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... sense , or explain its derivation ? H. H. S. C. scription on a monument in a Devonshire church CHRONOLOGICAL DIFFICULTY . - The Latin in- to the memory of a noted Puritan member of the Long Parliament , states that be died Anno a Ducis ...
... sense , or explain its derivation ? H. H. S. C. scription on a monument in a Devonshire church CHRONOLOGICAL DIFFICULTY . - The Latin in- to the memory of a noted Puritan member of the Long Parliament , states that be died Anno a Ducis ...
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... sense of at sixes and sevens ? " Come in , and welcome ; but we are just about flitting , and are all dick upo ' sis . " C. C. B. THE WESTONS AND BAYLEYS OF MADELEY . — Can any one assist me in tracing these families back through the ...
... sense of at sixes and sevens ? " Come in , and welcome ; but we are just about flitting , and are all dick upo ' sis . " C. C. B. THE WESTONS AND BAYLEYS OF MADELEY . — Can any one assist me in tracing these families back through the ...
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... sense of twistings , and in no wise illustrates the use of wrinkle a small trick or stratagem . My edition of the Polychronicon ' has " wyndynges [ not wyndynge ] and wrynkelynges , " which , of course , refer to the various intricacies ...
... sense of twistings , and in no wise illustrates the use of wrinkle a small trick or stratagem . My edition of the Polychronicon ' has " wyndynges [ not wyndynge ] and wrynkelynges , " which , of course , refer to the various intricacies ...
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... sense the Norns or Parc¿ may be called weird ; in the other the witches of ' Macbeth ' ; and Shakspeare is quite right when he speaks of the weird sisters . The word may be applied to persons and to spirits which are generally supposed ...
... sense the Norns or Parc¿ may be called weird ; in the other the witches of ' Macbeth ' ; and Shakspeare is quite right when he speaks of the weird sisters . The word may be applied to persons and to spirits which are generally supposed ...
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... sense of these words , as in St. Luke xxiii . 11 , " Herod with his men of war " ( ovv тоîs σтраTεúμаoiv avrov ) , a rendering in- troduced by Tyndale in 1534 , Wycliffe's being " with his ooste " ; and as in Shakspere , e.g. ...
... sense of these words , as in St. Luke xxiii . 11 , " Herod with his men of war " ( ovv тоîs σтраTεúμаoiv avrov ) , a rendering in- troduced by Tyndale in 1534 , Wycliffe's being " with his ooste " ; and as in Shakspere , e.g. ...
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