship in England and of Cowper's Negro's Complaint and of Wedgewood's Cameos.
The urinary excretion from the kidneys collecting in the urinary bladder is passed out periodically through the urethra. This same channel must transmit periodically secretions from the sexual apparatus. b. =Cowper's Glands= secrete only under sexual excitement, and usually they secrete only when the sexual excitement reaches a stage which induces an erection.
One I had One, more than all my sons, the strength of Troy, Whom, standing for his country, thou hast slain Hector. His body to redeem I come Into Achaia's fleet, bringing, myself, Ransom inestimable to thy tent. COWPER'S Trans. Achilles, moved with compassion, granted the request of the grief-stricken father, and sent him home with the body of his son.
Her eagerness, her impatience, her longings to be with them, were such as to bring a line or two of Cowper's Tirocinium for ever before her. "With what intense desire she wants her home," was continually on her tongue, as the truest description of a yearning which she could not suppose any schoolboy's bosom to feel more keenly.
The Prayers and Meditations may not be an edifying book in Cowper's sense of the word; there is nothing triumphant about it; it is full of infirmities and even absurdities; but, for all that, it contains more piety than 10,000 religious biographies. Nor must the evidence it contains of weakness be exaggerated.
Cowper's excellent cutting-out book, she soon became mistress of the whole art. She not only had the girls taught to make and mend, but to wash and iron too. She also allowed the mother or eldest daughter of every family to come once a week, and learn how to dress one cheap dish. One Friday, which was cooking day, who should pass but the squire, with his gun and dogs.
Distribution of the section of the slave-ship in England; and of Cowper's Negro's Complaint; and of Wedgewood's Cameos. We usually find, as we give ourselves up to reflection, some little mitigation of the afflictions we experience; and yet of the evils which come upon us, some are often so heavy as to overpower the sources of consolation for a time, and to leave us wretched.
The above lines of Cowper's exactly, describe the keeper's Irish terrier; the dog was almost as deep and mysterious as the man himself.
"Eel," said a bystander, "that is a military fish I never heard of;" but another at once enlightened his mind by saying to the count, "General Lord Hill is now Commander-in-Chief of the British forces!" Cowper's "John Gilpin."
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