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... believe ) no English judge for some centuries has adopted this natural hirsute appendage . No doubt this custom is a survival of the days when " the priest all shaven and shorn " was the principal lawyer . We know the coif of the ...
... believe ) no English judge for some centuries has adopted this natural hirsute appendage . No doubt this custom is a survival of the days when " the priest all shaven and shorn " was the principal lawyer . We know the coif of the ...
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... believe , heir of her border within . I cannot take it down , as it is a mother only . This fact might account for the fixture in a panel , where I placed it forty years omission of the arms of Fitz Hugh , which would ago . I have seen ...
... believe , heir of her border within . I cannot take it down , as it is a mother only . This fact might account for the fixture in a panel , where I placed it forty years omission of the arms of Fitz Hugh , which would ago . I have seen ...
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... believe he [ Justinian ] had never heard say that ignorance should be the cause of true devotion , as boldly avouched in the disputation at Westminster in the hearing and wondering of the most part of the honourable and worshipful of ...
... believe he [ Justinian ] had never heard say that ignorance should be the cause of true devotion , as boldly avouched in the disputation at Westminster in the hearing and wondering of the most part of the honourable and worshipful of ...
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... believe , a book by Dr. Karl Schmidt , entitled Jus Prima Noctis . I have , I regret to say , never had an opportunity of seeing it . It was reviewed by Mr. W. E. A. Axon in the Academy of March 25 , 1882. I gather from this notice that ...
... believe , a book by Dr. Karl Schmidt , entitled Jus Prima Noctis . I have , I regret to say , never had an opportunity of seeing it . It was reviewed by Mr. W. E. A. Axon in the Academy of March 25 , 1882. I gather from this notice that ...
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... believe , originally published by Mr. James Burns . I think that it has passed through but one edition . If that be the case , the copy which I possess must be one of a remainder with a new title - page . It runs thus : " German Ballads ...
... believe , originally published by Mr. James Burns . I think that it has passed through but one edition . If that be the case , the copy which I possess must be one of a remainder with a new title - page . It runs thus : " German Ballads ...
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Page 13 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Page 436 - Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation : 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.
Page 314 - WEEP, daughter of a royal line, A Sire's disgrace, a realm's decay ; Ah ! happy if each tear of thine Could wash a father's fault away ! Weep — for thy tears are Virtue's tears — Auspicious to these suffering isles J And be each drop in future years Repaid thee by thy people's smiles ! March, lSI1 THE CHAIN I GAVE.
Page 178 - There was a good number entertained with good cheer by the chamberlain ; and after dinner they went to hunting the fox : there was a great cry for a mile, and at length the hounds killed him at the end of St. Giles's.
Page 352 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 6 - Thus having said, the gallant chiefs alight, Their hands they join, their mutual faith they plight ; Brave Glaucus then each narrow thought resign'd, (Jove warm'd his bosom, and enlarged his mind,) For Diomed's brass arms, of mean device, For which nine oxen paid, (a vulgar price,) He gave his own, of gold divinely wrought," A hundred beeves the shining purchase bought.
Page 64 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 371 - She was, — but words are wanting to say what ; Think what a wife should be, and she was that !" Pope was fond of writing epitaphs.
Page 196 - tis true : The elder of them, being put to nurse, "Was by a beggar-woman stol'n away ; And, ignorant of his birth and parentage, Became a bricklayer when he came to age : His son am I ; deny it, if you can.
Page 11 - A solemn league and covenant for Reformation and Defence of Religion, the honour and happiness of the King, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of England. Scotland and Ireland.