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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... late as 1814 , who had been in a ball room with Pope . " I knew a lady , " said Wolcot immediately , " who was grand - niece of Sir Isaac Newton . Her name was Burr , she died at Bath in 1790 , about eighty years old . She lived with an ...
... late as 1814 , who had been in a ball room with Pope . " I knew a lady , " said Wolcot immediately , " who was grand - niece of Sir Isaac Newton . Her name was Burr , she died at Bath in 1790 , about eighty years old . She lived with an ...
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... late as 1625 it was reprinted by the Company of Stationers as a hand- book of instruction for law students . BYRON . - The original manuscript of The Curse of Minerva , ' formerly in the possession of R. C. Dallas , at whose sale it ...
... late as 1625 it was reprinted by the Company of Stationers as a hand- book of instruction for law students . BYRON . - The original manuscript of The Curse of Minerva , ' formerly in the possession of R. C. Dallas , at whose sale it ...
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... late author's nephew , is entitled , Vida y Muerte del Emperodor Carlos Quinto en Juste . The first part of the work , giving an account of the Emperor's abdication at Brussels , and his voyage to Spain , follows the ordinary ...
... late author's nephew , is entitled , Vida y Muerte del Emperodor Carlos Quinto en Juste . The first part of the work , giving an account of the Emperor's abdication at Brussels , and his voyage to Spain , follows the ordinary ...
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... late Lord Hol land . The song in question was written for the celebration of Lord Melville's acquittal , and sung at a dinner given in Edinburgh for that purpose on the 27th of June , 1806 . Mr. Fox at that time was not known to be ill ...
... late Lord Hol land . The song in question was written for the celebration of Lord Melville's acquittal , and sung at a dinner given in Edinburgh for that purpose on the 27th of June , 1806 . Mr. Fox at that time was not known to be ill ...
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... late Rev. James Ford , editor of the Suffolk Garland ; the late Augustine Page , editor of the Supplement to Kirby's Suffolk Traveller ; and other collections , are now preparing for publication , as a second and considerably enlarged ...
... late Rev. James Ford , editor of the Suffolk Garland ; the late Augustine Page , editor of the Supplement to Kirby's Suffolk Traveller ; and other collections , are now preparing for publication , as a second and considerably enlarged ...
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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.