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... Bear engage for reformation ? Made all the royal stars recant , Compound , and take the covenant ? ' siege of Colchester ; and he tells us that the Council of State gave him , on another occasion , £ 50 , and settled a pension on him of ...
... Bear engage for reformation ? Made all the royal stars recant , Compound , and take the covenant ? ' siege of Colchester ; and he tells us that the Council of State gave him , on another occasion , £ 50 , and settled a pension on him of ...
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... Bear , is sometimes called the Driver . A constellation in the northern hemisphere consisting of fifty - five stars . Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus , King of Ethiopia . § Alluding to the saying attributed to Plato , that the Deity ...
... Bear , is sometimes called the Driver . A constellation in the northern hemisphere consisting of fifty - five stars . Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus , King of Ethiopia . § Alluding to the saying attributed to Plato , that the Deity ...
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... Bear's - tail's end ; That as she whisked it towards the Sun , Strowed mighty empires up and down ; Which others say must needs be false , Because your true bears have no tails . * John Bodin , a French lawyer , born at Angers , and ...
... Bear's - tail's end ; That as she whisked it towards the Sun , Strowed mighty empires up and down ; Which others say must needs be false , Because your true bears have no tails . * John Bodin , a French lawyer , born at Angers , and ...
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... bear , The dogs beat you at Brentford fair ; Where sturdy butchers broke your noddle , ‡ And handled you like a fop doodle.'§ Quoth Hudibras , ' I now perceive You are no conjurer , by your leave : That paltry story is untrue , || And ...
... bear , The dogs beat you at Brentford fair ; Where sturdy butchers broke your noddle , ‡ And handled you like a fop doodle.'§ Quoth Hudibras , ' I now perceive You are no conjurer , by your leave : That paltry story is untrue , || And ...
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... bear witness , and go fetch us A constable to seize the wretches ; For though they're both false knaves and cheats , Impostors , jugglers , counterfeits , I'll make them serve for perpendic❜lars , As true as e'er were used by ...
... bear witness , and go fetch us A constable to seize the wretches ; For though they're both false knaves and cheats , Impostors , jugglers , counterfeits , I'll make them serve for perpendic❜lars , As true as e'er were used by ...
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Page 122 - Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you, seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business ; but we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Page 196 - For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
Page 36 - Bumbastus kept a devil's bird Shut in the pummel of his sword, That taught him all the cunning pranks Of past and future mountebanks.
Page 213 - Like Charity ; else right and wrong Could never hold it out so long, And, like blind Fortune, with a sleight, Convey men's interest and right From Stiles's pocket into Nokes's, As easily as Hocus Pocus...
Page 15 - And was old dog at physiology; But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again: And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was...
Page 51 - There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war; A thief and justice, fool and knave, A huffing officer and a slave; A crafty lawyer and a pick-pocket, A great philosopher and a blockhead; A formal preacher and a player, A learn'd physician and manslayer.
Page 71 - s done, Or may I never see the sun ; For which I humbly now demand Performance at your gentle hand; 170 And that you'd please to do your part As I have done mine, to my smart.
Page 134 - That us'd to break up ground and dig), The bride to nothing but her will, That nulls the after-marriage still: Some were for th...
Page 212 - Meanwhile they robb'd me and my horse, And stole my saddle," — " Worse and worse !'" " And made me mount upon the bare ridge, T" avoid a wretcheder miscarriage.
Page 225 - Could never equal, nor come nigh. ' For women first were made for men, Not men for them. — It follows, then, That men have right to every one, And they no freedom of their own; And therefore men have power to choose, But they no charter to refuse.