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LONDON , SATURDAY , JANUARY 6 , 1912 . - CONTENTS . - No . 106 . seem to have been built upon until the reign of Charles II . The leases to the Earl of St. Albans ' trustees expired in 1740 , and further leases of the seventeen houses ...
LONDON , SATURDAY , JANUARY 6 , 1912 . - CONTENTS . - No . 106 . seem to have been built upon until the reign of Charles II . The leases to the Earl of St. Albans ' trustees expired in 1740 , and further leases of the seventeen houses ...
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... LONDON , MERCHANT , TEMP . CAR . II . - I should be glad of any information relating to the parentage and family of Patrick Archer of London , mer- chant , died circa 1686 , whose Irish adventures are told at some length in the ...
... LONDON , MERCHANT , TEMP . CAR . II . - I should be glad of any information relating to the parentage and family of Patrick Archer of London , mer- chant , died circa 1686 , whose Irish adventures are told at some length in the ...
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... LONDON AND Neuilly . 66 There is a ceremony , much in vogue in German students ' Kneipen , " called 66 einen Salamander reiben . " According to Spamer's Konversations - Lexikon , ' it ori- ginated in Jena over a century ago , when it ...
... LONDON AND Neuilly . 66 There is a ceremony , much in vogue in German students ' Kneipen , " called 66 einen Salamander reiben . " According to Spamer's Konversations - Lexikon , ' it ori- ginated in Jena over a century ago , when it ...
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... London Metropolitan Magazine . It is a spirited and racy collection of notes upon men and manners on the sea - coasts of England and Flanders , with a discursive range to the East Indies and Rangoon , quorum pars fuimus , and cannot ...
... London Metropolitan Magazine . It is a spirited and racy collection of notes upon men and manners on the sea - coasts of England and Flanders , with a discursive range to the East Indies and Rangoon , quorum pars fuimus , and cannot ...
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... London | Printed for S. and J. Sprint , John Nicholson , and S. Burroughs in Little Britain ; And Bell at the Cross ... LONDON LIVERPOOL OR BRISTOL . 5. O. The same as last . R. Similar to last , but the J is over the first L of ...
... London | Printed for S. and J. Sprint , John Nicholson , and S. Burroughs in Little Britain ; And Bell at the Cross ... LONDON LIVERPOOL OR BRISTOL . 5. O. The same as last . R. Similar to last , but the J is over the first L of ...
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Page 33 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 327 - MY heart has thanked thee, Bowles ! for those soft strains Whose sadness soothes me, like the murmuring Of wild-bees in the sunny showers of spring ! For hence not callous to the mourner's pains Through Youth's gay prime and thornless paths I went: And when the mightier throes of mind began, And drove me forth, a...
Page 335 - Man's life is like a winter's day, Some only breakfast, and away ; Others to dinner stay, and are full fed : The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day, Who goes the soonest has the least to pay.
Page 78 - My whole nature was so penetrated with the grief and humiliation of such considerations, that even now, famous and caressed and happy, I often forget in my dreams that I have a dear wife and children; even that I am a man: and wander desolately back to that time of my life.
Page 64 - I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Page 78 - The deep remembrance of the sense I had, of being utterly without hope now; of the shame I felt in my position; of the misery it was to my young heart to believe that day by day what I had learned, and thought, and delighted in, and raised my fancy and my emulation up by, would pass away from me, little by little, never to be brought back any more; cannot be written.
Page 262 - Mizpah ; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
Page 378 - I emphatically direct that I be buried in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner; that no public announcement be made of the time or place of my burial; that at the utmost not more than three plain mourning coaches be employed; and that those who attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hat-band, or other such revolting absurdity. I DIRECT that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb, without the addition of
Page 140 - Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. " My Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ?
Page 125 - The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And 'plunged in thought again.