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... Ancient Alban . By W. F. SKENE , Author of " The Four Ancient Books of Wales . " Book I. - HISTORY and ETHNOLOGY . EDMONSTON & DOUGLAS , 88 , Princes Street , Edinburgh . FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION AND SUBSCRIBERS ONLY ( 300 COPIES ) ...
... Ancient Alban . By W. F. SKENE , Author of " The Four Ancient Books of Wales . " Book I. - HISTORY and ETHNOLOGY . EDMONSTON & DOUGLAS , 88 , Princes Street , Edinburgh . FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION AND SUBSCRIBERS ONLY ( 300 COPIES ) ...
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... ancient Mark , land boundaries , and land tenures , in a manner to make me regret that we had not a short- hand writer with us . He told me that he never wrote down any part of a book or essay he was going to publish until the whole was ...
... ancient Mark , land boundaries , and land tenures , in a manner to make me regret that we had not a short- hand writer with us . He told me that he never wrote down any part of a book or essay he was going to publish until the whole was ...
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... ancient and modern , as he does , nor about the literature of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies , nor about clubs in particular . He appears to know well " le splendide club du West End de Londres , " yet the little ...
... ancient and modern , as he does , nor about the literature of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies , nor about clubs in particular . He appears to know well " le splendide club du West End de Londres , " yet the little ...
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... ancient branks used to be exhibited for the edification of scolds . This instrument fitted over the head and locked behind ; a tongue piece projected , intended to enter the mouth to keep down the unruly member of the subject operated ...
... ancient branks used to be exhibited for the edification of scolds . This instrument fitted over the head and locked behind ; a tongue piece projected , intended to enter the mouth to keep down the unruly member of the subject operated ...
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... ancient Christian writers " to the surpassing brightness of this star , " which I conceive , as many ancients and moderns have done , to have been a new star in the heavens . Judging from what I have seen in some local newspapers , one ...
... ancient Christian writers " to the surpassing brightness of this star , " which I conceive , as many ancients and moderns have done , to have been a new star in the heavens . Judging from what I have seen in some local newspapers , one ...
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Page 241 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Page 37 - Then shall this general confession be made, in the name of all those that are minded to receive the Holy Communion...
Page 145 - Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six. Four spend in prayer— the rest on nature fix. Rather. Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and 'all to heaven.
Page 76 - And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: and they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Page 241 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there! Shine forth, thou Star of Poets, and with rage Or influence, chide or cheer the drooping stage, Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night, And despairs day, but for thy volume's light.
Page 187 - Fear him, ye saints, and you will then Have nothing else to fear; Make you his service your delight, Your wants shall be his care.
Page 163 - Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew ? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead? No, neither he, nor his compeers by night Giving him aid, my verse astonished. He, nor that affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence, As victors of my silence cannot boast ;' I was not sick of any fear from thence : But when your countenance fill'd up his line, Then lack'd I matter ; that enfeebled mine.
Page 309 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 126 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 218 - For my own part, there -was not a moment during the Revolution, when I would not have given every thing I possessed for a restoration to the State of things before the Contest began, provided we could have had any sufficient security for its continuance.