The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1808 |
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... death ; 208 of transportation ; eight were fined , imprisoned , or pilloried ; four burnt in the hand ; four whipped , and 288 acquitted , ' Common begging , fortune - telling , necromancy , guinea- dropping , quackery , swindling ...
... death ; 208 of transportation ; eight were fined , imprisoned , or pilloried ; four burnt in the hand ; four whipped , and 288 acquitted , ' Common begging , fortune - telling , necromancy , guinea- dropping , quackery , swindling ...
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... death not to shift his linen till the pretender was seated on the throne of these realms . ' These , with many other instances of folly or caprice which it would be tedious to relate , are detailed by the author , and perhaps in the ...
... death not to shift his linen till the pretender was seated on the throne of these realms . ' These , with many other instances of folly or caprice which it would be tedious to relate , are detailed by the author , and perhaps in the ...
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... death in an amphitheatre at the back of Soho - square ; and soon after we are told of a proposal to ' Exhibit an African tiger on a stage four feet high and worried by six bull and bear dogs for one hundred pounds ; a mad bull and a ...
... death in an amphitheatre at the back of Soho - square ; and soon after we are told of a proposal to ' Exhibit an African tiger on a stage four feet high and worried by six bull and bear dogs for one hundred pounds ; a mad bull and a ...
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... death , and all his property destroyed . ' Some of the Caucasians are said to pay great attention to their vineyards . The red wine of Gumrah , which is less common , is said to be more prized than all the rest . There are also ...
... death , and all his property destroyed . ' Some of the Caucasians are said to pay great attention to their vineyards . The red wine of Gumrah , which is less common , is said to be more prized than all the rest . There are also ...
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... death in a good cause , as he did afterwards , and basely run away at Antioch . For when the siege grew hot , his devotion grew cold ; he found a difference between a voluntary fast in his cell , and a necessary and undispensable famine ...
... death in a good cause , as he did afterwards , and basely run away at Antioch . For when the siege grew hot , his devotion grew cold ; he found a difference between a voluntary fast in his cell , and a necessary and undispensable famine ...
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Seite 23 - ... apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did of the said farm, where he that now hath it payeth sixteen pound by year or more, and is not able to do anything for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor.
Seite 334 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Seite 334 - This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face — the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, Reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.
Seite 23 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn (me) any other thing ; and so, I think, other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Seite 23 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had...
Seite 53 - ... a creditor has an insurable interest in the life of his debtor, at least where he has only the personal security of the debtor
Seite 356 - He then embraced his friends, gave some tokens of remembrance to his son-in-law, Lord Maitland, for his daughter . and grand-children, stript himself of part of his apparel, of which he likewise made presents, and laid his head upon the block. Having uttered a short prayer, he gave the signal to the executioner, which was instantly obeyed, and his head severed from, his body.
Seite 23 - I think other men did their children: he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength .of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength ; as...
Seite 178 - THE Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another.
Seite 23 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did...