Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things Selected from "Notes and Queries" |
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... Never to sit above the salt ; Third , that he never change his trencher twise ; Fourth , that he use all common courtesies , Sit bare at meales , and one half rise and wait ; Last , that he never his yong maister beat , But he must aske ...
... Never to sit above the salt ; Third , that he never change his trencher twise ; Fourth , that he use all common courtesies , Sit bare at meales , and one half rise and wait ; Last , that he never his yong maister beat , But he must aske ...
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... never heard of more . Richard Baker still continued to live in seclusion , but he gradually repur- chased his alienated property , although he was known to have spent all he possessed before he left England . But wickedness was not ...
... never heard of more . Richard Baker still continued to live in seclusion , but he gradually repur- chased his alienated property , although he was known to have spent all he possessed before he left England . But wickedness was not ...
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... never have heard of , much less seen one , we shall in a word or two describe it — nothing , indeed , could be more simple . It was a bright brass ring , about three quarters of an inch broad , and two inches and a half in diameter ...
... never have heard of , much less seen one , we shall in a word or two describe it — nothing , indeed , could be more simple . It was a bright brass ring , about three quarters of an inch broad , and two inches and a half in diameter ...
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... never moving it , save that once he wiped his face with it , till it was burnt away , which was consumed before the fire reached his body . He expressed no disorder from the pain he was in ; sometimes saying , " That unworthy hand ...
... never moving it , save that once he wiped his face with it , till it was burnt away , which was consumed before the fire reached his body . He expressed no disorder from the pain he was in ; sometimes saying , " That unworthy hand ...
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... never all for he who everything often more than tell you may know tells he knows tells he knows attempt you can do attempts he can do attempts he can do believe you may hear believes he hears believes he hears lay out you can afford ...
... never all for he who everything often more than tell you may know tells he knows tells he knows attempt you can do attempts he can do attempts he can do believe you may hear believes he hears believes he hears lay out you can afford ...
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Page 302 - Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 142 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Page 195 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints whom all men grant To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 232 - Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Page 68 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 235 - Sure the last end Of the good man is peace ! How calm his exit ! Night-dews fall not more gently to the ground, Nor weary worn-out winds expire so soft.
Page 309 - Even as a broken mirror, which the glass In every fragment multiplies ; and makes A thousand images of one that was, The same, and still the more, the more it breaks ; And thus the heart will do which not forsakes.
Page 101 - Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give; They lack, I leave; they pine, I live.
Page 295 - Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue. Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo! Creation widened in man's view.
Page 116 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.