First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 Seiten |
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... says the poet , To expiate his treason hath nought left , But to destruction , sacred and devote , He , with his whole posterity , must die : Die he , or justice must ; unless for him Some other , able , and as willing , pay The rigid ...
... says the poet , To expiate his treason hath nought left , But to destruction , sacred and devote , He , with his whole posterity , must die : Die he , or justice must ; unless for him Some other , able , and as willing , pay The rigid ...
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... says , a leather bag , containing about two hundred silver coins of Rome , was found ; in Dundaff Moor , a number of similar coins were found about forty years ago ; in Annan Moss , near the Roman Causeway , an ornament of pure gold was ...
... says , a leather bag , containing about two hundred silver coins of Rome , was found ; in Dundaff Moor , a number of similar coins were found about forty years ago ; in Annan Moss , near the Roman Causeway , an ornament of pure gold was ...
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Hugh Miller. destination . One good harvest after another had , as sailors say , taken the wind out of its sails ; and now here evidently was there a strong gale arising full in its poop . It was palp- ably on the eve of making great way ...
Hugh Miller. destination . One good harvest after another had , as sailors say , taken the wind out of its sails ; and now here evidently was there a strong gale arising full in its poop . It was palp- ably on the eve of making great way ...
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... says an ingenious writer in the North British Review , " contains the Constitutiones Lyncolnienses , inserted as proper rules for the priests of that northern province , from which we learn that they were to enter the place of worship ...
... says an ingenious writer in the North British Review , " contains the Constitutiones Lyncolnienses , inserted as proper rules for the priests of that northern province , from which we learn that they were to enter the place of worship ...
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... says Burnet , “ came generally to hear us , though not in great crowds . We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government , and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in matters of ...
... says Burnet , “ came generally to hear us , though not in great crowds . We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government , and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in matters of ...
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Seite 253 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Seite 345 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Seite 309 - And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Seite 274 - Within the twilight of their distant shades; There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shortened to its topmost boughs. No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar; paler some.
Seite 51 - mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft to hear the passing steed, And frequent round him rolls his sullen eyes, If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise.
Seite 211 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Seite 273 - So strong the zeal to immortalize himself Beats in the breast of man, that e'en a few, Few transient years, won from th' abyss abhorr'd Of blank oblivion, seem a glorious prize, And even to a clown. Now roves the eye ; And, posted on this speculative height, Exults in its command. The sheepfold here Pours out its fleecy tenants o'er the glebe.
Seite 309 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Seite 23 - 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.
Seite 116 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong; Her form each beauty of her mind express'd, Her mind was Virtue by the Graces dress'd.