Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaLippincott, 1874 - 864 Seiten |
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... Cæsar arranged the Calendar- The Julian Year - Going faster than the Sun - Pope Gregory's Efforts— Origin of the New Style- " Poor Job's Almanac " -The Loss of Eleven Days - How the matter was Explained ...... . 325 Memoria Technica ...
... Cæsar arranged the Calendar- The Julian Year - Going faster than the Sun - Pope Gregory's Efforts— Origin of the New Style- " Poor Job's Almanac " -The Loss of Eleven Days - How the matter was Explained ...... . 325 Memoria Technica ...
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... Cæsar — Some Curious Old Bills— “ Mending the Ten Com- mandments " -Screwing a Horn on the Devil - Glueing a bit on his Tail— Repairing the Virgin Mary before and behind - Making a New Child - Why Bishops and Parsons have no Souls - The ...
... Cæsar — Some Curious Old Bills— “ Mending the Ten Com- mandments " -Screwing a Horn on the Devil - Glueing a bit on his Tail— Repairing the Virgin Mary before and behind - Making a New Child - Why Bishops and Parsons have no Souls - The ...
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... Cæsar - The Two Brothers with One Set of feelings - How Dennis Hendrick won his Strange Bet - Walking Blind - folded -How to Tell the Time by Cats ' Eyes - Ilow a Young Woman was Cured by a Ring - The Story told by a Skull - A Romantic ...
... Cæsar - The Two Brothers with One Set of feelings - How Dennis Hendrick won his Strange Bet - Walking Blind - folded -How to Tell the Time by Cats ' Eyes - Ilow a Young Woman was Cured by a Ring - The Story told by a Skull - A Romantic ...
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... Cæsar , and the 27th day of March , the city of the holy Jerusalem — Annas and Caiaphas being priests , sacrificators of the people of God- Pontius Pilate , Governor of Lower Galilee , sitting in the presi dential chair of the prætory ...
... Cæsar , and the 27th day of March , the city of the holy Jerusalem — Annas and Caiaphas being priests , sacrificators of the people of God- Pontius Pilate , Governor of Lower Galilee , sitting in the presi dential chair of the prætory ...
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... Cæsar , ii . 1 . A horrid silence first invades the ear . - DRYDEN . Beneath a mountain's brow , the most remote And inaccessible by shepherds trod . - HOME : Douglass . In the Irish Bank - bill passed by Parliament in June , 1808 , is ...
... Cæsar , ii . 1 . A horrid silence first invades the ear . - DRYDEN . Beneath a mountain's brow , the most remote And inaccessible by shepherds trod . - HOME : Douglass . In the Irish Bank - bill passed by Parliament in June , 1808 , is ...
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Seite 803 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Seite 507 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Seite 760 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Seite 521 - 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 125 - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Seite 783 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
Seite 412 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Seite 391 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Seite 269 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Seite 231 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.