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... known saying of Lord Beaconsfield , 66 The unexpected always happens , " may be found in Plautus , Mostellaria , i . iii . 40 , " Insperata accidunt magis sæpe , quam quæ speres . ” 12 , Monteith Row , Glasgow . FRANCIS ANDERSON ...
... known saying of Lord Beaconsfield , 66 The unexpected always happens , " may be found in Plautus , Mostellaria , i . iii . 40 , " Insperata accidunt magis sæpe , quam quæ speres . ” 12 , Monteith Row , Glasgow . FRANCIS ANDERSON ...
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... known when they were first practised in England ? ANON . THE FARTHING PIE HOUSE , MARYLEBONE.— Where was this place ? Why so named ? GEORGE ELLIS . St. John's Wood . THE REV . FR . GARTHSIDE was rector of a parish ( possibly in ...
... known when they were first practised in England ? ANON . THE FARTHING PIE HOUSE , MARYLEBONE.— Where was this place ? Why so named ? GEORGE ELLIS . St. John's Wood . THE REV . FR . GARTHSIDE was rector of a parish ( possibly in ...
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... known in England was William De Laune , a French Protestant clergyman ( verbi Dei predi- cator ) , who had been compelled to leave his native have combined the practice of medicine with the country on account of his religion . He seems ...
... known in England was William De Laune , a French Protestant clergyman ( verbi Dei predi- cator ) , who had been compelled to leave his native have combined the practice of medicine with the country on account of his religion . He seems ...
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... known to every student of English who has ever seen a manuscript . The quotation cited , beginning " This wretched world'is transmutacion , " proves nothing to the contrary . It is simply a quotation from Chaucer , misprinted , or ...
... known to every student of English who has ever seen a manuscript . The quotation cited , beginning " This wretched world'is transmutacion , " proves nothing to the contrary . It is simply a quotation from Chaucer , misprinted , or ...
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... known arms of Sir Guy Fere , who was lord of the manor of Benhall in Suffolk in 25th of Ed . III . ( Davy's Suffolk Col- lections ) . They are cited by Planché , Lower , & c . , as a typical instance of " armes parlantes " - -arms borne ...
... known arms of Sir Guy Fere , who was lord of the manor of Benhall in Suffolk in 25th of Ed . III . ( Davy's Suffolk Col- lections ) . They are cited by Planché , Lower , & c . , as a typical instance of " armes parlantes " - -arms borne ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.