The History of Sandford and MertonJ.F. Dove; and sold by all the booksellers in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1826 - 432 pages |
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Page 179 - The ass was restless, and the goats kept bleating for some days ; after which they heard no more of them. Two of the goats, however, being...
Page 131 - ... she returned, and smelling round them, began to lick their wounds. She went off a second time as before ; and having crawled a few paces, looked again behind her, and for some time stood moaning. But still her cubs not rising to follow her, she returned to them again, and with signs of inexpressible fondness went round one, and round the other, pawing them and moaning.
Page 180 - ... could reach it, and then, when it was beyond her reach, the goats climbed upon her shoulders, and reached it themselves. On the sixth day the boy sickened, and six days after desired his mother, who all this time had held him in her lap, to lay him at his length in the manger. She did so, and taking him by the hand, felt it was very cold ; she then put her hand to his mouth, and finding that cold likewise, she gave him a little milk ; the boy then cried, ' Oh, my father is in the snow ! Oh, father,...
Page 70 - ... it up from the outer air, the other to form a communication with the inner room : this contributed greatly to keep the large room warm when once heated.
Page 93 - ... and were going to strip him of his clothes ; but, just as they were beginning to do it, the little dog bit the leg of one of the men with so much violence, that he left the little Boy, and pursued the dog, that ran howling and barking away. In this instant a voice was heard that cried out, * There the rascals are; let us knock them down!
Page 131 - Though she was sorely wounded, and could but just crawl to the place where they lay, she carried the lump of flesh she had fetched away, as she had done...
Page 72 - This lucky circumstance was attended with another equally fortunate ; they found on the shore the root of a fir-tree which nearly approached to the figure of a bow. As necessity has ever been the mother of invention, so...
Page 73 - ... it and widening a hole it happened to have about its middle, with the help of one of their largest nails; this received the handle, and a round button at one end of the hook served for the face of the hammer. A large pebble supplied the place of an anvil, and a couple of rein-deer's horns made the tongs.
Page 380 - If women are in general feeble both in body and mind, it arises less from nature than from education. We encourage a vicious indolence and inactivity, which we falsely call delicacy; instead of hardening their minds by the severer principles of reason and philosophy, we breed them to useless arts, which terminate in vanity and sensuality. In most of the countries which I had visited, they are taught nothing...
Page 8 - Very near to Mr. Merton's seat lived a plain honest farmer, whose name was Sandford. This man had, like Mr. Merton, an only son, not much older than Master Merton, whose name was Harry. Harry, as he had...