The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character, Volumen2W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1832 |
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... took strict and impartial examination ' of the evidence , and ' found neither art nor collusion - the cure done , the author an invisible God . ' In the seventeenth century , however , the well seems to have lost its reputation . St ...
... took strict and impartial examination ' of the evidence , and ' found neither art nor collusion - the cure done , the author an invisible God . ' In the seventeenth century , however , the well seems to have lost its reputation . St ...
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... took place on the 1st of July , and which was destined to be the precursor of achievements highly important to the wellbeing of society : ' An experiment took place on the river Thames , for the purpose of working a barge or any other ...
... took place on the 1st of July , and which was destined to be the precursor of achievements highly important to the wellbeing of society : ' An experiment took place on the river Thames , for the purpose of working a barge or any other ...
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... took fright at it , and started aside ; that his majesty , as the apparition lasted only a moment , took it for a deception of sight , and therefore spoke of it to no one . " " This last circumstance struck the minister ; and he now ...
... took fright at it , and started aside ; that his majesty , as the apparition lasted only a moment , took it for a deception of sight , and therefore spoke of it to no one . " " This last circumstance struck the minister ; and he now ...
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... took an active part in the measures for the resistance of taxation , and for diffusing the same spirit through the other provinces . Elected in 1775 to the Continental Congress , he zealously promoted the movement for a complete ...
... took an active part in the measures for the resistance of taxation , and for diffusing the same spirit through the other provinces . Elected in 1775 to the Continental Congress , he zealously promoted the movement for a complete ...
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... took place in 1767 , the pump - and - block - makers of Wapping , to the amount of thirty or forty , used to come each first Friday of July to the Fairlop beans - and - bacon feast , seated in a boat formed of a single piece of wood ...
... took place in 1767 , the pump - and - block - makers of Wapping , to the amount of thirty or forty , used to come each first Friday of July to the Fairlop beans - and - bacon feast , seated in a boat formed of a single piece of wood ...
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Página 284 - A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Página 173 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Página 299 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Página 219 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Página 234 - God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender! God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender. Who that pretender is, and who that king, God bless us all! is quite another thing.
Página 4 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Página 469 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die. who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid : as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground ; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Página 266 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Página 485 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Página 299 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...