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... the hieroglyphics , will be found in a practical view to be still closer , as they have been employed in a similiar manner , namely , for the important purpose of forming private records or memorials of every sort of valu- able 39.
... the hieroglyphics , will be found in a practical view to be still closer , as they have been employed in a similiar manner , namely , for the important purpose of forming private records or memorials of every sort of valu- able 39.
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Robert Deverell. private records or memorials of every sort of valu- able knowledge in every art and science . Other methods of enigmatical disguise , sub- servient to the same purposes , might be these ; the referring to a particular ...
Robert Deverell. private records or memorials of every sort of valu- able knowledge in every art and science . Other methods of enigmatical disguise , sub- servient to the same purposes , might be these ; the referring to a particular ...
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... sort of knowledge , disguised in the like manner , and are subject to the like sort of explication as the Greek and Latin authors . The same may be said of heraldry , and orna- mental architecture , whether considered sepa- rately or ...
... sort of knowledge , disguised in the like manner , and are subject to the like sort of explication as the Greek and Latin authors . The same may be said of heraldry , and orna- mental architecture , whether considered sepa- rately or ...
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... sort of tree is not so much as known in those southern parts of Persia , whereas the northern part , bordering on the Caspian Lake , and especially the province of Kilan , are stored with them near the sca - shore ; it is 126.
... sort of tree is not so much as known in those southern parts of Persia , whereas the northern part , bordering on the Caspian Lake , and especially the province of Kilan , are stored with them near the sca - shore ; it is 126.
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... sort of position , ( inasmuch as it constitutes the termi- nating point of the more important parts of Eu- rope , ) as because the name of Mngions would seem to be derivable from ungos , agreeing with the circumstance that Denmark or ...
... sort of position , ( inasmuch as it constitutes the termi- nating point of the more important parts of Eu- rope , ) as because the name of Mngions would seem to be derivable from ungos , agreeing with the circumstance that Denmark or ...
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Page 151 - That musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his grey hairs any violence?
Page 89 - Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
Page 227 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Page 85 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 276 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink ? 25 And he cried unto the Lord ; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet...
Page 149 - I do not think my sister so to seek, Or so unprincipled in virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
Page 159 - Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Page 216 - To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky.
Page 138 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 166 - I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death...