Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language, Literature, Natural History, Topography, &c. Selected from Original Letters and Documents Addressed During the Year ... to the PublisherG. Willis, 1855 |
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... STREET . No circumstance so readily assists topographical researches , or so indelibly impresses the memory of persons , as the connecting their names with things which are permanent , thus the designating the home of genius , as in ...
... STREET . No circumstance so readily assists topographical researches , or so indelibly impresses the memory of persons , as the connecting their names with things which are permanent , thus the designating the home of genius , as in ...
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... Street , for 221. 10s . C. R. , Dundee . - The Apollo statue that is now the theme of general admiration at Paris , is the one found at Lillebonne , of gilded bronze and not marble . The naming it an Apollo was without the slightest con ...
... Street , for 221. 10s . C. R. , Dundee . - The Apollo statue that is now the theme of general admiration at Paris , is the one found at Lillebonne , of gilded bronze and not marble . The naming it an Apollo was without the slightest con ...
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... Street , London . with pleasure that my long depending business is at MY DEAR SIR , -From your kind letter I perceive length accomplished . My best respects attend Mr. Harrison , and I shall not fail to keep his directions in mind ...
... Street , London . with pleasure that my long depending business is at MY DEAR SIR , -From your kind letter I perceive length accomplished . My best respects attend Mr. Harrison , and I shall not fail to keep his directions in mind ...
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... Street . VOL . IV . [ FEBRUARY , 1854 . Katherine Sanders , accused by the churchwardens of St. Andrews , for a common scold , and slanderer of her neighbours ; adjudged to the Ducking - stool . The Churchwardens ' and Overseers ...
... Street . VOL . IV . [ FEBRUARY , 1854 . Katherine Sanders , accused by the churchwardens of St. Andrews , for a common scold , and slanderer of her neighbours ; adjudged to the Ducking - stool . The Churchwardens ' and Overseers ...
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... Street , Leicester Square . Ne sit ancillæ tibi amor pudori Xanthia Phoceu ! prius insolentem Serva Briseis niveo colore . Movit Achillem . Movit Ajacem Telamone natum Forma captivæ dominum Tecmessæ ; Arsit Atrides medio in triumpho ...
... Street , Leicester Square . Ne sit ancillæ tibi amor pudori Xanthia Phoceu ! prius insolentem Serva Briseis niveo colore . Movit Achillem . Movit Ajacem Telamone natum Forma captivæ dominum Tecmessæ ; Arsit Atrides medio in triumpho ...
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Página 76 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering.
Página 6 - And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
Página 61 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Página 72 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Página 72 - No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling. If...
Página 45 - ... letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters.
Página 36 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Página 32 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Página 45 - If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter that formed the words which he had occasion for, making a little pause at the end of every word or sentence, to avoid confusion. The friend, in the...
Página 61 - This stratagem to' amuse our foes, To make an hon'rable retreat, And wave a total sure defeat : For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.