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... tion , from which , he is now totally pre- vented , by incurring costs which he cannot avoid , and which eat up all his funds . Above 201 . 301. and Number and Process . and not bailable . and under 201 . and under 301 . upwards . No ...
... tion , from which , he is now totally pre- vented , by incurring costs which he cannot avoid , and which eat up all his funds . Above 201 . 301. and Number and Process . and not bailable . and under 201 . and under 301 . upwards . No ...
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... tion of the town itself can be traced back only to the time of Alphonso the warrior , king of Arragon , in 1122 . The walls are still very entire , and are fortified with towers at proper dis- tances , battlements , loop - holes , and ...
... tion of the town itself can be traced back only to the time of Alphonso the warrior , king of Arragon , in 1122 . The walls are still very entire , and are fortified with towers at proper dis- tances , battlements , loop - holes , and ...
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... tion - laws , every candidate was anxious to have the advantage of his abilities . He afterwards retired to the country for the study of agriculture . To a theoretical knowledge he united a practical , and it was always attended with ...
... tion - laws , every candidate was anxious to have the advantage of his abilities . He afterwards retired to the country for the study of agriculture . To a theoretical knowledge he united a practical , and it was always attended with ...
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... tion which must surely be held conge- nial with the general English feeling : and more especially certain would the success be , should their endeavours be grounded on the dicta of rational nature and prac- tical use ; neither vitiated ...
... tion which must surely be held conge- nial with the general English feeling : and more especially certain would the success be , should their endeavours be grounded on the dicta of rational nature and prac- tical use ; neither vitiated ...
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... tion , and excite our admiration , by a re- presentation of heroic deeds and virtuous characters . It is the humbler , though qut less useful , design of didactic poetry , to convey knowledge and instruction , under the pleasing garb of ...
... tion , and excite our admiration , by a re- presentation of heroic deeds and virtuous characters . It is the humbler , though qut less useful , design of didactic poetry , to convey knowledge and instruction , under the pleasing garb of ...
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Page 32 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 21 - But I have greater witness than that of John ; for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
Page 320 - Others to sin, and made my sin their door .Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when...
Page 320 - ... though still I do deplore ? When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done, For I have more. " Wilt Thou forgive that sin, which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door?
Page 244 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave me a violent head-ache.
Page 158 - The head was covered with a dry skin ; one of the ears, well preserved, was furnished with a tuft of hairs.
Page 66 - We have it in command from his majesty, to inform you, that the determination of the enemy to excite hostilities between his majesty and his late allies, the emperors of Russia and Austria, and the king of Prussia, has been but too successful ; and that the ministers from those powers have demanded and received their passports. This measure, on the part of Russia, has been attempted to be justified by a statement of wrongs and grievances which have no real foundation. The emperor of Russia had indeed...
Page 318 - France : he said, he thought that was the best climate where he could be abroad in the air with pleasure, or at least without trouble and inconvenience, the most days of the year, and the most hours of the day ; and this, he thought, he could be in England, more than in any country he knew of in Europe.
Page 66 - No pretence of justification can be alleged for the hostile conduct of the emperor of Austria, or for that of his Prussian majesty. His majesty has not given the slightest ground of complaint to either of those sovereigns ; nor even at the...
Page 66 - His Majesty has commanded us to state to you that, in consequence of the decree by which France declared the whole of his Majesty's dominions to be in a state of blockade, and subjected to seizure and confiscation the produce and manufactures of his kingdom, his Majesty resorted, in the first instance, GEORGE Ш. ROYAL SPEECHES. to a measure of mitigated retaliation ; and that this measure having proved ineffectual...