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... father and mother of St. Julian , and after that I pray to God and St. Julian to send me a good lodging at night ... father's face explore ; I turn my face following where'er he turns , Still fix'd my pious gaze as round he burns ...
... father and mother of St. Julian , and after that I pray to God and St. Julian to send me a good lodging at night ... father's face explore ; I turn my face following where'er he turns , Still fix'd my pious gaze as round he burns ...
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... father in the limited ranks of earls , with his name are certainly not wanting here ; and the marquises , and dukes . As COL . CHESTER objects qualities which these characters impart to his recent work are all the more valuable that ...
... father in the limited ranks of earls , with his name are certainly not wanting here ; and the marquises , and dukes . As COL . CHESTER objects qualities which these characters impart to his recent work are all the more valuable that ...
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... Father , hee brought me a Letter from Sir John Gell and Sir William Brereton , assuring mee of my Father's death , making strange demands for his body , such as were never before heard of in any warre , as all their Ammunition ...
... Father , hee brought me a Letter from Sir John Gell and Sir William Brereton , assuring mee of my Father's death , making strange demands for his body , such as were never before heard of in any warre , as all their Ammunition ...
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... father of the " Jaques Baudoin " who was elected Deputy Governor of the French Protestant Hospital in 1718. Certainly the latter must , at any rate , have belonged to the same family , so that the arms , if anything can be gathered from ...
... father of the " Jaques Baudoin " who was elected Deputy Governor of the French Protestant Hospital in 1718. Certainly the latter must , at any rate , have belonged to the same family , so that the arms , if anything can be gathered from ...
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... ( father and son ) covering so long a period as 141 years . " The deceased , who had attained his eighty - fifth year , was the son of George Booth , of Cowton , Yorkshire , who was born in 1737 , and died in the ninety - second year of ...
... ( father and son ) covering so long a period as 141 years . " The deceased , who had attained his eighty - fifth year , was the son of George Booth , of Cowton , Yorkshire , who was born in 1737 , and died in the ninety - second year of ...
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Page 70 - That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat. Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery. That aptly is put on.
Page 165 - 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...
Page 101 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
Page 362 - My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Page 243 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 75 - Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
Page 21 - That whistled stiff and dry about the marge. So strode he back slow to the wounded King. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : "Hast thou perform'd my mission which I gave? What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: " I heard the ripple washing in the reeds And the wild water lapping on the crag.
Page 116 - And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Page 94 - Mathematicians, having taken the Height of my Body by the help of a Quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the Proportion of Twelve to One, they concluded...
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