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... death . - Numbers xv . 32 , et seq . But how he came to be imprisoned in the moon , observes Mr. Douce , has not yet been accounted for . The man in the moon , ' says Ritson , is represented leaning upon a fork , on which he carries a ...
... death . - Numbers xv . 32 , et seq . But how he came to be imprisoned in the moon , observes Mr. Douce , has not yet been accounted for . The man in the moon , ' says Ritson , is represented leaning upon a fork , on which he carries a ...
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... Death . In 1652 , I purchased my house and some lands in Hersham , in the parish of Walton - upon - Thames , in the county of Surrey , where I now live . The purchase of the house and lands , and buildings , stood And nigh an ancient ...
... Death . In 1652 , I purchased my house and some lands in Hersham , in the parish of Walton - upon - Thames , in the county of Surrey , where I now live . The purchase of the house and lands , and buildings , stood And nigh an ancient ...
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... death of his father he succeeded to those offices , in addition to which he was afterwards appointed judge of Morocco and Mauritania . He attained great eminence by his discourses on natural philosophy , religion , law , and medicine ...
... death of his father he succeeded to those offices , in addition to which he was afterwards appointed judge of Morocco and Mauritania . He attained great eminence by his discourses on natural philosophy , religion , law , and medicine ...
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... death of Cæsar are mentioned by several of the classical authors . † Should we not read Look ? This is a very old superstition . It was also thought to be the forerunner of some calamity to put either shoe on the wrong foot . Auguste ...
... death of Cæsar are mentioned by several of the classical authors . † Should we not read Look ? This is a very old superstition . It was also thought to be the forerunner of some calamity to put either shoe on the wrong foot . Auguste ...
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... death , to which he replied by desiring that the day of his death should be kept annually as a holiday in their schools . This custom was strictly observed for many centuries . Anaxagoras was the first of the Greek philosophers who ...
... death , to which he replied by desiring that the day of his death should be kept annually as a holiday in their schools . This custom was strictly observed for many centuries . Anaxagoras was the first of the Greek philosophers who ...
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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.