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... equal to the conflict , which we may be destined to sustain ! Where , however , is the people , holding any essential rank in the political world , that has absolutely escaped the calamities of this disastrous era ? Favoured as this ...
... equal to the conflict , which we may be destined to sustain ! Where , however , is the people , holding any essential rank in the political world , that has absolutely escaped the calamities of this disastrous era ? Favoured as this ...
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... equal to the declamations sailed every year against the celebraof the schools , he applied himself to tion of the games returned from composition and historical works ; Delos , and it was known that Socrates in which he raised ...
... equal to the declamations sailed every year against the celebraof the schools , he applied himself to tion of the games returned from composition and historical works ; Delos , and it was known that Socrates in which he raised ...
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... equals , are the some burial ; and there would be proper objects of passion and anger ; nothing indecorous in a corpse lying but thou hast no equal . " along dressed with such ornaments . No. 8. - On Old Age . Thus Apollodorus addressed ...
... equals , are the some burial ; and there would be proper objects of passion and anger ; nothing indecorous in a corpse lying but thou hast no equal . " along dressed with such ornaments . No. 8. - On Old Age . Thus Apollodorus addressed ...
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... equal the height of Mount Perdy ; less useful to us by concealing both pre- and Azalea procumbens , which in cipices and plants , and had induced us the Pyrenees is not found lower than to put it off as long as possible . The day 1300 ...
... equal the height of Mount Perdy ; less useful to us by concealing both pre- and Azalea procumbens , which in cipices and plants , and had induced us the Pyrenees is not found lower than to put it off as long as possible . The day 1300 ...
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... equal case . But , as Mr. Frend inin a direction from the top to the bot- tended his plate for a little amusetom of the page . This is the mode ment for his readers , in decyphering of writing in China , and this is by it , and we have ...
... equal case . But , as Mr. Frend inin a direction from the top to the bot- tended his plate for a little amusetom of the page . This is the mode ment for his readers , in decyphering of writing in China , and this is by it , and we have ...
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Page 228 - The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding; and beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May.
Page 269 - OSSIAN. The Poems of Ossian in the Original Gaelic. With a Literal Translation into English, and a Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems.
Page 346 - The scene of the Picture is laid in that part of the road to Canterbury which commands a view of the Dulwich hills — the time, a beautiful and serene April morning. The interest of the Procession is considerably heightened by the cheerfulness of the accompanying landscape. The Pilgrims are grouped with a decorum suited to their respective characters, and in the order in which we may suppose Chaucer himself to have seen them, headed by the Miller, playing upon his pipe, under the guidance of Harry...
Page 56 - The evidence that there is a Being, all-powerful, wise, and good, by whom every thing exists ; and particularly, to obviate difficulties regarding the wisdom and goodness of the Deity ; and this, in the first place, from considerations independent of written revelation, and, in the second place, from the Revelation of the Lord Jesus ; and from the whole, to point out the inferences most necessary for and useful to mankind.
Page 375 - I was soon convinced that my means were unequal to a regular siege; the only prospect of success that presented itself was, to erect a battery as near as possible to a wall by the south gate, that joins the works to the sea, and endeavour to breach it.
Page 228 - twere mark'd in written page, Translate the wild bird's song. I wish I did his power possess, •";?• That I might learn, fleet bird, from thee, What our vain systems only guess, And know from what wide wilderness You came across the sea.
Page 114 - Take care of my dear Lady Hamilton, Hardy; take care of poor Lady Hamilton. Kiss me, Hardy,
Page 139 - French languages: the earliest known instance of the English tongue having been used in deeds, is that of the indenture between the abbot and convent of Whitby, and Robert, the son of John Bustard, dated at York, in the year 1343. The English tongue was ordered to be used in all law pleadings in 1364. Ordered to be used in all law-suits in May, 1731.
Page 129 - A sporting tour through various parts of France, in the year 1802 : including a concise description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting, and other field amusements, as practised in that country,...
Page 114 - Hardy within the first hour-and-aquarter of this period. A partial cannonade, however, was still maintained, in consequence of the enemy's running ships passing the British at different points ; and the last distant guns which were fired at their van ships that were making off, were heard a minute or two before his lordship expired.