The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character, Volume 2Robert Chambers W. & R. Chambers, 1883 - Anecdotes |
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... France . A youth of nineteen , named the Chevalier de la Barre , was decapitated and then burned at Abbeville , on the FIRST STEAMER ON THE THAMES . 1st of July 1765 , for mutilating a figure of Christ , which stood on the bridge of ...
... France . A youth of nineteen , named the Chevalier de la Barre , was decapitated and then burned at Abbeville , on the FIRST STEAMER ON THE THAMES . 1st of July 1765 , for mutilating a figure of Christ , which stood on the bridge of ...
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... France , Austria , Prussia , and Russia joined in the funeral - procession . Thirty - six carriages brought the senate and magistracy , all the bells tolling ; a military procession contributed to the order and dignity of the scene ...
... France , Austria , Prussia , and Russia joined in the funeral - procession . Thirty - six carriages brought the senate and magistracy , all the bells tolling ; a military procession contributed to the order and dignity of the scene ...
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... France , 1423 , Bourges ; Henry Grattan , Irish parliamentary orator , 1746 , Dublin . Died . - Mary de Medicis , mother of Louis XIII . of France , 1642 , Cologne ; Ferdinand , Duke of Brunswick , 1792 , Brunswick . HENRY GRATTAN ...
... France , 1423 , Bourges ; Henry Grattan , Irish parliamentary orator , 1746 , Dublin . Died . - Mary de Medicis , mother of Louis XIII . of France , 1642 , Cologne ; Ferdinand , Duke of Brunswick , 1792 , Brunswick . HENRY GRATTAN ...
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... France in the summer of 1536 , to see the daughter of the Duc de Vendome , with a view to marriage ; but , not affecting her on intimate acquaintance , he turned his thoughts to the royal family as likely to furnish him a better bride ...
... France in the summer of 1536 , to see the daughter of the Duc de Vendome , with a view to marriage ; but , not affecting her on intimate acquaintance , he turned his thoughts to the royal family as likely to furnish him a better bride ...
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... France , there lived a man of low origin , named Peter , naturally active and restless , but who by various causes was drawn at last into a religious and anchoritic life , in which he became liable to visions and spiritual impulses ...
... France , there lived a man of low origin , named Peter , naturally active and restless , but who by various causes was drawn at last into a religious and anchoritic life , in which he became liable to visions and spiritual impulses ...
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Popular passages
Page 284 - A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Page 195 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Page 393 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Page 146 - E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Page 219 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Page 407 - Why then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Page 146 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 299 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...
Page 174 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Page 23 - I believe, towards the close of the last century, and the beginning of the present, sent out more living writers, in its proportion, than any other school.