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... vols . 8vo , by Wilson . They have also been abstractedly versified in an 8vo volume , 1742 , in a very curious manner , for the help of the memory , and the method seems to have been recommended by the practice of lord Coke himself ...
... vols . 8vo , by Wilson . They have also been abstractedly versified in an 8vo volume , 1742 , in a very curious manner , for the help of the memory , and the method seems to have been recommended by the practice of lord Coke himself ...
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... vols . 8vo , in Latin , because tom . 1 , and tom . 13 , are divided each into two , 1744 et seqq . An abridgment of this work , 5 vols . 12mo ; a scholastic work in 2 vols . ; " Tr . des Dis- penses , " 3 vols .; " Tr . des Saints ...
... vols . 8vo , in Latin , because tom . 1 , and tom . 13 , are divided each into two , 1744 et seqq . An abridgment of this work , 5 vols . 12mo ; a scholastic work in 2 vols . ; " Tr . des Dis- penses , " 3 vols .; " Tr . des Saints ...
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... vols . 12mo , an abridgment of Pontas , 2 vols . 4to , & c . 1 COLLET ( PHILIBERT ) , a learned advocate of parlia- ment of Dombes , was born February 15 , 1643 , at Chatilon- les - Dombes , where he died March 31 , 1718 , aged seventy ...
... vols . 12mo , an abridgment of Pontas , 2 vols . 4to , & c . 1 COLLET ( PHILIBERT ) , a learned advocate of parlia- ment of Dombes , was born February 15 , 1643 , at Chatilon- les - Dombes , where he died March 31 , 1718 , aged seventy ...
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... vols . 8vo ; the first of which was printed in 1697 , and its success encouraged the author to publish a second in 1705 , and a third in 1709 . These were written with such a mixture of learning and wit , and in a style so easy and ...
... vols . 8vo ; the first of which was printed in 1697 , and its success encouraged the author to publish a second in 1705 , and a third in 1709 . These were written with such a mixture of learning and wit , and in a style so easy and ...
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... vols . folio , " An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain , chiefly of England , from the first planting of Christianity , to the end of the reign of Charles II . with a brief account of the affairs of religion in Ireland , collected ...
... vols . folio , " An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain , chiefly of England , from the first planting of Christianity , to the end of the reign of Charles II . with a brief account of the affairs of religion in Ireland , collected ...
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Seite 316 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Seite 161 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Seite 49 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Seite 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Seite 382 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Seite 472 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be...
Seite 161 - His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion ; his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations.
Seite 62 - A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers...
Seite 160 - Congreve has merit of the highest kind; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue. Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed...
Seite 381 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.