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... present day for the self - same of the best fatlings that is to be met with , they delude reason in the Feroe Islands , as well as in other places . the eyes of its owner with the substitution of some It does not appear that the popular ...
... present day for the self - same of the best fatlings that is to be met with , they delude reason in the Feroe Islands , as well as in other places . the eyes of its owner with the substitution of some It does not appear that the popular ...
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... present I shall present you with a BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF WILLIAM AIKMAN , And notice his Son John . Wm . Aikman was the only Son of Wm . Aikman , of Cairnes , Esq . by Margaret , daughter of Sir John There are impressions from this ...
... present I shall present you with a BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF WILLIAM AIKMAN , And notice his Son John . Wm . Aikman was the only Son of Wm . Aikman , of Cairnes , Esq . by Margaret , daughter of Sir John There are impressions from this ...
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... present Majesty , if I mistake not , it was a cross gules . As the study of Heraldry is almost confined to the Herald's College , I should be glad to see the science more cultivated , so little dependance can we place upon many of the ...
... present Majesty , if I mistake not , it was a cross gules . As the study of Heraldry is almost confined to the Herald's College , I should be glad to see the science more cultivated , so little dependance can we place upon many of the ...
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... present specimen , to form a judgement . This production of my pen may perhaps be advantageously contrasted with a genuine copy of such letters as I was accustomed to write , till within a year and a half of the present period . I give ...
... present specimen , to form a judgement . This production of my pen may perhaps be advantageously contrasted with a genuine copy of such letters as I was accustomed to write , till within a year and a half of the present period . I give ...
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... present , and the shadows of past worlds , and among others the world which preceded this , and was far greater , and more glorious ; and when Cain asks , ' Wherefore did it fall ? ' He answers " By a most crushing and inexorable ...
... present , and the shadows of past worlds , and among others the world which preceded this , and was far greater , and more glorious ; and when Cain asks , ' Wherefore did it fall ? ' He answers " By a most crushing and inexorable ...
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Page 68 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 56 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 123 - ... would deal about the small ale, as if it were wine, naming the brewer, and protesting, if it were not good, he should lose their custom ; with a special recommendation to wipe the lip before drinking. Then we had our toasts — "The King...
Page 74 - I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which...
Page 74 - This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears.
Page 2 - I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden, as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before the fall. It is naturally apt to fill the mind with calmness and tranquillity, and to lay all its turbulent passions at rest. It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Providence, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.
Page 122 - There he stood, pointing me out with his dusky finger to the mob, and to a poor woman (I suppose his mother) in particular, till the tears for the exquisiteness of the fun (so he thought it) worked themselves out at the corners of his poor red eyes, red from many a previous weeping, and soot-inflamed...
Page 28 - WEEP not, my wanton, smile upon my knee; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. Mother's wag, pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy; When thy father first did see Such a boy by him and me, He was glad, I was woe, Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy Last his sorrow, first his joy.
Page 84 - Lady-bird ! Lady-bird ! fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will roam...
Page 95 - Also, I will have all my houses furnished, and my lodging chambers to be suited with all such furniture as is fit ; as beds, stools, chairs, suitable cushions, carpets, silver warmingpans, cupboards of plate, fair hangings, and such like.