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... common use , are said to have been invented by Dædalus , an artificer of Athens , to whom also is ascribed the invention of masts and sails for ships , 1240 B.C. AZORES , OR WESTERN ISLES , supposed to be the site of the ancient ...
... common use , are said to have been invented by Dædalus , an artificer of Athens , to whom also is ascribed the invention of masts and sails for ships , 1240 B.C. AZORES , OR WESTERN ISLES , supposed to be the site of the ancient ...
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... common person , one shilling , 7 William III . 1695. Bachelors were subjected to a double tax on their male and female servants , in 1785 . BACKGAMMON . Palamedes of Greece is the reputed inventor of this game ( decidedly one of the ...
... common person , one shilling , 7 William III . 1695. Bachelors were subjected to a double tax on their male and female servants , in 1785 . BACKGAMMON . Palamedes of Greece is the reputed inventor of this game ( decidedly one of the ...
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... common law , before and since the Conquest , all felonies were bailable , till murder was excepted by statute ; and by the 3d Edward I. the power of bailing in treason , and in divers instances of felony , was taken away , 1274 . Bail ...
... common law , before and since the Conquest , all felonies were bailable , till murder was excepted by statute ; and by the 3d Edward I. the power of bailing in treason , and in divers instances of felony , was taken away , 1274 . Bail ...
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... common name , 1649 . Bark was first brought into medical practice in England by Sir Hans Sloane . BARM , OR YEAST , said to have been first used by the Celta in the composition of bread . Eggs , milk , and honey , were the ingredients ...
... common name , 1649 . Bark was first brought into medical practice in England by Sir Hans Sloane . BARM , OR YEAST , said to have been first used by the Celta in the composition of bread . Eggs , milk , and honey , were the ingredients ...
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... common - place in England . - Rogers . BASQUE ROADS . Heroic achievement in these roads by the British ; four French ships of the line while riding at anchor were attacked by lord Gambier , and with much shipping were destroyed , April ...
... common - place in England . - Rogers . BASQUE ROADS . Heroic achievement in these roads by the British ; four French ships of the line while riding at anchor were attacked by lord Gambier , and with much shipping were destroyed , April ...
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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.