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... believe the true name was Deloene , but should be glad to learn from whence he came . 2. The Fleming was certainly Martinus Micro- nius , some of whose letters written in London are printed in the collection from Zurich printed for the ...
... believe the true name was Deloene , but should be glad to learn from whence he came . 2. The Fleming was certainly Martinus Micro- nius , some of whose letters written in London are printed in the collection from Zurich printed for the ...
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... believe in Liverpool . If any correspon- dent of " N. & Q. " has a copy of the first number , I should feel very much obliged by the loan of it for a few days . WILLIAM J. THOMS . 40. St. George's Square , Belgrave Road , S. W. CHARLES ...
... believe in Liverpool . If any correspon- dent of " N. & Q. " has a copy of the first number , I should feel very much obliged by the loan of it for a few days . WILLIAM J. THOMS . 40. St. George's Square , Belgrave Road , S. W. CHARLES ...
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... believe , nearly ready ; and we congratu- late the Members of the Chetham Society on this wide and wise extension of its objects . Miscellaneous . NOTES ON BOOKS . Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation ...
... believe , nearly ready ; and we congratu- late the Members of the Chetham Society on this wide and wise extension of its objects . Miscellaneous . NOTES ON BOOKS . Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation ...
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... believe that a certain " clever man , " who was conversant with chemistry and electricity , and who had formerly resided in Ren- frew , took a special interest in the book . But then even Mr. Dick's inference , that the man who asked ...
... believe that a certain " clever man , " who was conversant with chemistry and electricity , and who had formerly resided in Ren- frew , took a special interest in the book . But then even Mr. Dick's inference , that the man who asked ...
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... cairn : if they fail to do it , they believe sickness and other ills As included in the volume of Collected Essays ( Long- mans , 1855 ) . will befall them . It seems to be a species 2nd S. X. JULY 14. '60 . ] 25 NOTES AND QUERIES .
... cairn : if they fail to do it , they believe sickness and other ills As included in the volume of Collected Essays ( Long- mans , 1855 ) . will befall them . It seems to be a species 2nd S. X. JULY 14. '60 . ] 25 NOTES AND QUERIES .
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Page 286 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Page 302 - I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God, I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Page 245 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 222 - Think what with them they would do That without them dare to woo ; And unless that mind I see, What care I how great she be ? Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne'er the more despair: If she love me, this believe, I will die ere she shall grieve : If she slight me when I woo, I can scorn and let her go ; For if she be not for me, What care I for whom she be ? George Wither.
Page 274 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 305 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he mauna fa' that! For a
Page 141 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Page 206 - They lived together on the Banke side, not far from the Play-house, both batchelors; lay together; had one wench in the house between them, which they did so admire; the same cloathes and cloake, &c., betweene them.
Page 376 - Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 150 - I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.