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... NOTICE . - NOTES AND QUERIES will in future be published at a more commodious Office , No. 43 , WELLINGTON STREET , STRAND , W.C. , immediately opposite the present Premises - to which Office all Communications for the Editor or ...
... NOTICE . - NOTES AND QUERIES will in future be published at a more commodious Office , No. 43 , WELLINGTON STREET , STRAND , W.C. , immediately opposite the present Premises - to which Office all Communications for the Editor or ...
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... Notices to Correspondents . REMOVAL OF OFFICE OF " NOTES AND QUERIES . " In future " NOTES AND QUERIES commodious ... notice for its illustrations of the Paris of the world's progress in the social , useful , and orna- mental arts ...
... Notices to Correspondents . REMOVAL OF OFFICE OF " NOTES AND QUERIES . " In future " NOTES AND QUERIES commodious ... notice for its illustrations of the Paris of the world's progress in the social , useful , and orna- mental arts ...
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... NOTICE . This ATLAS includes all the Countries of Europe in a series of Forty - eight Maps , drawn on the same scale , with an Alpha- betical Index to the situation of more than 10,000 places ; and the re- ation of the various Maps and ...
... NOTICE . This ATLAS includes all the Countries of Europe in a series of Forty - eight Maps , drawn on the same scale , with an Alpha- betical Index to the situation of more than 10,000 places ; and the re- ation of the various Maps and ...
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... notice , and appeared to know nothing about them . At last the king showed him a picture of the Crucifixion , which was placed between two portraits , but still the wit said he did not know what it meant . “ Why then , " said the king ...
... notice , and appeared to know nothing about them . At last the king showed him a picture of the Crucifixion , which was placed between two portraits , but still the wit said he did not know what it meant . “ Why then , " said the king ...
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... notice made of it ? W. C. J. CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH BY AN ARCH- DEACON . - It is stated in Newcourt's Repertorium ( vol . ii . p . 84 ) that the church of Woodham- Walter , in Essex , being fallen very much into decay , and standing ...
... notice made of it ? W. C. J. CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH BY AN ARCH- DEACON . - It is stated in Newcourt's Repertorium ( vol . ii . p . 84 ) that the church of Woodham- Walter , in Essex , being fallen very much into decay , and standing ...
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Page 72 - Tis morn; but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye Brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry! Few, few shall part, where many meet! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 288 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 203 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed ; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 133 - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, "All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient." And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
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Page 293 - And note, that there shall be for every Male child to be baptized two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for every Female, one Godfather and two Godmothers.
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Page 260 - DICTIONARY of GENERAL BIOGRAPHY; containing Concise Memoirs and Notices of the most Eminent Persons of all Countries, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. Edited by WLR CATES. 8vo. 21s. LIVES of the QUEENS of ENGLAND.
Page 134 - ... to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.
Page 203 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west...