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... notice which Prof. Loisette's System has obtained , we paid a visit to his office , and made an acquaintance with the details of his method . " We then heard sufficient of this system of forming an accurate , powerful , and lasting ...
... notice which Prof. Loisette's System has obtained , we paid a visit to his office , and made an acquaintance with the details of his method . " We then heard sufficient of this system of forming an accurate , powerful , and lasting ...
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... notice of nothing it in the Calen- dar of State Papers ( Domestic ) , 1652-3 , p . 529 , scarcely hints at its great value as an autobio- graphical sketch of Lawson's early career , of which has hitherto been known , and what little has ...
... notice of nothing it in the Calen- dar of State Papers ( Domestic ) , 1652-3 , p . 529 , scarcely hints at its great value as an autobio- graphical sketch of Lawson's early career , of which has hitherto been known , and what little has ...
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... notice how the country people in the neighbour- hood pronounced the only name by which they seemed to know the cowslip - a name which never heard till I went into that neighbourhood . Now my memory is very distinct that they called that ...
... notice how the country people in the neighbour- hood pronounced the only name by which they seemed to know the cowslip - a name which never heard till I went into that neighbourhood . Now my memory is very distinct that they called that ...
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... notice . The part of the book which is a select glossary is in most places very amusing , and few can read it through without gaining some new knowledge . Dr. Mackay seems to be under the impres- sion that peel , in the sense of a tower ...
... notice . The part of the book which is a select glossary is in most places very amusing , and few can read it through without gaining some new knowledge . Dr. Mackay seems to be under the impres- sion that peel , in the sense of a tower ...
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NOTICE . NOTES AND QUERIES . The Volume JANUARY to JUNE , 1883 , With the Index , Price 10s . 6d . , will shortly be ready . Cases for Binding , price 1s . 3d . post free . JOHN C. FRANCIS , 20 , Wellington Street , Strand , London ...
NOTICE . NOTES AND QUERIES . The Volume JANUARY to JUNE , 1883 , With the Index , Price 10s . 6d . , will shortly be ready . Cases for Binding , price 1s . 3d . post free . JOHN C. FRANCIS , 20 , Wellington Street , Strand , London ...
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Page 390 - Truly, good Christian reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation nor yet to make of a bad one a good one . . . but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against ; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark.
Page 186 - Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 126 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 85 - ... this is the invisible and unattainable point to which Love tends; and to attain which, it urges forth the powers of man to arrest the faintest shadow of that, without the possession of which there is no rest nor respite to the heart over which it rules.
Page 359 - MA, Vicar of Detling, Kent, and for many years Curate of Lambeth Parish Church. With an Introduction by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Second Edition, containing an additional Chapter on Medieval Life in the Old Palaces. 8vo, with Illustrations, 21s. CHARTERIS. Canonicity; or, Early Testimonies to the Existence and Use of the Books of the New Testament. Based on Kirchhoffer's 'Quellensammlung.
Page 93 - ... demons so that they never return, and this method of cure is of great force unto this day ; for I have seen a certain man of my own country, whose name was Eleazar, releasing people that were demoniacal in the presence of Vespasian, and his sons, and his captains, and the whole multitude of his soldiers. The manner of the cure was this : — He put a ring that had a root of one of those sorts mentioned by Solomon to the nostrils of the demoniac, after which he drew out the demon through his nosiril...
Page 93 - God also enabled him to learn that skill which expels demons, which is a science useful and sanative to men. He composed such incantations also by which distempers are alleviated. And he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms, by which they drive away demons, so that they never return, and this method of cure is of great force unto this day...
Page 385 - Si le roi m'avait donné Paris sa grand' ville, Et qu'il me fallût quitter L'amour de ma mie; Je dirais au roi Henri : Reprenez votre Paris, J'aime mieux ma mie, au gué, J'aime mieux ma mie.
Page 209 - Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Page 394 - Hervey, wo'uld you know the passion, You have kindled in my breast? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. " In my silence see the lover; True love is by silence known; In my eyes you'll best discover, All the power of your own.