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... nature of his violence . In clas- ocean . " Yet examination will , I think , show con- sically - derived words used by Shakespeare it is clusively that the reading and interpretation are always the safe plan to refer to the Latin dic ...
... nature of his violence . In clas- ocean . " Yet examination will , I think , show con- sically - derived words used by Shakespeare it is clusively that the reading and interpretation are always the safe plan to refer to the Latin dic ...
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... NATURE and BENEFITS . With a Notice of some Common Objections to Receiving it . 4. LIST of HISTORICAL BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED . 5. CONTENTS of PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS . London : LONGMANS , GREEN & CO . The NARROW WAY . A Complete ...
... NATURE and BENEFITS . With a Notice of some Common Objections to Receiving it . 4. LIST of HISTORICAL BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED . 5. CONTENTS of PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS . London : LONGMANS , GREEN & CO . The NARROW WAY . A Complete ...
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... nature and a keen appreciation of the delights of home . A description of one of his daughters , which we owe to a contemporary pen , and in which we may perhaps trace the personal characteristics of Charlotte Craddock , will accord ...
... nature and a keen appreciation of the delights of home . A description of one of his daughters , which we owe to a contemporary pen , and in which we may perhaps trace the personal characteristics of Charlotte Craddock , will accord ...
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... Nature's abhorrence of a vacuum . " The earliest English occurrence of the word that I have been able to find is in the translation of Pecquet , 1653 . In Boyle's ' Spring and Pressure of Air , ' 1660 , the author uses elastical force ...
... Nature's abhorrence of a vacuum . " The earliest English occurrence of the word that I have been able to find is in the translation of Pecquet , 1653 . In Boyle's ' Spring and Pressure of Air , ' 1660 , the author uses elastical force ...
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... so common that men's minds became hardened , and the good and virtuous seem to have tolerated deeds which our nature shrinks from now . Mr. Bradley is so accurate a writer that it is 7th 8. VI , JULY 21 , '88 . ] 59 NOTES AND QUERIES .
... so common that men's minds became hardened , and the good and virtuous seem to have tolerated deeds which our nature shrinks from now . Mr. Bradley is so accurate a writer that it is 7th 8. VI , JULY 21 , '88 . ] 59 NOTES AND QUERIES .
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Seite 106 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Seite 203 - Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner following, the bleeding relics of men who had been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts.
Seite 338 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Seite 212 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea...
Seite 24 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Seite 338 - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Seite 204 - Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth ; I know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.
Seite 193 - slithy' means 'lithe and slimy.' 'Lithe' is the same as 'active.' You see it's like a portmanteau— there are two meanings packed up into one word.
Seite 54 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
Seite 7 - To show their particular aversion to it, they branded this form of writing with the name of an egotism; a figure not to be found among the ancient rhetoricians. The most violent egotism which I have met with in the course of my reading, is that of cardinal Wolsey, ego et rex meus,