The Saturday Magazine, Volume 12J. W. Parker, 1838 - Periodicals |
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... reign are nowhere more strongly painted than in the little diaries which have come down to us of some of her Progresses , or Summer excursions to the houses of her nobility . It may be added with equal truth , that nowhere do we meet ...
... reign are nowhere more strongly painted than in the little diaries which have come down to us of some of her Progresses , or Summer excursions to the houses of her nobility . It may be added with equal truth , that nowhere do we meet ...
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... reign and life . the Royal Exchange ; she was likewise entertained by him in 1573 , at his mansion at Mayfield in Sussex ; and some time between 1577 and 1579 at his house at Osterley near London . In 1571 , she visited Hunsdon House ...
... reign and life . the Royal Exchange ; she was likewise entertained by him in 1573 , at his mansion at Mayfield in Sussex ; and some time between 1577 and 1579 at his house at Osterley near London . In 1571 , she visited Hunsdon House ...
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... reigns who possessed the privilege of electing the emperors of Germany ; we render it fitly by the term Elector . Otho ... reign of eight years , by his son Rupert the Third , elected , in 1400 , King of Rome , and crowned as such at ...
... reigns who possessed the privilege of electing the emperors of Germany ; we render it fitly by the term Elector . Otho ... reign of eight years , by his son Rupert the Third , elected , in 1400 , King of Rome , and crowned as such at ...
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... reign . In 1524 , this Elector pro - suits , at any rate we perceive no additions or alte- claimed a trial of cross - bow shooting , at which many German potentates attended . This , however , appears the pretext rather than the object ...
... reign . In 1524 , this Elector pro - suits , at any rate we perceive no additions or alte- claimed a trial of cross - bow shooting , at which many German potentates attended . This , however , appears the pretext rather than the object ...
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... reign he was not able to write five letters ( THEOD ) at the bottom of his edicts . For this reason the letters were cut for him , ( we may suppose like our modern stencil plates , ) in a plate of gold , and the plate being laid upon ...
... reign he was not able to write five letters ( THEOD ) at the bottom of his edicts . For this reason the letters were cut for him , ( we may suppose like our modern stencil plates , ) in a plate of gold , and the plate being laid upon ...
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Page 237 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 148 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Page 159 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 29 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 143 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 32 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 109 - And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded ; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants ; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
Page 148 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 181 - And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
Page 229 - And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances : and she was his only child ; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.