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... Robert Southwell may be found in Challoner's Memoirs of Missionary Priests , 1741. C. J. E. Your correspondent should compare " S. Peter's Complaint and Saint Mary Magdalen's EARLS OF CORNWALL ( 5th S. xi . 469 . ) — For an account of ...
... Robert Southwell may be found in Challoner's Memoirs of Missionary Priests , 1741. C. J. E. Your correspondent should compare " S. Peter's Complaint and Saint Mary Magdalen's EARLS OF CORNWALL ( 5th S. xi . 469 . ) — For an account of ...
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... ROBERT BURNS " ( 5 S. xi . 148 , 237 . ) - Burns's Address to the Deil drew from his contemporaries David Morison and John Learmont ( see their Poems , 1790 and 1791 ) " Answers , " but what W. T. is looking up must be the under ...
... ROBERT BURNS " ( 5 S. xi . 148 , 237 . ) - Burns's Address to the Deil drew from his contemporaries David Morison and John Learmont ( see their Poems , 1790 and 1791 ) " Answers , " but what W. T. is looking up must be the under ...
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... ROBERT BURNS " ( 5th S. xi . 148 , 237 . ) - Burns's Address to the Deil drew from his contemporaries David Morison and John Learmont ( see their Poems , 1790 and 1791 ) " Answers , " but what W. T. is looking up must be the under ...
... ROBERT BURNS " ( 5th S. xi . 148 , 237 . ) - Burns's Address to the Deil drew from his contemporaries David Morison and John Learmont ( see their Poems , 1790 and 1791 ) " Answers , " but what W. T. is looking up must be the under ...
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... Robert Young , LL.D. AMONGST Mr. Murray's list of forthcoming works are a Life of Bishop Wilberforce , by Canon Ashwell ; a New Dictionary of the English Language , for practical refer- ence and methodically arranged ; A Life of Albert ...
... Robert Young , LL.D. AMONGST Mr. Murray's list of forthcoming works are a Life of Bishop Wilberforce , by Canon Ashwell ; a New Dictionary of the English Language , for practical refer- ence and methodically arranged ; A Life of Albert ...
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... ROBERT FULTON . - It has recently been asserted that he was not a native of Pennsylvania , but of Scotland , and pretended to be an American for the purpose of obtaining from the Government of France some advantages for his inventions ...
... ROBERT FULTON . - It has recently been asserted that he was not a native of Pennsylvania , but of Scotland , and pretended to be an American for the purpose of obtaining from the Government of France some advantages for his inventions ...
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Page 320 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 320 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 68 - Our cuirassiers have burst on the ranks of the Accurst, And at a shock have scattered the forest of his pikes. Fast, fast, the gallants ride, in some safe nook to hide Their coward heads, predestined to rot on Temple Bar: And he — he turns, he flies: — shame on those cruel eyes That bore to look on torture, and dare not look on war.
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Page 200 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 5 - Then so many as shall be partakers of the Holy Communion shall tarry still in the quire, or in some convenient place nigh the quire, the men on the one side, and the women on the other side.
Page 60 - ild you ! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Page 96 - A Letter from Mr. Gibber to Mr. Pope, Inquiring into the Motives that might induce him in his Satyrical Works, to be frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's Name.
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Page 69 - He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and you for the liberty he fights for.