A brief memoir [by F.B. Ribbans] of Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward ... librarian in ordinary to the queen and keeper of the prints and drawings at Windsor castleLondon : Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1873 - 182 էջ |
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... pleased to wander in the grounds of Frogmore . Here , too , he frequently met his friend Brown , who had been the constant medical attendant on the Duchess of Kent - but whether in attendance on his Royal patient , or in the society of ...
... pleased to wander in the grounds of Frogmore . Here , too , he frequently met his friend Brown , who had been the constant medical attendant on the Duchess of Kent - but whether in attendance on his Royal patient , or in the society of ...
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... pleased to express his appro- bation of the following lines " On the Sudden Death of the Author's Mother , affectionately inscribed to his Cousin Ellen , wife of Admiral White , Rockwood , Newton Abbott " : - " One wish she often ...
... pleased to express his appro- bation of the following lines " On the Sudden Death of the Author's Mother , affectionately inscribed to his Cousin Ellen , wife of Admiral White , Rockwood , Newton Abbott " : - " One wish she often ...
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... pleased to call it merely a " felicitous accident ; " therefore he says , in a letter to the editor , " I can claim no " credit for the recommendation of him . The 66 discredit would have been had I overlooked him " at the moment . All ...
... pleased to call it merely a " felicitous accident ; " therefore he says , in a letter to the editor , " I can claim no " credit for the recommendation of him . The 66 discredit would have been had I overlooked him " at the moment . All ...
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... pleased with solitude must be either a wild beast or an angel . ' Those who prefer living without society , are generally remarkable for their natural defects or perfections - they must possess something very savage or very supernal ...
... pleased with solitude must be either a wild beast or an angel . ' Those who prefer living without society , are generally remarkable for their natural defects or perfections - they must possess something very savage or very supernal ...
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... pleased to reveal of Him- self , and are therefore highest authority in the language in which they were dictated - but in translations we must depend on , or bear with , human learning , which at the best is but a feeble substitute for ...
... pleased to reveal of Him- self , and are therefore highest authority in the language in which they were dictated - but in translations we must depend on , or bear with , human learning , which at the best is but a feeble substitute for ...
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Էջ 82 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Էջ 109 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering. 16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God...
Էջ 47 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Էջ 133 - as face answereth to face in water, so the heart of man to man...
Էջ 134 - Nor is this a hasty decision, it is after much reflection, that it would be offending against delicacy between friends, and that it would be an unhallowed intrusion for one to read what doubtless was poured forth from the heart in an address to the Almighty as it passed to the paper. This judgment, for the reason given, cannot be wrong. " Neither preparation nor answer in any matter are our own; for we are told that the 'preparation of the heart and the answer of the tongue are both alike from the...
Էջ 22 - ... the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is never quenched a.
Էջ 47 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Էջ 113 - Those who prefer living without society, are generally remarkable for their natural defects or perfections — they must possess something very savage or very supernal. Another old man says that all our pursuits are baubles, except four, ie, ' Old books to read, Old wine to drink, Old wood to burn, and Old friends to chat with.' " Thank " Thank you most truly also for your thoughts of my health. As for the 'REVIEW,
Էջ 166 - My dear Sir: — I have to thank you for a copy of the first volume of your Dictionary of Authors, which you have had the kindness to send me.
Էջ 92 - Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.