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... issue of 27 March ( Saturday ) : - " Lately at Aberdeen James Moir , aged 101. He was brother - in - law to the veteran M'Dougal , who supported General Wolfe , after he received his mortal wound on the plains of Quebec . The wife of ...
... issue of 27 March ( Saturday ) : - " Lately at Aberdeen James Moir , aged 101. He was brother - in - law to the veteran M'Dougal , who supported General Wolfe , after he received his mortal wound on the plains of Quebec . The wife of ...
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... issue . Hanover Square at the time it was built was quite suburban , and Pennant remembered the neighbouring Oxford Road as being eastward from this spot , as far as High Street , St. Giles's , only a few isolated houses on its northern ...
... issue . Hanover Square at the time it was built was quite suburban , and Pennant remembered the neighbouring Oxford Road as being eastward from this spot , as far as High Street , St. Giles's , only a few isolated houses on its northern ...
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... issue , italicized in the note , the evidence of Carlyle ( ' Cromwell's Letters and Speeches , ' vol . iii . p . 103 ) , who in his ' Chronological ' Preface to Part IX . writes : - " This day [ 3 June , 1655 ] the French Treaty , not ...
... issue , italicized in the note , the evidence of Carlyle ( ' Cromwell's Letters and Speeches , ' vol . iii . p . 103 ) , who in his ' Chronological ' Preface to Part IX . writes : - " This day [ 3 June , 1655 ] the French Treaty , not ...
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... issue cost ll . , second - hand . A former owner has written on the half - title page : — " This is not a book for anybody to see , there being very objectionable parts in it - in the Intro- ductory Essay chiefly . It contains , however ...
... issue cost ll . , second - hand . A former owner has written on the half - title page : — " This is not a book for anybody to see , there being very objectionable parts in it - in the Intro- ductory Essay chiefly . It contains , however ...
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... issue , and is therefore regarded by the law with greater respect than her sisters . R. S. B. " GULA AUGUSTI " ( 10 S. v . 408 , 499 ; vi . various names by which the August festival 15 , 72 , 135 ; vii . 257 , 313 , 394 ) .- The was ...
... issue , and is therefore regarded by the law with greater respect than her sisters . R. S. B. " GULA AUGUSTI " ( 10 S. v . 408 , 499 ; vi . various names by which the August festival 15 , 72 , 135 ; vii . 257 , 313 , 394 ) .- The was ...
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Page 180 - The Grand Old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men. He marched them up to the top of the hill And he marched them down again. And when they were up, they were up, And when they were down, they were down, And when they were only half-way up They were neither up nor down.
Page 394 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea. Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Page 115 - Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul wouldst reach ! It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech. Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.
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Page 220 - ... started in their stalls, stamped, and shook their bridles, the men arose and clashed their armour, and the mortal, terrified at the tumult he had excited, dropped the horn from his hand. A voice like that of a giant, louder even than the tumult around, pronounced these words : — " Woe to the coward that ever he was born, That did not draw the sword before he blew the horn.