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... never intended to sanction the present practice of non - communicants trooping out of the church in the middle of the service . This is further evident from two canons ( 1603 ) : xviii . , " None , either man , woman , or child , of ...
... never intended to sanction the present practice of non - communicants trooping out of the church in the middle of the service . This is further evident from two canons ( 1603 ) : xviii . , " None , either man , woman , or child , of ...
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... never having money loffed for their wares or services , never had a loff , " an offer , opportunity . There may have been some confusion to strangers from the change of the old guttural pronunciation of such names as Lough and Gough ...
... never having money loffed for their wares or services , never had a loff , " an offer , opportunity . There may have been some confusion to strangers from the change of the old guttural pronunciation of such names as Lough and Gough ...
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... never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark , Whose worth's unknown , although his height be taken . " In the first edition of the sonnets the last line stands : - ten . We also find Skt . daçat , meaning an aggre- gate of ten ...
... never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark , Whose worth's unknown , although his height be taken . " In the first edition of the sonnets the last line stands : - ten . We also find Skt . daçat , meaning an aggre- gate of ten ...
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... Never be glad of information . tempted before in English | Licens'd and Enter'd according to Order | London | Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey 1694. Price Bound Six Shillings . " THE FIRST INTIMATION IN ENGLAND OF ...
... Never be glad of information . tempted before in English | Licens'd and Enter'd according to Order | London | Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey 1694. Price Bound Six Shillings . " THE FIRST INTIMATION IN ENGLAND OF ...
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... never think of writing peru - se , * The plague raged in this year , and many members of the college migrated to Culham . But some members were constantly resident , feas - t , plea - se , par - t , or divi - de . In many cases the root ...
... never think of writing peru - se , * The plague raged in this year , and many members of the college migrated to Culham . But some members were constantly resident , feas - t , plea - se , par - t , or divi - de . In many cases the root ...
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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.