The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 175Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1844 - English essays |
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Page 50
... Charles I. by the bishops , whom he consulted in reference to his conscientious scruples as to the overthrow of episcopacy , and the application of church lands to secular uses , is here shewn by a letter from Bishops Juxon and Duppa ...
... Charles I. by the bishops , whom he consulted in reference to his conscientious scruples as to the overthrow of episcopacy , and the application of church lands to secular uses , is here shewn by a letter from Bishops Juxon and Duppa ...
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... Charles had passed his royal word that he would not go out of the Isle of Wight during a treaty with certain commis- sioners , nor for 28 days afterwards . It was , however , whispered to Ham- mond , the governor of Carisbrooke castle ...
... Charles had passed his royal word that he would not go out of the Isle of Wight during a treaty with certain commis- sioners , nor for 28 days afterwards . It was , however , whispered to Ham- mond , the governor of Carisbrooke castle ...
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... CHARLES DARWIN , esq . M.A. , F.R.S. , Sec . G. S. Naturalist to the Expedition . Nineteen Parts . 81. 158 . Or , separately , as follows : - Fossil Mammalia . By R. OWEN , F.R.S. Prof. of Anatomy and Physiology to the Royal College of ...
... CHARLES DARWIN , esq . M.A. , F.R.S. , Sec . G. S. Naturalist to the Expedition . Nineteen Parts . 81. 158 . Or , separately , as follows : - Fossil Mammalia . By R. OWEN , F.R.S. Prof. of Anatomy and Physiology to the Royal College of ...
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... Charles Malcolm ; and , towards the close of the evening , by John George Shaw Lefevre , esq . The business of the evening then commenced , when the fol- lowing elections were acceded to with the unanimous consent of the meeting ...
... Charles Malcolm ; and , towards the close of the evening , by John George Shaw Lefevre , esq . The business of the evening then commenced , when the fol- lowing elections were acceded to with the unanimous consent of the meeting ...
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... Charles Alex . Wood , esqrs . to be Commissioners for superintending the sale and settlement of the waste lands of the Crown in the British Colonies , and the con- veyance of emigrants thither . - 1st Foot , Major Charles Deane to be ...
... Charles Alex . Wood , esqrs . to be Commissioners for superintending the sale and settlement of the waste lands of the Crown in the British Colonies , and the con- veyance of emigrants thither . - 1st Foot , Major Charles Deane to be ...
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Page 492 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Page 569 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 567 - ... if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
Page 567 - In the summer of the year 1797 the author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effect of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment he was reading the following sentence, or words of the'' same substance, in "Purchas's Pilgrimage...
Page 558 - I have attempted to practise, and, where any passage appeared inextricably perplexed have endeavoured to discover how it may be recalled to sense, with least violence. But my first labour is, always to turn the old text on every side, and try if there be any interstice, through which light can find its way; nor would Huetius himself condemn me, as refusing the trouble of research, for the ambition of alteration.
Page 452 - Hushed were his Gertrude's lips ! but still their bland And beautiful expression seemed to melt With love that could not die ! and still his hand She presses to the heart no more that felt. Ah, heart ! where once each fond affection dwelt, And features yet that spoke a soul more fair.
Page 567 - On awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved.
Page 560 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 569 - But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches ; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
Page 61 - Glimpses of Nature ; And Objects of Interest described during a Visit to the Isle of Wight. Designed to assist and encourage Young Persons in forming habits of observation. By Mrs. LOUDON. Second Edition, enlarged. With Forty-one Illustrations. 3s. 6d. cloth. "We could not recommend a more valuable little volume. It is full of information, conveyed in the most agreeable manner."— Literary Gazette.