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... occurs in The Queen's Closet Opened , Lond . , 1655 , 12mo . , A receipt to help Digestion . -Take two quarts of small ale , " & c . 66 27 Gratia Dei . Cotgrave tells us that this name was applied to the hedge hyssop , to the blue ...
... occurs in The Queen's Closet Opened , Lond . , 1655 , 12mo . , A receipt to help Digestion . -Take two quarts of small ale , " & c . 66 27 Gratia Dei . Cotgrave tells us that this name was applied to the hedge hyssop , to the blue ...
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... occurs the following line , " And Kenmuir's lads are men in vain . " To what does this expression refer - any saying or tradition connected with the house of Kenmuir ? MISS PORTER'S " SCOTTISH CHIEFS . " - Is the character of Edwin ...
... occurs the following line , " And Kenmuir's lads are men in vain . " To what does this expression refer - any saying or tradition connected with the house of Kenmuir ? MISS PORTER'S " SCOTTISH CHIEFS . " - Is the character of Edwin ...
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... occurs in the inscription on his monument as that of his first wife . By her he had three daughters , Bridget , Catharine , and Margaret . Bridget became the wife of Robert Dymoke of Scrivelsby ; and thus the Champions of England since ...
... occurs in the inscription on his monument as that of his first wife . By her he had three daughters , Bridget , Catharine , and Margaret . Bridget became the wife of Robert Dymoke of Scrivelsby ; and thus the Champions of England since ...
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... occurs once in the New Testa- The alteration to rate , as derivable from the Latin " ratus - i , established , approved , confirmed , " had once suggested itself to me . But no altera- tion seems required ; the Syndici lati- , or the ...
... occurs once in the New Testa- The alteration to rate , as derivable from the Latin " ratus - i , established , approved , confirmed , " had once suggested itself to me . But no altera- tion seems required ; the Syndici lati- , or the ...
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... occurring by land and sea . " Bushy House , Monday night ( 1808 ? ) . " Dear Sir , -In answer to yours of 20th and 30th Sept. I am to observe that having directed my young man of business to forward to you at Stonehouse the Warrant I am ...
... occurring by land and sea . " Bushy House , Monday night ( 1808 ? ) . " Dear Sir , -In answer to yours of 20th and 30th Sept. I am to observe that having directed my young man of business to forward to you at Stonehouse the Warrant I am ...
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Page 110 - I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Page 26 - He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country : there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
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Page 245 - Hence the good and happiness of the members — that is, the majority of the members — of any state, is the great standard by which everything relating to that state must finally be determined...
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Page 147 - Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
Page 108 - Regulator, of all the actions of his life. Humane, generous, and liberal, his Hand never stopped till he had relieved distress. So nicely regulated were all his motions, that he never went wrong, except when set a-going by people who did not know his Key : even then he was easily set right again.
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Page 435 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.