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... whole- have continued unaltered . It should be added sale errors as abound throughout that work . that this same comet was , in July , 1770 , not more GEORGE Offor . than seven times the moon's distance from the Hackney . earth : had ...
... whole- have continued unaltered . It should be added sale errors as abound throughout that work . that this same comet was , in July , 1770 , not more GEORGE Offor . than seven times the moon's distance from the Hackney . earth : had ...
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... whole the modern hymnbook is a sad affair in comparison with the old hymnbook . It is generally supposed that the hymn went out of the church on the appearance of our Prayer- book , but a reference to the words of the music sung in the ...
... whole the modern hymnbook is a sad affair in comparison with the old hymnbook . It is generally supposed that the hymn went out of the church on the appearance of our Prayer- book , but a reference to the words of the music sung in the ...
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... whole , are superior to his original pieces ; although amongst the latter , which are generally brief , there are several fully equal to anything that his age produced . I doubt not the Divine Weeks and Duys , which he paraphrased from ...
... whole , are superior to his original pieces ; although amongst the latter , which are generally brief , there are several fully equal to anything that his age produced . I doubt not the Divine Weeks and Duys , which he paraphrased from ...
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... whole history of these assignats is given in Dunkin's Dartford , p . 233. The partisans of the expatriated princes entered into a contract with a stationer in St. Paul's Churchyard , who employed Mr. Finch to make the paper at Dartford ...
... whole history of these assignats is given in Dunkin's Dartford , p . 233. The partisans of the expatriated princes entered into a contract with a stationer in St. Paul's Churchyard , who employed Mr. Finch to make the paper at Dartford ...
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... whole , to its machinery for preventing fraudulent assumption of titles , to its new Medical Council , to the hardship of making established practitioners pay a heavy fee for being written down in a book . Nor have the lighter features ...
... whole , to its machinery for preventing fraudulent assumption of titles , to its new Medical Council , to the hardship of making established practitioners pay a heavy fee for being written down in a book . Nor have the lighter features ...
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Page 193 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
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Page 268 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost: Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on...
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Page 95 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.