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... died on the 11th September , 1781. Ernesti was a man of considerable abilities , and especially of a very methodical mind , to which are due the great improvements in the system of teaching introduced by him , and still , to a certain ...
... died on the 11th September , 1781. Ernesti was a man of considerable abilities , and especially of a very methodical mind , to which are due the great improvements in the system of teaching introduced by him , and still , to a certain ...
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... died in 1805 , and an ill - assorted second marriage increased his domestic disquietudes , injured his reputation , and gave pain to his friends . He died Nov. 17 , 1823 . Lord Erskine's talents were peculiarly those of an ac ...
... died in 1805 , and an ill - assorted second marriage increased his domestic disquietudes , injured his reputation , and gave pain to his friends . He died Nov. 17 , 1823 . Lord Erskine's talents were peculiarly those of an ac ...
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... died before such descent shall have taken place . [ AT- TAINDER . ] And by the 4 & 5 William IV . , c . 23 , no pro- perty vested in any trustee or mortgagee shall escheat or be forfeited by reason of the attainder or conviction for any ...
... died before such descent shall have taken place . [ AT- TAINDER . ] And by the 4 & 5 William IV . , c . 23 , no pro- perty vested in any trustee or mortgagee shall escheat or be forfeited by reason of the attainder or conviction for any ...
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... died A.D. 1539. A Be- nedictine nunnery was founded here by the first earl of Oxford and his wife , A.D. 1190. Its revenues at the dissolu- tion were valued at 297. 128. 10d . The nunnery , long since converted into a farm - house , and ...
... died A.D. 1539. A Be- nedictine nunnery was founded here by the first earl of Oxford and his wife , A.D. 1190. Its revenues at the dissolu- tion were valued at 297. 128. 10d . The nunnery , long since converted into a farm - house , and ...
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... died in prison ; and two persons ( one a woman ) were burnt at Stratford . The year 1571 was remarkable for the settlement of the Flemish refugees at Colchester ; they introduced the woollen manufacture into that and several other towns ...
... died in prison ; and two persons ( one a woman ) were burnt at Stratford . The year 1571 was remarkable for the settlement of the Flemish refugees at Colchester ; they introduced the woollen manufacture into that and several other towns ...
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Seite 153 - ... and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case, but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
Seite 267 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.
Seite 267 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Seite 218 - Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the customs and services which I ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help me God and His saints"; and he shall kiss the book.
Seite 177 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.
Seite 101 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Seite 259 - ... of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil ; sometimes it was deposited in fireships, the victims and instruments of a more ample revenge, and...
Seite 267 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Seite 213 - If a ferry is erected on a river, so near another ancient ferry as to draw away its custom, it is a nuisance to the owner of the old one. For where there is a ferry by prescription, the owner is bound to keep it always in repair and readiness, for the ease of all the king's subjects; otherwise he may be...
Seite 230 - ... of the court, the plaintiff is at liberty to proceed against him for any other personal injury; which surmise, of being in the marshal's custody, the defendant is not at liberty to dispute.