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... Latin rendering of " Rock of Ages " -The obtained from the king the wardship and marriage , Devil and the best Tunes - To be thrown over , " & c . - To together with the custody of the barony their " call a spade a spade , " 16- " The ...
... Latin rendering of " Rock of Ages " -The obtained from the king the wardship and marriage , Devil and the best Tunes - To be thrown over , " & c . - To together with the custody of the barony their " call a spade a spade , " 16- " The ...
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... Latin trama ) , in the sense of woof or weft , is in Cotgrave to be found in the form traine * as well ; whilst in the Prompt . Parv . we find the trayne of a cloth . This same Fr. word trame also means a plot or treacherous scheme ...
... Latin trama ) , in the sense of woof or weft , is in Cotgrave to be found in the form traine * as well ; whilst in the Prompt . Parv . we find the trayne of a cloth . This same Fr. word trame also means a plot or treacherous scheme ...
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... LATIN RENDERING OF THE HYMN " ROCK OF AGES , " & C . ( 6th S. ii . 346 ) .— Has not Mr. Gladstone consciously , as a classical scholar , used the nominative case instead of the vocative in the line , " Jesus pro me perforatus " ? He has ...
... LATIN RENDERING OF THE HYMN " ROCK OF AGES , " & C . ( 6th S. ii . 346 ) .— Has not Mr. Gladstone consciously , as a classical scholar , used the nominative case instead of the vocative in the line , " Jesus pro me perforatus " ? He has ...
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... LATIN VERSES ( 6th S. ii . 482 ) .- The quotation of the lines described by Savage Landor as magno fratre digna reminds me of a criticism , signed " Rugbeiensis , " that appeared in the Times shortly after the verses were announced as ...
... LATIN VERSES ( 6th S. ii . 482 ) .- The quotation of the lines described by Savage Landor as magno fratre digna reminds me of a criticism , signed " Rugbeiensis , " that appeared in the Times shortly after the verses were announced as ...
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... Latin - Stuart Epitaphs in Rome and Dunkeld , 45 - The Great Bell of St. Paul's - Names of Trains - The Endurance of Cromwell in the Popular Memory - A " drop , " 46 . QUERIES : -A Volume of Tracts by Thomas Nashe " New Epigrams ...
... Latin - Stuart Epitaphs in Rome and Dunkeld , 45 - The Great Bell of St. Paul's - Names of Trains - The Endurance of Cromwell in the Popular Memory - A " drop , " 46 . QUERIES : -A Volume of Tracts by Thomas Nashe " New Epigrams ...
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