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... thing that mankinde want , This land doth well supplie . " G. O. FAMILY OF BRAY . - Can any of your correspon- dents inform me where Edmund Bray , Esq . , lived , who in 1705-11 was probably resident on some estate near Blenheim ...
... thing that mankinde want , This land doth well supplie . " G. O. FAMILY OF BRAY . - Can any of your correspon- dents inform me where Edmund Bray , Esq . , lived , who in 1705-11 was probably resident on some estate near Blenheim ...
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... thing , as in " un gentilhomme de bonne souche . " In old time the goldsmiths ( Lombards and Ve- netians , by the way ) , were wont to keep their own and their customers ' money in the king's treasury ; and the flagitious shutting up of ...
... thing , as in " un gentilhomme de bonne souche . " In old time the goldsmiths ( Lombards and Ve- netians , by the way ) , were wont to keep their own and their customers ' money in the king's treasury ; and the flagitious shutting up of ...
Page 49
... thing concerning Capt . Kerridge as to his career , his parentage , or time of death , the information will oblige . He was supposed to have resided at Shelley , in the county of Suffolk . S. E. G. - LOCKWOOD , EDWARD VI.'S JESTER . In ...
... thing concerning Capt . Kerridge as to his career , his parentage , or time of death , the information will oblige . He was supposed to have resided at Shelley , in the county of Suffolk . S. E. G. - LOCKWOOD , EDWARD VI.'S JESTER . In ...
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... things come together . Horace , in the ninth proposition of his first book , connects them as follows : " Nunc et ... thing well known as the astrolabe ; and this is the name Bourne gives it . The astro- labe seems to have become a ...
... things come together . Horace , in the ninth proposition of his first book , connects them as follows : " Nunc et ... thing well known as the astrolabe ; and this is the name Bourne gives it . The astro- labe seems to have become a ...
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... thing to ring 720 triples and doubles , and Grandsire Bob in half an hour . " This account is the more interesting , as it car- ries us back to the beginning of change - ringing as now practised . In 1677 , Campanalogia , or , Art of ...
... thing to ring 720 triples and doubles , and Grandsire Bob in half an hour . " This account is the more interesting , as it car- ries us back to the beginning of change - ringing as now practised . In 1677 , Campanalogia , or , Art of ...
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Page 432 - 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 49 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 34 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 305 - And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Page 264 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 330 - Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Page 34 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 109 - That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on.
Page 341 - Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply .. Unask'd, what good thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though ask'd, deny.