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... celebrated political leader ; Sir Aston Cockayn , the poet ; Sir Thomas Fanshawe ; Anthony Babington , who was cruelly beheaded by Elizabeth for conspiring in favour of Mary Queen of Scots ; President Bradshaw , who signed the death ...
... celebrated political leader ; Sir Aston Cockayn , the poet ; Sir Thomas Fanshawe ; Anthony Babington , who was cruelly beheaded by Elizabeth for conspiring in favour of Mary Queen of Scots ; President Bradshaw , who signed the death ...
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... celebrated tower of St. Mary Magdalene , at Taunton , 22 feet higher than Doncaster , 42 feet higher than that at Wrexham , and 52 feet higher than the tower of Magdalene College , Oxford ; whilst it also exceeds very considerably in ...
... celebrated tower of St. Mary Magdalene , at Taunton , 22 feet higher than Doncaster , 42 feet higher than that at Wrexham , and 52 feet higher than the tower of Magdalene College , Oxford ; whilst it also exceeds very considerably in ...
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... celebrated Countess of Shrewsbury , of whom Lodge says , ' she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct , proud , furious , selfish , and unfeeling . She was a builder , a buyer and seller of estates , a money lender , a ...
... celebrated Countess of Shrewsbury , of whom Lodge says , ' she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct , proud , furious , selfish , and unfeeling . She was a builder , a buyer and seller of estates , a money lender , a ...
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... celebrated Henry Cavendish , grand- son to the third Duke of Devonshire , who was one of the most eminent chemists and natural philosophers of the age , and in the same vault also are the remains of the brave Earl of Nor- thampton , who ...
... celebrated Henry Cavendish , grand- son to the third Duke of Devonshire , who was one of the most eminent chemists and natural philosophers of the age , and in the same vault also are the remains of the brave Earl of Nor- thampton , who ...
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... celebrated Dr. Darwin , author of " The Loves of the Plants , " " The Botanic Garden , " " Zoonomia , " etc. etc. He was called on in his capacity of physician to attend a Colonel Pole , near Derby , who dying , left a widow , whom the ...
... celebrated Dr. Darwin , author of " The Loves of the Plants , " " The Botanic Garden , " " Zoonomia , " etc. etc. He was called on in his capacity of physician to attend a Colonel Pole , near Derby , who dying , left a widow , whom the ...
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Page 96 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 120 - With boughs that quaked at every breath, Grey birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And higher yet the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.
Page 61 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Page 120 - Boon nature scattered, free and wild, Each plant or flower, the mountain's child. Here eglantine embalmed the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower...
Page i - Second: exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science, since the revival of Letters in Europe.
Page 86 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe, and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 135 - So beauteous did the scenery of this delightful spot appear to him, that, to use his own words, " the pleasantness of the river, mountains, and meadows about it, cannot be described, unless Sir Philip Sidney, or Mr. Cotton's father were again alive to do it.
Page 34 - Grace, since the weather did cut off all exercises abroad, how she passed the time within ? She said that all day she wrought with her needle, and that the diversity of the colours made the work seem less tedious, and continued so long at it till very pain made her to give over ; and with that laid her hand on her left side, and complained of an old grief newly increased there.
Page 90 - I have joined two others with you, who will take from you the trouble. Your favourable aspect will, I know, be a great comfort to my distressed orphans. I am not desirous that they should be great, but good ; and my next request is, that they may be brought up in the fear and admonition of the Lord.