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... land - owners , " from the Cymric word athref , " mansio , possessio . " 66 66 Calleva Atrebatum , now Silchester , the capital of the British Atrebates , is " the town in the wood , " the sil of Silchester being probably a remnant of ...
... land - owners , " from the Cymric word athref , " mansio , possessio . " 66 66 Calleva Atrebatum , now Silchester , the capital of the British Atrebates , is " the town in the wood , " the sil of Silchester being probably a remnant of ...
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... land . " It has always been popularly understood that this admission , coupled with the fact of his employment at first being that of a tinker , pointed to gipsy birth and origin . In another notable passage of his auto- biography ...
... land . " It has always been popularly understood that this admission , coupled with the fact of his employment at first being that of a tinker , pointed to gipsy birth and origin . In another notable passage of his auto- biography ...
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... land in the common field have from time immemorial been known by the name of a particular trade ; and there is often a popular belief that nobody , not following the trade , can legally be the owner of the lot associated with it . And ...
... land in the common field have from time immemorial been known by the name of a particular trade ; and there is often a popular belief that nobody , not following the trade , can legally be the owner of the lot associated with it . And ...
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... land , both now free , and write on the sand , That Corinth's pedagogue hath now Transferr'd his by - word to thy brow . Who is the Corinthian pedagogue , and what the " by - word " meant ? " STANDARD " TAVERN . - Whereabouts was this ...
... land , both now free , and write on the sand , That Corinth's pedagogue hath now Transferr'd his by - word to thy brow . Who is the Corinthian pedagogue , and what the " by - word " meant ? " STANDARD " TAVERN . - Whereabouts was this ...
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... land , both now free , and write on the sand , That Corinth's pedagogue hath now Transferr'd his by - word to thy brow . Who is the Corinthian pedagogue , and what the " by - word " meant ? J. [ Corinth's pedagogue is Dionysius the ...
... land , both now free , and write on the sand , That Corinth's pedagogue hath now Transferr'd his by - word to thy brow . Who is the Corinthian pedagogue , and what the " by - word " meant ? J. [ Corinth's pedagogue is Dionysius the ...
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Page 110 - ... doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.
Page 1 - For my descent then, it was, as is well known by many, of a low and inconsiderable generation ; my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land.
Page 3 - When I was last at Oxford I perused one of the whiskers ; and was reading the other, but could not go so far in it as I would have done, by reason of the impatience of my friends and fellow-travellers, who all of them pressed to see such a piece of curiosity.
Page 11 - Britain, when the lords declared by a majority of five, that no patent of honour granted to any peer of Great Britain, who was a peer of Scotland at the time of the Union, entitled such peer to sit and vote in parliament, or to sit upon the trial of peers.
Page 438 - Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakspeare...
Page 409 - To express the same maxim in other words, it is one thing to wish to have Truth on our side, and another thing to wish sincerely to be on the side of Truth.
Page 410 - ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication...
Page 195 - EDUCATION. - At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature.
Page 139 - ... This place affords no news, no subject of entertainment or amusement, for fine men of wit and pleasure about town understand not the language, and taste not the pleasures of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie.
Page 314 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.