The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character, Volume 2W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1832 - Anecdotes |
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... month , we Bigh while perusing the ancient ballad- lore , and wish past , were it only to enjoy a week with 53 we could recall the SPENSER . Robin Hood and his merry men in the free old forests ' All under the greenwood tree . ' We feel ...
... month , we Bigh while perusing the ancient ballad- lore , and wish past , were it only to enjoy a week with 53 we could recall the SPENSER . Robin Hood and his merry men in the free old forests ' All under the greenwood tree . ' We feel ...
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... month . After the death of this great reformer of the calendar , Mark Antony changed the name to July , in honour of the family - name of Cæsar . This month he selected for such honorary distinction , when the sun was generally most ...
... month . After the death of this great reformer of the calendar , Mark Antony changed the name to July , in honour of the family - name of Cæsar . This month he selected for such honorary distinction , when the sun was generally most ...
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... month , and enters Leo about the 22d . The great heat of the month led to a superstition among the Romans : they conceived that this pre- eminent warmth , and the diseases and other calami- ties flowing from it , were somehow connected ...
... month , and enters Leo about the 22d . The great heat of the month led to a superstition among the Romans : they conceived that this pre- eminent warmth , and the diseases and other calami- ties flowing from it , were somehow connected ...
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... month of April 1697 , that a spirit , which some believed to be no other than that of the great prophet , appeared to a man of the humbler class at Salon , commanding him on pain of death to observe inviolable secrecy in regard of what ...
... month of April 1697 , that a spirit , which some believed to be no other than that of the great prophet , appeared to a man of the humbler class at Salon , commanding him on pain of death to observe inviolable secrecy in regard of what ...
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... month's tour every summer , and to note down his observations on places and people . Some of the results appeared in ... months , Watson commenced his lectures ; but in all his printed works on chemistry , and other subjects , the word ...
... month's tour every summer , and to note down his observations on places and people . Some of the results appeared in ... months , Watson commenced his lectures ; but in all his printed works on chemistry , and other subjects , the word ...
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Popular passages
Page 284 - A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Page 173 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Page 299 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 219 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Page 234 - God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender! God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender. Who that pretender is, and who that king, God bless us all! is quite another thing.
Page 4 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 469 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die. who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid : as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground ; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Page 266 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Page 485 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 299 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...