Curiosities of CivilizationR. Hardwicke, 1860 - 535 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adulterated advertisements animal annatto appear Arsenal asylums barrels Belgium Braidwood brown rat building called carnivora cause cent chicory coast Colney Hatch colour common Company costermongers Covent Garden dangerous disease Eastern Counties Railway electric employed engines England entirely establishment fact feet fire fish Foot Guards gardens Gheel give ground gutta percha hand Hanwell horses inmates insane instance iron kind labour late less letter light Liverpool London London Gazette look lunatics machine manner manufacture means meat ment metal metropolis miles morning needle neighbourhood night paper passed patients perhaps persons poisonous police portion present produce prove quantity railway Sebastopol seen ship side Smithfield soldier speedily station Street supply telegraph thieves thousand tion town trade vessels watch whilst wire
Popular passages
Page 10 - THAT Excellent and by all Physitians approved China Drink called by the Chineans Tcha, by other Nations Tay alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness Head Cophee-Honse, in Sweetings Rents, by the Royal Exchange, London.
Page 76 - Had I but all of them, thee and thy treasures, What a wild crowd of invisible pleasures! To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket!
Page 12 - The ready and easy Way to establish a free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, compared with the Inconveniences and Dangers of re-admitting Kingship in this Nation.
Page 454 - Bow-street day patrol, obtained in 1828 the appointment of a committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the expediency of...
Page 21 - To church, where I found that my coming in a perriwigg did not prove so strange as I was afraid it would, for I thought that all the church would presently have cast their eyes all upon me, but I found no such thing.2 9th.
Page 88 - In the most literal of senses, "the earth hath bubbles as the water hath ; and these are of them.
Page 118 - ... he could pick up. This last place he seemed to appropriate for his dwelling: the former work seemed to be intended for a dam. When he had walled up the space between the feet of the chest of drawers, he proceeded to carry in sticks, cloths, hay, cotton, and to make a nest ; and when he had done he would sit up under the drawers and comb himself with the nails of his hind feet.
Page 118 - This pause was sometimes followed by changing the position of the material judged ; and sometimes it was left in its place. After he had piled up his materials in one part of the room (for he generally chose the same place), he proceeded to wall up the space between the feet of a chest of drawers which stood at a little distance from it, high enough on its legs to make the bottom a roof for him ; using for this purpose dried turf and sticks, which he laid very evenly, and filling up the interstices...
Page 63 - ... the superintendent took a small porcelain spoon, and with it he scattered a portion of the colouring matter over the leaves in each pan. The workmen then turned the leaves rapidly round with both hands, in order that the colour might be equally diffused.
Page 430 - ... one from the other; for the heat, with a long set of fair and warm weather, had even ignited the air and prepared the materials to conceive the fire, which devoured after an incredible manner, houses, furniture and everything.