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... Query when the present card tickets were first introduced ? J. ELIOT HODGKIN . Richmond - on - Thames . STEELE AND THE CHARTERHOUSE . - At p . 322 of the ' Report on the Earl of Dartmouth's Collection , ' just published by the ...
... Query when the present card tickets were first introduced ? J. ELIOT HODGKIN . Richmond - on - Thames . STEELE AND THE CHARTERHOUSE . - At p . 322 of the ' Report on the Earl of Dartmouth's Collection , ' just published by the ...
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... query , I can answer , so far as regards Sir Baptist Hicks , that there is no engraving of his portrait now in the Sessions House . When , some years ago , I had a copy in oils taken , I was given permission to do so on the distinct ...
... query , I can answer , so far as regards Sir Baptist Hicks , that there is no engraving of his portrait now in the Sessions House . When , some years ago , I had a copy in oils taken , I was given permission to do so on the distinct ...
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... queries privately . To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule . Let each note , query , or reply be written on a separate slip of paper , with the signature of the writer and such address as he ...
... queries privately . To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule . Let each note , query , or reply be written on a separate slip of paper , with the signature of the writer and such address as he ...
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... query , I can inform him that no continuation of the above book or " subsequent narration " by Mr. Ainslie ( " Philo Scotus " ) , the author , was ever published . R. A. G. Edinburgh . The author was Philip Ainslie , son of Ainslie of ...
... query , I can inform him that no continuation of the above book or " subsequent narration " by Mr. Ainslie ( " Philo Scotus " ) , the author , was ever published . R. A. G. Edinburgh . The author was Philip Ainslie , son of Ainslie of ...
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... query whether it was not the case that he rested during the night on a bawk beside his pigeons . " Auld Bawks " was a descriptive nick- name given to a quaint harvester in the days pre- ceding the introduction of mowers ; and the third ...
... query whether it was not the case that he rested during the night on a bawk beside his pigeons . " Auld Bawks " was a descriptive nick- name given to a quaint harvester in the days pre- ceding the introduction of mowers ; and the third ...
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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,