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... mentioned is considered to be rejected ; and so another name is tried , until the book turns round and falls through the fingers , which is held to be a sure token that the name just mentioned is that of an individual who will certainly ...
... mentioned is considered to be rejected ; and so another name is tried , until the book turns round and falls through the fingers , which is held to be a sure token that the name just mentioned is that of an individual who will certainly ...
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... mentioned by Lord Campbell in a note to his life of one of our recent chancellors , but I have not his work to refer to . The post to which this woman was bound stood , till recently , in a field adjoining Winchester . She was condemned ...
... mentioned by Lord Campbell in a note to his life of one of our recent chancellors , but I have not his work to refer to . The post to which this woman was bound stood , till recently , in a field adjoining Winchester . She was condemned ...
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... mention of straw paper , as patented about the time ; but I should think it almost impossible ( knowing how light the Indian rice paper is ) that the heavy fabric above mentioned should be of straw . Is it from wood ? If so , what is ...
... mention of straw paper , as patented about the time ; but I should think it almost impossible ( knowing how light the Indian rice paper is ) that the heavy fabric above mentioned should be of straw . Is it from wood ? If so , what is ...
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... mentioned as " An Umbrella . " E. B. PRICE . [ Mr. St. Croix has also referred Dr. Rimbault to Gay's Trivia . ] Jonas Hanway the philanthropist is reputed first to have used an " umbrella " in England . I am the more inclined to think ...
... mentioned as " An Umbrella . " E. B. PRICE . [ Mr. St. Croix has also referred Dr. Rimbault to Gay's Trivia . ] Jonas Hanway the philanthropist is reputed first to have used an " umbrella " in England . I am the more inclined to think ...
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... mentioned in Vol . i . , p . 302. The poem is not in England's Helicon . The ballad , as in Percy , has four stanzas more than the present copy , and one stanza less . Some of the readings in Percy are better , that is , more probable ...
... mentioned in Vol . i . , p . 302. The poem is not in England's Helicon . The ballad , as in Percy , has four stanzas more than the present copy , and one stanza less . Some of the readings in Percy are better , that is , more probable ...
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Page 304 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 477 - JAMES, by the grace of God, king of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith; and of Scotland the seven and fortieth.
Page 41 - Jehoiakim king of Judah ; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David : and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Page 116 - And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Page 113 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
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Page 446 - I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion.
Page 499 - Diary makes us comprehend the great historical events of the age, and the people who bore a part in them, and gives us more clear glimpses into the true English life of the times than all the other memorials of them that have come down to our own.
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Page 92 - But, as when the sun approaching toward the gates of the morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills...