Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language, Literature, Natural History, Topography, &c. Selected from Original Letters and Documents Addressed During the Year ... to the PublisherG. Willis, 1853 |
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... seen a discussion , with extracts from old Churchwarden's accounts , in another valuable periodical of like character to your own , but in which at present no illustrations of any kind are admitted . You will oblige one of your ...
... seen a discussion , with extracts from old Churchwarden's accounts , in another valuable periodical of like character to your own , but in which at present no illustrations of any kind are admitted . You will oblige one of your ...
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... seen it as a quotation in a work of old date . 66 Y. S. N. DENTAL SURGERY . - In the observations on the pro- gress of Geography and Ethnology , by Mr. John Russell Bartlett , read at the Meeting of the New York Histo- rical Society in ...
... seen it as a quotation in a work of old date . 66 Y. S. N. DENTAL SURGERY . - In the observations on the pro- gress of Geography and Ethnology , by Mr. John Russell Bartlett , read at the Meeting of the New York Histo- rical Society in ...
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... seen a windmill in America . YOUR N. Y. ES - PECIAL REPORTER . from the research of A. K. in Willis's " Current Notes " THOMAS HOOD . - How lamentable is it to observe , for December ( p . 90 ) , and for which I sincerely thank his ...
... seen a windmill in America . YOUR N. Y. ES - PECIAL REPORTER . from the research of A. K. in Willis's " Current Notes " THOMAS HOOD . - How lamentable is it to observe , for December ( p . 90 ) , and for which I sincerely thank his ...
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... seen is 1 sen ʼn the bian sex w , scetices 1s 1 pall me era of Monata rey tera do ne de var f gong the compute berent : with any Kler erent tereny de lening if her sand ! It na dw more igis in de gate of the Ime's Z K. R. BROWN . Pasca ...
... seen is 1 sen ʼn the bian sex w , scetices 1s 1 pall me era of Monata rey tera do ne de var f gong the compute berent : with any Kler erent tereny de lening if her sand ! It na dw more igis in de gate of the Ime's Z K. R. BROWN . Pasca ...
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... seen Dr. Aquilla Smith's Catalogue of the Tradesmen's Tokens current in Ireland me . How , therefore , could I overlook pages which do between the years 1637 and 1679 which was printed in not exist in my copy ? Now , suppose no such ...
... seen Dr. Aquilla Smith's Catalogue of the Tradesmen's Tokens current in Ireland me . How , therefore , could I overlook pages which do between the years 1637 and 1679 which was printed in not exist in my copy ? Now , suppose no such ...
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Page 59 - Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began...
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Page 60 - And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull. 54 Then he called hastily unto the young man his armour-bearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him.
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Page vi - ... intend not with controversies and quotations to delay or interrupt the smooth course of history ; much less to argue and debate long who were the first inhabitants, with what probabilities, what authorities each opinion hath been upheld ; but shall endeavour that which hitherto hath been needed most, with plain and lightsome brevity, to relate well and orderly things worth the noting, so as may best instruct and benefit them that read.
Page 35 - For the Sound. But no mortal power shall now That crew and vessel save — They are shrouded as they go In a hurricane of snow, And the track beneath her prow Is their grave.
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Page 101 - And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.