Miscellaneous Works, 4. köideD.A. Talboys, 1830 |
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Page viii
... taken up with inscriptions , ruins , and antiquities . Among the authors of our own country , we are obliged to the bishop of Salisbury , for his masterly and uncommon observations on the religion and governments of Italy : Lassels may ...
... taken up with inscriptions , ruins , and antiquities . Among the authors of our own country , we are obliged to the bishop of Salisbury , for his masterly and uncommon observations on the religion and governments of Italy : Lassels may ...
Page 10
... taken up . They have already too , as the monks told us , begun to justify themselves by miracles . At the corner of one of the cloisters of this convent are buried the duke of Suffolk and the duke of Lorraine , who were both killed in ...
... taken up . They have already too , as the monks told us , begun to justify themselves by miracles . At the corner of one of the cloisters of this convent are buried the duke of Suffolk and the duke of Lorraine , who were both killed in ...
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... the undulation is quite worn out , like the several reverberations of the same image from two opposite looking - glasses . Father Kircher has taken notice of this particular echo , as father Bartolin has done since 20 REMARKS ON ITALY .
... the undulation is quite worn out , like the several reverberations of the same image from two opposite looking - glasses . Father Kircher has taken notice of this particular echo , as father Bartolin has done since 20 REMARKS ON ITALY .
Page 39
... taken up in the midst of their very streets , which is such a natural magazine as few other places can boast of . Our voyage writers will needs have this city in great danger of being left , within an age or two , on the terra firma ...
... taken up in the midst of their very streets , which is such a natural magazine as few other places can boast of . Our voyage writers will needs have this city in great danger of being left , within an age or two , on the terra firma ...
Page 47
... taken from some celebrated action of the an- cient Greeks or Romans , which sometimes looks ridiculous enough ; for who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch , especially when they may ...
... taken from some celebrated action of the an- cient Greeks or Romans , which sometimes looks ridiculous enough ; for who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch , especially when they may ...
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