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... respecting the population revenue and trade of Ireland ; and I believe it is scarce , as I have not often met with it , nor do I remember to have heard it quoted on either side during the warm disputes about the commercial intercourse ...
... respecting the population revenue and trade of Ireland ; and I believe it is scarce , as I have not often met with it , nor do I remember to have heard it quoted on either side during the warm disputes about the commercial intercourse ...
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... respecting the prevalence of geometrical studies amongst the " middle - classes " of England was made by Play - It was blocked up , " imblocatus , " and this mode of fair in the Edinburgh Review many years ago , which is quite ...
... respecting the prevalence of geometrical studies amongst the " middle - classes " of England was made by Play - It was blocked up , " imblocatus , " and this mode of fair in the Edinburgh Review many years ago , which is quite ...
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... . Can any of your readers inform me when and where he died , and whether any particulars are known respecting him after his retirement abroad , and when his marriage took place with his wife Lady 22 [ No. 32 . NOTES AND QUERIES .
... . Can any of your readers inform me when and where he died , and whether any particulars are known respecting him after his retirement abroad , and when his marriage took place with his wife Lady 22 [ No. 32 . NOTES AND QUERIES .
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... respecting the Jews during the Common- wealth . Dean Tucker , in his Second Letter to a Friend concerning Naturalisation , says ( p . 29. ) : — " The Jews having departed out of the realm in the year 1290 , or being expelled by the ...
... respecting the Jews during the Common- wealth . Dean Tucker , in his Second Letter to a Friend concerning Naturalisation , says ( p . 29. ) : — " The Jews having departed out of the realm in the year 1290 , or being expelled by the ...
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... respecting innate ideas . Locke had been tutor both to Lord Shaftesbury and his father : - " Mr. Locke , much as I honour him , and well as I know him , and can answer for his sincerity as a most zealous Christian believer , has ...
... respecting innate ideas . Locke had been tutor both to Lord Shaftesbury and his father : - " Mr. Locke , much as I honour him , and well as I know him , and can answer for his sincerity as a most zealous Christian believer , has ...
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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...
Page 372 - And the Lord answered me, and said, "Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
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.
Page 127 - Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain ; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing: But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view...
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...