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... connexion , as prolonged as any recorded in literary history- a connexion never clouded by suspicion , never disturbed by even the shadow of a misunderstanding . It began in the year 1842 , sixty - six years ago , when Lord Macaulay's ...
... connexion , as prolonged as any recorded in literary history- a connexion never clouded by suspicion , never disturbed by even the shadow of a misunderstanding . It began in the year 1842 , sixty - six years ago , when Lord Macaulay's ...
Pagina 6
... connexion with the members of her own family ; and as she came to woman- hood , she developed the faculty of foretelling things in some degree . She could read the fortunes of folks in their faces as well as by the lines in their hands ...
... connexion with the members of her own family ; and as she came to woman- hood , she developed the faculty of foretelling things in some degree . She could read the fortunes of folks in their faces as well as by the lines in their hands ...
Pagina 13
... connexion with a meeting for thanksgiving and festivity held by former scholars of Christ's Hospital on 15 Sept. , 1629. The thanksgiving was in Christ Church , Newgate Street ; the festivity in the Great Hall of the Hospital . Under ...
... connexion with a meeting for thanksgiving and festivity held by former scholars of Christ's Hospital on 15 Sept. , 1629. The thanksgiving was in Christ Church , Newgate Street ; the festivity in the Great Hall of the Hospital . Under ...
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... connexion with all matters pertaining to a Private Library they will feel it a privilege to be referred to . 140 , STRAND , LONDON , W.C. 37 , PICCADILLY , W. Founded in 1816 in Little Tower Street , City . THE BOOKSELLERS ' PROVIDENT ...
... connexion with all matters pertaining to a Private Library they will feel it a privilege to be referred to . 140 , STRAND , LONDON , W.C. 37 , PICCADILLY , W. Founded in 1816 in Little Tower Street , City . THE BOOKSELLERS ' PROVIDENT ...
Pagina 29
... connexion with John Paterson , son of " Old Mortality , " who went to Baltimore in 1774 or 1776 . " " " The In view of this discussion and. learned . " 9 The usual term 66 messuage is not here ( nor is it with the Eybury terms ) , the ...
... connexion with John Paterson , son of " Old Mortality , " who went to Baltimore in 1774 or 1776 . " " " The In view of this discussion and. learned . " 9 The usual term 66 messuage is not here ( nor is it with the Eybury terms ) , the ...
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Pagina 317 - HOW firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent word ! What more can he say than to you he hath said, You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled...
Pagina 341 - Who is on my side? who?" And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses : and he trode her under foot.
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Pagina 156 - beginning his studies of this kind with Every Man in his " Humour and, after, Every Man out of his Humour...
Pagina 197 - Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him.
Pagina 109 - The true gentleman is God's servant, the world's master, and his own man ; Virtue is his business. Study his recreation. Contentment his rest, and Happiness his reward, God is his Father, Jesus Christ his Saviour, the Saints his brethren, and all that need him.
Pagina 197 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice...
Pagina 197 - That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street, carried to the duke's house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he...
Pagina 290 - Caesar should be a beast without a heart If he should stay at home to-day for fear. No, Caesar shall not: danger knows full well That Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions littered in one day, And I the elder and more terrible: — And Caesar shall go forth.
Pagina 419 - Theoretically, of course, one ought always to try for the best word. But practically, the habit of excessive care in word-selection frequently results in loss of spontaneity; and, still worse, the habit of always taking the best word too easily becomes the habit of always taking the most ornate word, the word most removed from ordinary speech.