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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... obtained from such authorities . In this conviction , Dr. Johnson , whom I honestly believe to be unequalled as a lexicographer , must to a great extent have worked ; and any large additions to his great work , compiled in that spirit ...
... obtained from such authorities . In this conviction , Dr. Johnson , whom I honestly believe to be unequalled as a lexicographer , must to a great extent have worked ; and any large additions to his great work , compiled in that spirit ...
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... obtained the approbation of Duroveray and other competent judges as an unquestionable pro- duction of Michel Angelo , passed into the collection of William Conyngham , Esq . , of Kemp Town , Brighton ; where it is believed to be still ...
... obtained the approbation of Duroveray and other competent judges as an unquestionable pro- duction of Michel Angelo , passed into the collection of William Conyngham , Esq . , of Kemp Town , Brighton ; where it is believed to be still ...
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... obtained admiration , and was adopted as a fashion at court , under the name of Isabella colour ; ' a yellow or soiled buff , better imagined than described . MONUMENTAL SLAB , AT BINDON ABBEY , DORSETSHIRE . BINDON ABBEY , situated ...
... obtained admiration , and was adopted as a fashion at court , under the name of Isabella colour ; ' a yellow or soiled buff , better imagined than described . MONUMENTAL SLAB , AT BINDON ABBEY , DORSETSHIRE . BINDON ABBEY , situated ...
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... obtain from them legitimate etymons . Southwick Vicarage , May 1 . T. R. BROWN . EAST AND WEST POSITION OF CHURCHES . - Can a reason be assigned for the departure , by the Roman Catholics of the present age , from the practice when our ...
... obtain from them legitimate etymons . Southwick Vicarage , May 1 . T. R. BROWN . EAST AND WEST POSITION OF CHURCHES . - Can a reason be assigned for the departure , by the Roman Catholics of the present age , from the practice when our ...
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... obtained them from the now duly appreciated Royal Aca- demician at thirty guineas each . Such is the result of a just discrimination , and an opportune patronage of the painters of our day . ERRATA . - Page 26 , col . 2 , line 5 , for ...
... obtained them from the now duly appreciated Royal Aca- demician at thirty guineas each . Such is the result of a just discrimination , and an opportune patronage of the painters of our day . ERRATA . - Page 26 , col . 2 , line 5 , for ...
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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.