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... terms are equally used as implying knighthood . Quære , Is there any difference or distinction ? for the terms seem equally applied to knights military or civil . Q. LAW OF ADULTERY . Can any one favour me with the name of that king who ...
... terms are equally used as implying knighthood . Quære , Is there any difference or distinction ? for the terms seem equally applied to knights military or civil . Q. LAW OF ADULTERY . Can any one favour me with the name of that king who ...
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... term " Wells " to the ancient appellation of that place , from the accidental discovery of a medicinal spring a few years since . Is it not unusual to do so , except to create a distinction with another place ? as at Tunbridge Wells and ...
... term " Wells " to the ancient appellation of that place , from the accidental discovery of a medicinal spring a few years since . Is it not unusual to do so , except to create a distinction with another place ? as at Tunbridge Wells and ...
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... term implies that it was fought in the P. R. , or that the per- formers contended in a pool of water , I leave to the etymological sagacity of UuYTE to determine ( Tepixéw ) . The hippice may , probably , be identi- Edinburgh . G ...
... term implies that it was fought in the P. R. , or that the per- formers contended in a pool of water , I leave to the etymological sagacity of UuYTE to determine ( Tepixéw ) . The hippice may , probably , be identi- Edinburgh . G ...
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... term so stern should have come to be employed to de- scribe an errand so gentle . The Saxon word willan signi- fies to spring out , to well . An old poet says : Therebye a chrystall stream did gently play , ' Which from a sacred ...
... term so stern should have come to be employed to de- scribe an errand so gentle . The Saxon word willan signi- fies to spring out , to well . An old poet says : Therebye a chrystall stream did gently play , ' Which from a sacred ...
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... term " Walsall - legged . " CUTHBERT BEDE . BRADMOOR CHURCH . - Can anyone oblige me with an account of Bradmoor church , five miles from Nottingham ? Only the tower now remains . There is a tradition in the neighbourhood that Oliver ...
... term " Walsall - legged . " CUTHBERT BEDE . BRADMOOR CHURCH . - Can anyone oblige me with an account of Bradmoor church , five miles from Nottingham ? Only the tower now remains . There is a tradition in the neighbourhood that Oliver ...
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