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, Հատոր 2W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1832 |
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Արդյունքներ 100–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... remarkable for the brightness , purity , or taste of its water , was forthwith followed by its dedication to some saint ; and once placed among the category of holy wells , its waters were endued , by popular faith , with powers more or ...
... remarkable for the brightness , purity , or taste of its water , was forthwith followed by its dedication to some saint ; and once placed among the category of holy wells , its waters were endued , by popular faith , with powers more or ...
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... remarkable history . Wood informs us that he died of a broken heart , in consequence of the ill - usage he received from a certain knight . He himself , though a doctor of Oxford , and member of the Royal College of Physi- cians of ...
... remarkable history . Wood informs us that he died of a broken heart , in consequence of the ill - usage he received from a certain knight . He himself , though a doctor of Oxford , and member of the Royal College of Physi- cians of ...
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... remarkable boy , whose powers of mental calculation were deemed quite inexpli- cable . The boy , named Vito Mangiamele , a Sicilian , was the son of a shepherd , and was about eleven years old . The examiners asked him several questions ...
... remarkable boy , whose powers of mental calculation were deemed quite inexpli- cable . The boy , named Vito Mangiamele , a Sicilian , was the son of a shepherd , and was about eleven years old . The examiners asked him several questions ...
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... remarkable . Both he and his friend John Adams , the one the author and the other the chief advocate of the Declaration of Independence each having filled the highest offices in the Republic they founded - died on the 4th of July 1826 ...
... remarkable . Both he and his friend John Adams , the one the author and the other the chief advocate of the Declaration of Independence each having filled the highest offices in the Republic they founded - died on the 4th of July 1826 ...
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... remarkable , as he himself disliked tea , and made no use of it . He had a number of little aversions , but no resent- ments . It changed the usual composed and amiable expression of his countenance to hear of any one going to law . He ...
... remarkable , as he himself disliked tea , and made no use of it . He had a number of little aversions , but no resent- ments . It changed the usual composed and amiable expression of his countenance to hear of any one going to law . He ...
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection ..., Հատոր 2 Robert Chambers Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1878 |
The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection ..., Հատոր 2 Robert Chambers Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1864 |
The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection ..., Հատոր 2 Robert Chambers Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1869 |
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 219 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 266 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Էջ 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!
Էջ 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...