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... feet of Aboudaab , called him his son , and requested his life in the most endearing terms . The conque- ror did not insult his misfortunes ; he said he should receive no prejudice from him ; but that he asked what it was not in his ...
... feet of Aboudaab , called him his son , and requested his life in the most endearing terms . The conque- ror did not insult his misfortunes ; he said he should receive no prejudice from him ; but that he asked what it was not in his ...
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... feet long , and others five feet three inches . He expressed a great desire to obtain one of these bodies ; but the Ro- mish priest made many objections . Those , however , a little gold re- moved , and he procured him a fe- male mummy ...
... feet long , and others five feet three inches . He expressed a great desire to obtain one of these bodies ; but the Ro- mish priest made many objections . Those , however , a little gold re- moved , and he procured him a fe- male mummy ...
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... morning a young wo man , servant to a farmer at North- down , near Margate , threw herself from a cliff about 40 feet high , and broke broke both her thighs ; the first person who came 68 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1773 . of Metastasio, 68.
... morning a young wo man , servant to a farmer at North- down , near Margate , threw herself from a cliff about 40 feet high , and broke broke both her thighs ; the first person who came 68 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1773 . of Metastasio, 68.
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... feet , and round his body eight feet three inches . When killed , he weighed 982 pounds , and cut on the chine sixteen inches and a half deep . The above pig is supposed to be the largest that ever was slaughtered in this king- dom ...
... feet , and round his body eight feet three inches . When killed , he weighed 982 pounds , and cut on the chine sixteen inches and a half deep . The above pig is supposed to be the largest that ever was slaughtered in this king- dom ...
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... feet under ground . On being exposed to the air it instantly died . Extract of a Letter from Stockholm , Feb. 12 .... " By the last letters received here from Eastern Dalecarlia , we learn , that the want of bread is so great , that ...
... feet under ground . On being exposed to the air it instantly died . Extract of a Letter from Stockholm , Feb. 12 .... " By the last letters received here from Eastern Dalecarlia , we learn , that the want of bread is so great , that ...
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Seite 244 - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood...
Seite 152 - They were not of the nature of private letters between friends. They were written by public officers to persons in public stations, on public affairs, and intended to procure public measures; they were therefore handed to other public persons, who might be influenced by them to produce those measures.
Seite 106 - That all acquisitions, made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign Princes, do of right belong to the state; 2.
Seite 147 - I know (says he) a merchantman (which shall at this time be nameless) that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings price : a shame it is to be spoken!
Seite 147 - Yea, what may bring our realm to more shame, and rebuke, than to have it noised abroad, that we are despisers of learning. I shall judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons, under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people, under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age ; this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities.
Seite 196 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Seite 227 - The scattered gleanings of a feast My frugal meals supply; But if thine unrelenting heart That slender boon deny, — The cheerful light, the vital air. Are blessings widely given; Let Nature's commoners enjoy The common gifts of Heaven. The well-taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.
Seite 227 - ... a pensive prisoner's prayer, For liberty that sighs ; And never let thine heart be shut Against the wretch's cries ! For here forlorn and sad I sit, Within the wiry grate ; And tremble at the approaching morn, Which brings impending fate.
Seite 111 - An Act to prevent paper bills of credit hereafter to be issued in any of His Majesty's colonies or plantations in America from being declared to be a legal tender in payments of money, and to prevent the legal tender of such bills as are now subsisting from being prolonged beyond the periods limited for calling in and sinking the same.
Seite 152 - ... might be influenced by them to produce those measures. Their tendency was to incense the mother country against her colonies, and, by the steps recommended, to widen the breach ; which they effected. The chief caution expressed with regard to privacy was, to keep their contents from the colony agents, who, the writers apprehended, might return them, or copies of them, to America. That apprehension was, it seems, well founded ; for the first agent who laid his hands on them, thought it his duty*...