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... evidence of a custom so odious existing in England ; and in Scotland I venture to say that there is nothing to ground a suspicion of such a right " ( Lectures on Scotch Legal Antiquities , P. 53 ) . By far the best and most exhaustive ...
... evidence of a custom so odious existing in England ; and in Scotland I venture to say that there is nothing to ground a suspicion of such a right " ( Lectures on Scotch Legal Antiquities , P. 53 ) . By far the best and most exhaustive ...
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... evidences of a friend of ancient family in Yorkshire . It was on a seal to a deed , but the seal made on the usual label of parchment had been detached from the deed to which it had be- longed . I can , therefore , give no date . The ...
... evidences of a friend of ancient family in Yorkshire . It was on a seal to a deed , but the seal made on the usual label of parchment had been detached from the deed to which it had be- longed . I can , therefore , give no date . The ...
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... evidence as the assumption that culvári means " enemy to copper . " One guess is as destitute of probability as the other . The pro- word . Why should the Lat . sulpur be borrowed from an Indian source ? Italians are not likely to have ...
... evidence as the assumption that culvári means " enemy to copper . " One guess is as destitute of probability as the other . The pro- word . Why should the Lat . sulpur be borrowed from an Indian source ? Italians are not likely to have ...
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... evidence for the existence of the fair before the granting of the charter . ΑΝΟΝ . 39 in " N. & Q. " ( see 5th S. v . 365 , 453 ; vi . 92 ) , under heading " Criticisms on the Prayer Book . " At the second of these references MR . C. S. ...
... evidence for the existence of the fair before the granting of the charter . ΑΝΟΝ . 39 in " N. & Q. " ( see 5th S. v . 365 , 453 ; vi . 92 ) , under heading " Criticisms on the Prayer Book . " At the second of these references MR . C. S. ...
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... evidence of the breadth of scope of the Andover Review . THE Johns Hopkins University Studies ( Baltimore , published by the University ; London , Trübner & Co. ) , as we have already had occasion to note , contain much that is of value ...
... evidence of the breadth of scope of the Andover Review . THE Johns Hopkins University Studies ( Baltimore , published by the University ; London , Trübner & Co. ) , as we have already had occasion to note , contain much that is of value ...
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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.