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... question in Europe became further complicated by the death of Charles IX . of France , and the succession of Henry III . to the throne , the latter king being no admirer or partisan of Queen Elizabeth . The former league referred to is ...
... question in Europe became further complicated by the death of Charles IX . of France , and the succession of Henry III . to the throne , the latter king being no admirer or partisan of Queen Elizabeth . The former league referred to is ...
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... question of burying a thousand men in a few square yards , did not seem to matter . I have also heard the old tale of the man who stole a sheep and ate it ; when questioned he denied the theft , whereat the sheep bleated in his stomach ...
... question of burying a thousand men in a few square yards , did not seem to matter . I have also heard the old tale of the man who stole a sheep and ate it ; when questioned he denied the theft , whereat the sheep bleated in his stomach ...
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... question . It may be safely prophesied that at the end of the century few , if any , of these old houses will be in existence , and it would , therefore , be interesting to make a note of them while there is still opportunity . W. F. ...
... question . It may be safely prophesied that at the end of the century few , if any , of these old houses will be in existence , and it would , therefore , be interesting to make a note of them while there is still opportunity . W. F. ...
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... question now remaining to be solved , therefore , is what Habert itself is derived from . Pott ( second edit . , 1859 , p . 221 ) says it = O.H.G . haduperaht , which seems to mean bright or illus- trious in war . Larchey , on the other ...
... question now remaining to be solved , therefore , is what Habert itself is derived from . Pott ( second edit . , 1859 , p . 221 ) says it = O.H.G . haduperaht , which seems to mean bright or illus- trious in war . Larchey , on the other ...
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... Questions and Replies ; Letters and Documentary Authorities , Discoveries and Curiosities , Literary News and Gossip ... question and the replies are inserted without the drawing of any distinction of political or of religious opinion ...
... Questions and Replies ; Letters and Documentary Authorities , Discoveries and Curiosities , Literary News and Gossip ... question and the replies are inserted without the drawing of any distinction of political or of religious opinion ...
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Seite 88 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not...
Seite 260 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Seite 282 - The golden atoms of the day ; For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale, when May is past ; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters, and keeps warm her note.
Seite 248 - It is believed that the experience of the past, not only with the railroads but with all industry, and not only in this country but in other parts of the world, shows which course to take.
Seite 231 - What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Seite 116 - For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb ; and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men ; and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
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Seite 128 - Jesuit, who flourished at the close of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, and one of the most illustrious metaphysicians of modern times.
Seite 400 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Seite 118 - ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule.