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... particulars in his life , refers to the accounts of Anthony Wood , Dr. Smith , and the Life prefixed to the English edition of the Britannia , by Gibson , in 1695. Since Anstis wrote , upwards of a century has passed ; and the only ...
... particulars in his life , refers to the accounts of Anthony Wood , Dr. Smith , and the Life prefixed to the English edition of the Britannia , by Gibson , in 1695. Since Anstis wrote , upwards of a century has passed ; and the only ...
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... particulars relative to Sir Robert Rem- ington will be acceptable to C. H. & THOMPSON COOper . Cambridge . VOWEL SOUNDS . - Is there any work in exist- ence tracing the change of sound which the vowels have undergone since printing was ...
... particulars relative to Sir Robert Rem- ington will be acceptable to C. H. & THOMPSON COOper . Cambridge . VOWEL SOUNDS . - Is there any work in exist- ence tracing the change of sound which the vowels have undergone since printing was ...
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... particulars of Charles Johnston , or Johnson , the author of Chrysal ; or , the Adven- tures of a Guinea ? Watkins does not give much respecting him in his Biographical Dictionary ; and the " Sketch of the Author's Life , " prefixed to ...
... particulars of Charles Johnston , or Johnson , the author of Chrysal ; or , the Adven- tures of a Guinea ? Watkins does not give much respecting him in his Biographical Dictionary ; and the " Sketch of the Author's Life , " prefixed to ...
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... Particulars of Price , & c . of the following Books to be sent direct to the gentlemen by whom they are required , and whose name and ad- dress are given for that purpose : ALISON'S EUROPE . Vol . IX . ( 10 Vol . Edition . ) EYRE'S ...
... Particulars of Price , & c . of the following Books to be sent direct to the gentlemen by whom they are required , and whose name and ad- dress are given for that purpose : ALISON'S EUROPE . Vol . IX . ( 10 Vol . Edition . ) EYRE'S ...
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... particulars of that de- scription are in reserve for fresh inquirers . But , as Bacon says , " the opinion of plenty is amongst the causes of want , " and the remark is not inapplicable to this question . We have been over - awed by the ...
... particulars of that de- scription are in reserve for fresh inquirers . But , as Bacon says , " the opinion of plenty is amongst the causes of want , " and the remark is not inapplicable to this question . We have been over - awed by the ...
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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.