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... century form , in two Scottish actions , presumably either in the Court of Session or in the Commissary Court of Edinburgh . The Advocates ' Library contains many thousands of such papers . They were always signed by counsel , and " Ro ...
... century form , in two Scottish actions , presumably either in the Court of Session or in the Commissary Court of Edinburgh . The Advocates ' Library contains many thousands of such papers . They were always signed by counsel , and " Ro ...
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... century has now elapsed since I sent it from Fiji , I would crave the Editor's permission repeat it . It was to ask what connexion existed between this " famous dancer and the old Inns of Court Rifle Volunteers , or " The Devil's Own ...
... century has now elapsed since I sent it from Fiji , I would crave the Editor's permission repeat it . It was to ask what connexion existed between this " famous dancer and the old Inns of Court Rifle Volunteers , or " The Devil's Own ...
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... Century German Converts - The Nineteenth Century ' The Burlington . ' French Books . Notes . WATERLOO . ( Concluded from p . 3. ) I SUBJOIN two more letters written by the Rev. Spencer Madan from Brussels with reference to the battle of ...
... Century German Converts - The Nineteenth Century ' The Burlington . ' French Books . Notes . WATERLOO . ( Concluded from p . 3. ) I SUBJOIN two more letters written by the Rev. Spencer Madan from Brussels with reference to the battle of ...
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... century , was 66 Ancient Dominion ' evolved the name of as applied to Virginia , and that name remained in vogue for still another century , but has now been displaced by " Old Dominion . " The true origin of the phrase , sometimes ...
... century , was 66 Ancient Dominion ' evolved the name of as applied to Virginia , and that name remained in vogue for still another century , but has now been displaced by " Old Dominion . " The true origin of the phrase , sometimes ...
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... century younger than Winchester's ' Dulce Domum . ' This is not the heading under which to discuss the very difficult question as to the date of the words and music of the Wyke- hamist Domum . ' It would seem , however , far more likely ...
... century younger than Winchester's ' Dulce Domum . ' This is not the heading under which to discuss the very difficult question as to the date of the words and music of the Wyke- hamist Domum . ' It would seem , however , far more likely ...
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Page 206 - 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 126 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Page 363 - Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground : for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Page 38 - Christian kings, inflamed by black desire, With honourable ruffians in their hire, Cause war to rage, and blood around to pour : Of this sad work when each begins to tire, They sit them down just where they were before, Till for new scenes of woe peace shall their force restore.
Page 311 - At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air, at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward.
Page 130 - Every one accustomed to very young children knows how seldom one can get an answer even to so simple a question as whether a thing is black or white ; the idea of black or white seems alternately to fill their minds. So it was with these Fuegians...
Page 337 - The forehead and temples had lost little or nothing of their muscular substance ; the cartilage of the nose was gone, but the left eye, in the first moment of exposure, was open and full, though it vanished almost immediately ; and the pointed beard...
Page 55 - Of prelatists abjured : though here their dust Lies mixt with murderers and other crew, Whom justice justly did to death pursue. But as for them no cause was to be found Worthy of death ; but only they were...
Page 170 - Item. Ten thousand francs to the subaltern officer Cantillon, who has undergone a trial upon the charge of having endeavoured to assassinate Lord Wellington, of which he was pronounced innocent. Cantillon had as much right to assassinate that ofigarckist, as the latter had to send me to perish upon the rock of St. Helena.
Page 391 - An example to his order, a blessing to his people, and a name to be by them ever gratefully remembered.