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... Nature , by several Full - Page Engravings , and a Permanent Photograph . Large post Svo . cloth , gilt edges , 400 ... Nature . " We know no other narrative of travel with which it can be compared . " - Nature . " There has been no book ...
... Nature , by several Full - Page Engravings , and a Permanent Photograph . Large post Svo . cloth , gilt edges , 400 ... Nature . " We know no other narrative of travel with which it can be compared . " - Nature . " There has been no book ...
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... nature ... Not rendering true answer ... I charge thee , quickly go again , As thou art lief and dear , and do the thing I bade thee . " Prose . Then Sir Bedivere returned again , and took the sword in his hand ... and thought it sin ...
... nature ... Not rendering true answer ... I charge thee , quickly go again , As thou art lief and dear , and do the thing I bade thee . " Prose . Then Sir Bedivere returned again , and took the sword in his hand ... and thought it sin ...
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... Nature in that country observing the same proportion through all her operations , a hail- stone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one in Europe . " I have italicized the above words because it would appear from them as though ...
... Nature in that country observing the same proportion through all her operations , a hail- stone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one in Europe . " I have italicized the above words because it would appear from them as though ...
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... nature of the office deters not a few in the present day . ] BARNEFIELDE AN APPROPRIATOR . - That Barne- fielde ( he published his name thus and spelt it privately Barnfild , setting it forth publicly in public costume and leaving it in ...
... nature of the office deters not a few in the present day . ] BARNEFIELDE AN APPROPRIATOR . - That Barne- fielde ( he published his name thus and spelt it privately Barnfild , setting it forth publicly in public costume and leaving it in ...
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... Nature struggled : long and strange her pangs , Her groans were horrible ; but O ! most fair The twins she bore , Equality and Peace . " H. A. KENNEDY . Replies . The Grove , Pocklington . JOHN THOMPSON . BAYNARD'S CASTLE : SIR WALTER ...
... Nature struggled : long and strange her pangs , Her groans were horrible ; but O ! most fair The twins she bore , Equality and Peace . " H. A. KENNEDY . Replies . The Grove , Pocklington . JOHN THOMPSON . BAYNARD'S CASTLE : SIR WALTER ...
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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...
Page 20 - REPORTS of the Learned Societies — AUTHENTIC ACCOUNTS of Scientific Voyages and Expeditions...