The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 156Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1834 - English essays |
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... feet one inch in length , and three feet one inch in width , and has been embel- lished with the effigies of a male and female in brass , and four lozenge . shaped panels , two at the head , and as many at the foot , once filled with ...
... feet one inch in length , and three feet one inch in width , and has been embel- lished with the effigies of a male and female in brass , and four lozenge . shaped panels , two at the head , and as many at the foot , once filled with ...
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... feet and half wide . The depth of the buildings is 20 feet , and its width on the inside 12f . 6 in . The opposite side of the Court is occupied by the Church , which stands in a consecrated area of small dimen- sions , and irregular ...
... feet and half wide . The depth of the buildings is 20 feet , and its width on the inside 12f . 6 in . The opposite side of the Court is occupied by the Church , which stands in a consecrated area of small dimen- sions , and irregular ...
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... feet above the level of the sea , he squeezed through a hollow chasm resembling the funnel of a chimney , named the ... feet , itself not being above two feet broad ; this ledge projects so far as to enable him who would venture on it to ...
... feet above the level of the sea , he squeezed through a hollow chasm resembling the funnel of a chimney , named the ... feet , itself not being above two feet broad ; this ledge projects so far as to enable him who would venture on it to ...
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... feet , otherwise rather slender than corpulent . " That Mr. Washington was a most upright trader , we see by the sale of his tobacco ; he carried the same spirit of integrity into his purchases . He wanted to buy a large tract of land ...
... feet , otherwise rather slender than corpulent . " That Mr. Washington was a most upright trader , we see by the sale of his tobacco ; he carried the same spirit of integrity into his purchases . He wanted to buy a large tract of land ...
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... feet high , why has no tiger ever been known ( we believe ) in the annals of Indian hunting , to reach the houdah on the elephant's back ? The story of the enraged elephant transfixing the tiger with his tusks may be true , be- cause ...
... feet high , why has no tiger ever been known ( we believe ) in the annals of Indian hunting , to reach the houdah on the elephant's back ? The story of the enraged elephant transfixing the tiger with his tusks may be true , be- cause ...
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Page 243 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father : and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
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Page 433 - So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man : for the Lord fought for Israel.
Page 446 - O'er Roslin all that dreary night A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam ; 'Twas broader than the watch-fire's light, And redder than the bright moonbeam. It glared on Roslin's castled rock, It ruddied all the copse-wood glen ; 'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from cavern'd Hawthornden.
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