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... hour- And he who likes may blame , Mary- For one short hour in yonder bower , A monarch's throne , a kingdom's dower , Or hero's glorious name , Mary . Soft cradled in thy fond embrace , Does not my soul beat high , Mary ? Show me on ...
... hour- And he who likes may blame , Mary- For one short hour in yonder bower , A monarch's throne , a kingdom's dower , Or hero's glorious name , Mary . Soft cradled in thy fond embrace , Does not my soul beat high , Mary ? Show me on ...
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... hours each day for a session of six months , to drill 200 or 300 boys in the elements of a language of so much nicety and complexity , to say nothing of the dialects , of which not one in fifty knows any thing ? We trust we shall be ...
... hours each day for a session of six months , to drill 200 or 300 boys in the elements of a language of so much nicety and complexity , to say nothing of the dialects , of which not one in fifty knows any thing ? We trust we shall be ...
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... hour every Monday , Wednesday , and Friday morning , cheek for jowl with the poulterer , a spruce young whiskered dandy , cheapening a pair of buck - hens , as Pat Dunavon calls them , to make cockie - leekie withal ; a dish that both ...
... hour every Monday , Wednesday , and Friday morning , cheek for jowl with the poulterer , a spruce young whiskered dandy , cheapening a pair of buck - hens , as Pat Dunavon calls them , to make cockie - leekie withal ; a dish that both ...
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... hour , for which I was truly thankful , not being in tune to abide much banter . So he served me with a cut of his very best Double Glos'ter , and we parted . On crossing the street , I perceived a slenderish gen- tleman scratching his ...
... hour , for which I was truly thankful , not being in tune to abide much banter . So he served me with a cut of his very best Double Glos'ter , and we parted . On crossing the street , I perceived a slenderish gen- tleman scratching his ...
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... hour slipt away that I ever forgathered with . The waggoner questioned his companion , who be- longed to a neighbouring parish , ( the which information I gathered from their discourse , ) how he fared in his new situation ? to which ...
... hour slipt away that I ever forgathered with . The waggoner questioned his companion , who be- longed to a neighbouring parish , ( the which information I gathered from their discourse , ) how he fared in his new situation ? to which ...
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Page 320 - God for us : nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others : (for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world) but now once, in the end of the world, hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Page 318 - For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book...
Page 195 - And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it ? how much rather, then, when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean...
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Page 88 - The Chief of Song shall begin the singing in the common hall. He shall be next but one to the patron of the family. He shall have a harp from the King, and a gold ring from the Queen, when his office is secured to him. The harp he shall never part with.
Page 256 - Bernini, the Florentine sculptor, architect, painter and poet, a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the music, writ the comedy and built the theatre.
Page 318 - For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Page 38 - And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.
Page 107 - ... independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European Power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition towards the United States.