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:
Էջ 14
... taken concerning the death of the two persons mentioned by him , was sent for again to the intendant , who now listened to him with far greater attention than he had done before ; then giving him dispatches to Mons . de Baobefieux ...
... taken concerning the death of the two persons mentioned by him , was sent for again to the intendant , who now listened to him with far greater attention than he had done before ; then giving him dispatches to Mons . de Baobefieux ...
Էջ 41
... taken into consideration , the punishment of hanging was changed to beheading . So , as Don Pantaleon , attended by a number of his brother's followers , was being con- veyed in a mourning - coach with six horses , from Newgate to the ...
... taken into consideration , the punishment of hanging was changed to beheading . So , as Don Pantaleon , attended by a number of his brother's followers , was being con- veyed in a mourning - coach with six horses , from Newgate to the ...
Էջ 56
... taken on the 14th of July , and despatched in a similar manner at Brentford . While these six unfortunates lay in their vile captivity at Fulham , Bonner felt annoyed at their presence , and wished to get them out of the way ; but he ...
... taken on the 14th of July , and despatched in a similar manner at Brentford . While these six unfortunates lay in their vile captivity at Fulham , Bonner felt annoyed at their presence , and wished to get them out of the way ; but he ...
Էջ 63
... taken place when the 15th of July was dry . It is , indeed , likely enough that a track of wet weather , or the opposite , may occur at this period of the year , as a change generally takes place soon after midsummer , the character of ...
... taken place when the 15th of July was dry . It is , indeed , likely enough that a track of wet weather , or the opposite , may occur at this period of the year , as a change generally takes place soon after midsummer , the character of ...
Էջ 78
... taken , for it was necessary to dispel a prejudice which was rising against her - namely , that she was a witch- and she was carried to Poitiers , to be examined before a meeting of the ecclesiastics of Charles's party , who were ...
... taken , for it was necessary to dispel a prejudice which was rising against her - namely , that she was a witch- and she was carried to Poitiers , to be examined before a meeting of the ecclesiastics of Charles's party , who were ...
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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...