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... narrative , the facts recorded being all taken from Cicero's own writings , and the very language itself being his . The title of the work , therefore , is by no means a misnomer , as one would at first suppose , but the Roman is really ...
... narrative , the facts recorded being all taken from Cicero's own writings , and the very language itself being his . The title of the work , therefore , is by no means a misnomer , as one would at first suppose , but the Roman is really ...
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... narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition , with the publications of the scientific corps , in large paper quarto , and atlases in folio . This last work is not to be found complete in any other private collection in the city ...
... narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition , with the publications of the scientific corps , in large paper quarto , and atlases in folio . This last work is not to be found complete in any other private collection in the city ...
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... Narration historique fait par les huit navires d'Amsterdam , etc. " Amsterdam , 1601 , fol . plates ; " Vraie Description des Trois Voyages de mer tres - admirables , & c . par Girard le Ver , " Amst . 1598 , fol . plates ...
... Narration historique fait par les huit navires d'Amsterdam , etc. " Amsterdam , 1601 , fol . plates ; " Vraie Description des Trois Voyages de mer tres - admirables , & c . par Girard le Ver , " Amst . 1598 , fol . plates ...
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... narratives of the early settlers and travellers in that part of the American continent , and when he finally aban- doned his purpose , he presented to Mr. Brevoort the most rare and curious of these books , among which were : Smith's ...
... narratives of the early settlers and travellers in that part of the American continent , and when he finally aban- doned his purpose , he presented to Mr. Brevoort the most rare and curious of these books , among which were : Smith's ...
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... narrative the following droll anecdote is given : " About the 15th of August [ 1675 ] , Captain Mosely , with sixty men , met with a company , judged about three hundred Indians , in a plain place where few trees were , and on both ...
... narrative the following droll anecdote is given : " About the 15th of August [ 1675 ] , Captain Mosely , with sixty men , met with a company , judged about three hundred Indians , in a plain place where few trees were , and on both ...
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Page 354 - I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 311 - He spurred his courser on, Without stop or stay, down the rocky way, That leads to Brotherstone. He went not with the bold Buccleuch, His banner broad to rear; He went not 'gainst the English yew, To lift the Scottish spear. Yet his plate-jack...
Page 77 - The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants.
Page 83 - And unto this impression is added seven playes, never before printed in folio. Viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London ProdigalL The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine.
Page 249 - Being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England, from the First Planting thereof in the year 1607 to this present year, 1677.
Page 78 - The | Whole Contention | betweene the two Famous | Houses, LANCASTER and | YORKE. | With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, | and King Henrie the \ sixt. \ Diuided into two Parts: And newly corrected and | enlarged. Written by William Shakespeare, Gent. | Printed at LONDON, for TP...
Page 32 - I was passionately fond as a boy (it was one of the Greek plays we read thrice a year at Harrow) ; indeed that and the ' Medea' were the only ones, except the ' Seven before Thebes,
Page 429 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 108 - A SHORT STORY OF THE RISE, REIGN AND RUIN OF THE ANTINOMIANS, FAMILISTS AND LIBERTINES THAT INFECTED THE CHURCHES OF NEW ENGLAND...
Page 2 - a passion for possessing books; not so much to be instructed by them, as to gratify the eye by looking on them. He who is affected by this mania knows books only by their titles and dates, and is rather seduced by the exterior than the interior.