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... Contains the fullest Life of the Poet yet published ; an Account of his Works and their reception ; Explanation of Obscure Passages , Parallel Passages , Alterations , Bibliography , & c . Edinburgh : MAONIVEN & WALLACE . THE DUBLIN ...
... Contains the fullest Life of the Poet yet published ; an Account of his Works and their reception ; Explanation of Obscure Passages , Parallel Passages , Alterations , Bibliography , & c . Edinburgh : MAONIVEN & WALLACE . THE DUBLIN ...
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... contains , which would somewhat answer in sense , only it happens to be of Arabic origin . What we want to know is whether maund is an Afghan word or not . WALTER W. SKEAT . This Indian commercial term is fully treated of in Prof. H. H. ...
... contains , which would somewhat answer in sense , only it happens to be of Arabic origin . What we want to know is whether maund is an Afghan word or not . WALTER W. SKEAT . This Indian commercial term is fully treated of in Prof. H. H. ...
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... contains the annals of the English College at Rome from 1579 to 1773 , with the pilgrim - book of the ancient ... containing , as the author says , site . The English therefore were without a national " all that I care my friends should ...
... contains the annals of the English College at Rome from 1579 to 1773 , with the pilgrim - book of the ancient ... containing , as the author says , site . The English therefore were without a national " all that I care my friends should ...
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... contains most valuable reading , and is in such a clear and pleasant style that it deserves to be very popular . " - Queen , FARMING in a SMALL WAY for PLEASURE and PROFIT . By James Long . NEW EDITION . A HISTORY of ENGLISH THOUGHT in ...
... contains most valuable reading , and is in such a clear and pleasant style that it deserves to be very popular . " - Queen , FARMING in a SMALL WAY for PLEASURE and PROFIT . By James Long . NEW EDITION . A HISTORY of ENGLISH THOUGHT in ...
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... contains an account of the building of the organ of St. Paul's Cathedral by " Father " Smith , and the dispute between him and Sir C. Wren . It is said to be in the January number of the volume for 1819 ( 1719 ) , and to be from the pen ...
... contains an account of the building of the organ of St. Paul's Cathedral by " Father " Smith , and the dispute between him and Sir C. Wren . It is said to be in the January number of the volume for 1819 ( 1719 ) , and to be from the pen ...
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Page 66 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Page 366 - He must correct the press himself, and print it without any interval between the stanzas, because the sense is in some places continued beyond them; and the title must be, "Elegy, written in a Country Church-yard.
Page 266 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 151 - We now come to a wilder trait of the Hungerford family, in an eccentric memorial of one of its members. Sir Edward Hungerford, who was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles II...
Page 112 - If thou art borrowed by a friend, Right welcome shall he be To read, to study, not to lend, But to return to me. Not that imparted knowledge doth Diminish learning's store ; But Books, I find, if often lent, Return to me no more. Read slowly, Pause frequently, Think seriously, Keep cleanly, return duly, With the corners of the leaves not turned down.
Page 241 - Melampronvea ; or, a Discourse of the Polity and Kingdom of Darkness ; together with a Solution of the chiefest Objections brought against the being of Witches.
Page 158 - ATHENJETTM is so conducted that the reader, however distant, is, in respect to Literature, Science, and Art, on an equality in point of information with the best-informed circles of the Metropolis.
Page 162 - Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing. Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Page 180 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore ; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Page 79 - Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately-flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame.