Proceedings of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, Volumen3

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Página 159 - Certainly, my affections to you are so unchangeable, that hostility itself cannot violate my friendship to your person. But I must be true to the cause wherein I serve. The old limitation usque ad aras, holds still ; and where my conscience is interested, all other obligations are swallowed up.
Página 159 - That great God, who is the Searcher of my heart, knows with what a sad sense I go upon this service, and with what a perfect hatred I detest this war without an enemy.
Página 401 - ... baker, and the butler. His leisure or ennui was charmed by the acrobat and the dancer, the harpist and the singer ; games of chance and skill were played either by him or in his presence. The chief occupation of the period, or at all events that most often represented in the tombs, was the inspection of the farm.
Página 160 - His good time send us peace ! and in the mean time fit us to receive it. We are both on the stage, and we must act the parts that are assigned us in this tragedy. Let us do it in a way of honour, and. without personal animosities.
Página 164 - As the Queen was bathing in the King's Bath, there arose from the bottom of the cistern, just by the side of Her Majesty, a flame of fire, like a candle, which had no sooner ascended to the top of the water than it spread itself upon the surface into a large circle of light, and then became extinct.
Página 364 - MS Here lyeth buried so much as could dye of ANNE, the wife of IZAAK WALTON; Who was a Woman of remarkable pi udenec, and of the Primitive Piety ; her great, and general, Knowledge being adorned with such true Humility, and blest with so much Christian Meekness as made her worthy of a more memorable monument. She dyed (alas that she is dead !) the 17th of April, 1662, Aged 52. Study to be like her.
Página 159 - And I know the conference could never be so close between us but that it would take wind and receive a construction to my dishonour. That great God...
Página 285 - The permanent absence of ozone from the air of a locality may, however, be regarded as a proof that the air is adulterated air. Its absence from the air of towns and of large rooms, even in the country, is probably the chief cause of the difference which every one feels when he breathes the air of a town or of an apartment, however spacious, and afterwards inhales the fresh or ozone-containing air of the open country.
Página 159 - The experience I have had of your worth, and the happiness I have enjoyed in your friendship, are wounding considerations, when I look upon the present distance between us. Certainly my affections to you are so unchangeable, that hostility itself cannot violate my friendship to your person ; but I must be true to the cause wherein I serve. The old limitation...
Página 346 - In Harrington's good old translation of the Orlando there are six-and-forty pictures, as there are sixand-forty books ; and, says the translator, " they are all cut in brass, and most of them by the best workmen in that kind that have been in this land this many years ; yet I will not praise them too much because I gave direction for their making.

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