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... English carved work . Catalogues arranged and Collections valued . WORKS on TOBACCO , SNUFF , & c . - Book- sellers having Books on Tobacco , Snuff , & c . , or Magazines , Journals , or Newspapers containing Articles on the subject ...
... English carved work . Catalogues arranged and Collections valued . WORKS on TOBACCO , SNUFF , & c . - Book- sellers having Books on Tobacco , Snuff , & c . , or Magazines , Journals , or Newspapers containing Articles on the subject ...
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... English verb hight , as used by Chaucer and revived by Spenser ( Anglo - Saxon hatan ) . Coles's Dictionary , 1685 , gives the word as still used in Cumberland , and defines it " to " ROMISH , " " ROMANIST , " & c . — I observe in ...
... English verb hight , as used by Chaucer and revived by Spenser ( Anglo - Saxon hatan ) . Coles's Dictionary , 1685 , gives the word as still used in Cumberland , and defines it " to " ROMISH , " " ROMANIST , " & c . — I observe in ...
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... English was derived from Latin and Greek , and that there was no originality in it . We find side - bench , side - board , and side - wagh ( i.e. side - wall ) all in the Middle - English period . Hence side - man is a perfectly ...
... English was derived from Latin and Greek , and that there was no originality in it . We find side - bench , side - board , and side - wagh ( i.e. side - wall ) all in the Middle - English period . Hence side - man is a perfectly ...
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... English readers by the insertion of the papers from the original American edition . The circulation was limited , there not being suffi- cient scope or interest in a provincial town to command success . It might be thought that the ...
... English readers by the insertion of the papers from the original American edition . The circulation was limited , there not being suffi- cient scope or interest in a provincial town to command success . It might be thought that the ...
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... English . The Dutch have not only such words as drukkerij ( Ger . Druckerei ) for " printing house , " but also another admirable word , boekerij ( which we can now only express by borrowing a word from the Latin ) , which is surely as ...
... English . The Dutch have not only such words as drukkerij ( Ger . Druckerei ) for " printing house , " but also another admirable word , boekerij ( which we can now only express by borrowing a word from the Latin ) , which is surely as ...
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Seite 320 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 320 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Seite 68 - Our cuirassiers have burst on the ranks of the Accurst, And at a shock have scattered the forest of his pikes. Fast, fast, the gallants ride, in some safe nook to hide Their coward heads, predestined to rot on Temple Bar: And he — he turns, he flies: — shame on those cruel eyes That bore to look on torture, and dare not look on war.
Seite 20 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Seite 200 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Seite 5 - Then so many as shall be partakers of the Holy Communion shall tarry still in the quire, or in some convenient place nigh the quire, the men on the one side, and the women on the other side.
Seite 60 - ild you ! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Seite 96 - A Letter from Mr. Gibber to Mr. Pope, Inquiring into the Motives that might induce him in his Satyrical Works, to be frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's Name.
Seite 20 - Union that four Lords Spiritual of Ireland by rotation of Sessions, and twenty-eight Lords Temporal of Ireland, elected for life by the Peers of Ireland, shall be the number to sit and vote on the part of Ireland in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
Seite 69 - He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and you for the liberty he fights for.