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... victory over the Danes in the year 1010 , resolved to found a new bishopric , in token of his gratitude for his success , and pitched upon Mortlich in Banff - shire , where St. Beanus was first bishop , 1015. The see was removed early ...
... victory over the Danes in the year 1010 , resolved to found a new bishopric , in token of his gratitude for his success , and pitched upon Mortlich in Banff - shire , where St. Beanus was first bishop , 1015. The see was removed early ...
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... victory , the conqueror built the city of Nicopolis , and insti- tuted the Actian games . - Blair . ACTRESSES . Women in the drama appear to have been unknown to the ancients ; men or eunuchs performing the female parts . Charles II ...
... victory , the conqueror built the city of Nicopolis , and insti- tuted the Actian games . - Blair . ACTRESSES . Women in the drama appear to have been unknown to the ancients ; men or eunuchs performing the female parts . Charles II ...
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... victory over Henry VI . , of whose army 5000 were slain , while that of the duke of York suffered no material loss , fought May 22 , 1455. The second , between the Yorkists under the earl of Warwick , and the Lancastrians , commanded by ...
... victory over Henry VI . , of whose army 5000 were slain , while that of the duke of York suffered no material loss , fought May 22 , 1455. The second , between the Yorkists under the earl of Warwick , and the Lancastrians , commanded by ...
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... Victory , of 110 guns and 1100 men , was also wrecked here , October 8 , 1744 , when the admiral , sir John Balchan , and all his crew , perished on the rocks . ALE AND WINE . They are said to have been invented by Bacchus ; the former ...
... Victory , of 110 guns and 1100 men , was also wrecked here , October 8 , 1744 , when the admiral , sir John Balchan , and all his crew , perished on the rocks . ALE AND WINE . They are said to have been invented by Bacchus ; the former ...
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... victory , amounted to thirty millions sterling ; and the jewels and other precious spoil , belonging to Darius , sufficed to load 20,000 mules and 5,000 camels . — Plutarch . ARBITRATION . Submissions to arbitration may be a rule of APP ...
... victory , amounted to thirty millions sterling ; and the jewels and other precious spoil , belonging to Darius , sufficed to load 20,000 mules and 5,000 camels . — Plutarch . ARBITRATION . Submissions to arbitration may be a rule of APP ...
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Seite 69 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Seite 199 - Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die ('Twas even to thee), yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.
Seite 26 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Seite 299 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head.
Seite 14 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'.
Seite 475 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Seite 155 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Seite 459 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Seite 556 - If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles on the housetops I would go.
Seite 373 - ... thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.