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Page 46
... died A.D. 1074. From Christopher , who united the branches of Hochberg and Baden , and died in 1527 , proceed the branches of Baden - Baden , and Baden- Dourlach . This family makes a most conspicuous figure in the annals of Germany ...
... died A.D. 1074. From Christopher , who united the branches of Hochberg and Baden , and died in 1527 , proceed the branches of Baden - Baden , and Baden- Dourlach . This family makes a most conspicuous figure in the annals of Germany ...
Page 47
... died A.D. 709 , is mentioned as the first who introduced ballads into England . " The harp was sent round , that those might sing who could . " - Bede . Alfred sung ballads . — Malmsbury . Canute composed one . - Turner . Minstrels were ...
... died A.D. 709 , is mentioned as the first who introduced ballads into England . " The harp was sent round , that those might sing who could . " - Bede . Alfred sung ballads . — Malmsbury . Canute composed one . - Turner . Minstrels were ...
Page 68
... died , and were buried at some distance from their bower , near a beautiful bank of the river Almond , in 1645. - Greig . BETHLEHEM , the birth - place of CHRIST . The Bethlehemite monks , who had an order in England in 1257 , are named ...
... died , and were buried at some distance from their bower , near a beautiful bank of the river Almond , in 1645. - Greig . BETHLEHEM , the birth - place of CHRIST . The Bethlehemite monks , who had an order in England in 1257 , are named ...
Page 73
... died before morning , having been suffocated by the heat , crushing , and stench of a dungeon only eighteen feet square , June 20 , 1756 . Calcutta was retaken next year , and the nabob was deposed and put to death by his successor ...
... died before morning , having been suffocated by the heat , crushing , and stench of a dungeon only eighteen feet square , June 20 , 1756 . Calcutta was retaken next year , and the nabob was deposed and put to death by his successor ...
Page 74
... died , and others turned raving mad , it was suppressed by an edict . Attempted in France in 1797. Practised more recently there , in a few cases , with success ; and in England ( but the instances are rare ) since 1823. - Med . Jour ...
... died , and others turned raving mad , it was suppressed by an edict . Attempted in France in 1797. Practised more recently there , in a few cases , with success ; and in England ( but the instances are rare ) since 1823. - Med . Jour ...
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Page 71 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 28 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Page 418 - Barons' eldest Sons. Knights of the Garter. Privy Councillors. Chancellor of the Exchequer. "Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. Master of the Rolls.
Page 158 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Page 162 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Page 460 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Page 437 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 156 - Crispinus and Crispianus were brethren, born at Rome ; from whence they travelled to Soissons in France, about the year 303, to propagate the Christian religion ; but because they would not be chargeable to others for their maintenance, they exercised the trade of shoemakers; but the governor of the town discovering them to be Christians, ordered them to be beheaded about the year 303 From which time, the shoemakers made choice of them for their tutelar saints.
Page 435 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 17 - Formerly the oath of allegiance ran thus : ' I do promise to be true and faithful to the King and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear, of life, and limb, and terrene honour ; and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him, without defending him therefrom:' and was altered at the Revolution to the present form.