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... known Print , and some original Photographs . Demy 8vo . 436 pp . with 41 pages of Index . Price 188. post free . RICHARD HOLMES , Pontefract . TO SOLICITORS . - The Advertiser , unarticled , who has had considerable experience in the ...
... known Print , and some original Photographs . Demy 8vo . 436 pp . with 41 pages of Index . Price 188. post free . RICHARD HOLMES , Pontefract . TO SOLICITORS . - The Advertiser , unarticled , who has had considerable experience in the ...
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... known in any other district . W. E. L. Jos . SIDNEY HORTON . - I wish to ask who this person was . I find his name written on the back of the frames of two water - colour portraits , and do not know whether he was the artist or the ...
... known in any other district . W. E. L. Jos . SIDNEY HORTON . - I wish to ask who this person was . I find his name written on the back of the frames of two water - colour portraits , and do not know whether he was the artist or the ...
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... known by the English form James , akin to the Italian Giacomo , is commemorated under the form Jacob in one of the old parish churches of Bristol , which is always known as St. Philip and Jacob's . E. VENABLES . A list of recorded ...
... known by the English form James , akin to the Italian Giacomo , is commemorated under the form Jacob in one of the old parish churches of Bristol , which is always known as St. Philip and Jacob's . E. VENABLES . A list of recorded ...
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... known ; but I would repeat it , as told by Mr. Disraeli , when Premier , in my hear- ing . I happened to sit opposite to him at dinner , in a private house , and to promote conversation I said , " I suppose , Mr. Disraeli , there is no ...
... known ; but I would repeat it , as told by Mr. Disraeli , when Premier , in my hear- ing . I happened to sit opposite to him at dinner , in a private house , and to promote conversation I said , " I suppose , Mr. Disraeli , there is no ...
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... known Apollo's mind better than any of us . And Chryses , wish- ing to curry favour with the god , puts him in mind of the many fat goats and bulls he had sacrificed to him . This seems to me to ascribe physical wants to Apollo ...
... known Apollo's mind better than any of us . And Chryses , wish- ing to curry favour with the god , puts him in mind of the many fat goats and bulls he had sacrificed to him . This seems to me to ascribe physical wants to Apollo ...
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Page 82 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 82 - MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest...
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Page 41 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands ; And let her own works praise her in the gates.
Page 50 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
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