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... fact consist of three parts, which must be ranged under three different heads, and dealt with in three different ways. A little, modest, demure- looking Query slips into print, and by the time it has been in print a fortnight, we find ...
... fact consist of three parts, which must be ranged under three different heads, and dealt with in three different ways. A little, modest, demure- looking Query slips into print, and by the time it has been in print a fortnight, we find ...
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... fact , if not our highest praise , it is the plainest proof of the value of our publication , that we have done little or nothing except to give the reader the greatest possible quantity of matter in a legible form , wholly unassisted ...
... fact , if not our highest praise , it is the plainest proof of the value of our publication , that we have done little or nothing except to give the reader the greatest possible quantity of matter in a legible form , wholly unassisted ...
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... fact consist of three parts , which must be ranged under three different heads , and dealt with in three different ways . A little , modest , demure- looking QUERY slips into print , and by the time it has been in print a fortnight , we ...
... fact consist of three parts , which must be ranged under three different heads , and dealt with in three different ways . A little , modest , demure- looking QUERY slips into print , and by the time it has been in print a fortnight , we ...
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... fact of Queen Philippa fate . taking possession of Jean d'Acre's property , and the doubt cast upon Eustache's loyalty ; but she would appear to justify him by reason of King Philip's abandoning the brave Calaisiens to their However ...
... fact of Queen Philippa fate . taking possession of Jean d'Acre's property , and the doubt cast upon Eustache's loyalty ; but she would appear to justify him by reason of King Philip's abandoning the brave Calaisiens to their However ...
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... fact , that while the animals were under the care of the Saxon thralls and herdsmen , they retained of course their Saxon names ; but when served up at the tables of their Norman lords , it became necessary to name them afresh . I think ...
... fact , that while the animals were under the care of the Saxon thralls and herdsmen , they retained of course their Saxon names ; but when served up at the tables of their Norman lords , it became necessary to name them afresh . I think ...
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Page 93 - When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee come out of him, and enter no more into him. 26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
Page 121 - I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Page 175 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 164 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 227 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud. By T. BOWDLEB, Esq. FRS New Edition, in Volumes for the Pocket ; with 36 Wood Engravings, from Designs by Smirke, Howard, and other Artists.
Page 343 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 391 - Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder : the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Page 255 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 350 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Page 305 - ... next came the queen, in the sixtyfifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant ; her nose a little hooked ; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar...