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With wood and iren , ledde and salt , And lyme abundaintlie , And every thing that mankinde want , This land doth well supplie . " G. O. FAMILY OF BRAY . - Can any of your correspondents inform me where Edmund Bray , Esq . , lived , who ...
With wood and iren , ledde and salt , And lyme abundaintlie , And every thing that mankinde want , This land doth well supplie . " G. O. FAMILY OF BRAY . - Can any of your correspondents inform me where Edmund Bray , Esq . , lived , who ...
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Then the Holy Land , or a large portion of it ( the actual limits were mentioned ) , was to be placed under the flag of the Knights ; while , subsequently , as the hopes of the small , struggling community descended from point to point ...
Then the Holy Land , or a large portion of it ( the actual limits were mentioned ) , was to be placed under the flag of the Knights ; while , subsequently , as the hopes of the small , struggling community descended from point to point ...
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... pronounced booing ; although in every Scotch newspaper there are advertisements of " Bowings to be let . " A farmer , having more grass land than he means to farm , lets it off as a Bowing : that is , he under - nity , takes to find ...
... pronounced booing ; although in every Scotch newspaper there are advertisements of " Bowings to be let . " A farmer , having more grass land than he means to farm , lets it off as a Bowing : that is , he under - nity , takes to find ...
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A Tour in Tartan Land . By Cuthbert Bede . ( Bentley ) . Those of our readers who contemplate making a visit to the Land of the Heather , will do wisely to make acquaintance with this volume . They will find Mr. Cuthbert Bede an amusing ...
A Tour in Tartan Land . By Cuthbert Bede . ( Bentley ) . Those of our readers who contemplate making a visit to the Land of the Heather , will do wisely to make acquaintance with this volume . They will find Mr. Cuthbert Bede an amusing ...
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land to the year 787. It may be doubted , however , whether this is the correct date . It is not improbable that it is a postponement . In the Collection of letters of S. Boniface and others published by Dr. Giles , there occurs an ...
land to the year 787. It may be doubted , however , whether this is the correct date . It is not improbable that it is a postponement . In the Collection of letters of S. Boniface and others published by Dr. Giles , there occurs an ...
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Page 432 - When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Page 49 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 34 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 305 - And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Page 264 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 330 - Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Page 34 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 109 - That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on.
Page 341 - Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply .. Unask'd, what good thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though ask'd, deny.