Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language, Literature, Natural History, Topography, &c. Selected from Original Letters and Documents Addressed During the Year ... to the PublisherG. Willis, 1855 |
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... Manuscript Bible , 76 . Manuscripts ' spoliation , 52 . Margaret , Queen of Scotland , 55 . Mary , Queen of Scots , 14 . Mary II . , last hours , 25 . Maryland Pattern Shilling , 3 . Masquerade Divinity , 50 , Mendizabal , 12 . Merit an ...
... Manuscript Bible , 76 . Manuscripts ' spoliation , 52 . Margaret , Queen of Scotland , 55 . Mary , Queen of Scots , 14 . Mary II . , last hours , 25 . Maryland Pattern Shilling , 3 . Masquerade Divinity , 50 , Mendizabal , 12 . Merit an ...
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... manuscript , the labour of years , and yet he only reproved the animal with a few words . She replied , both statements were true ; that her great relative esteemed a dumb animal not responsible for its actions , but that he considered ...
... manuscript , the labour of years , and yet he only reproved the animal with a few words . She replied , both statements were true ; that her great relative esteemed a dumb animal not responsible for its actions , but that he considered ...
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... manuscript of The Curse of Minerva , ' formerly in the possession of R. C. Dallas , at whose sale it sold for 167. 10s , and passed into the library of the late Smyth Piggott , Esq . of Brockley Hall , Somerset ; was purchased on the ...
... manuscript of The Curse of Minerva , ' formerly in the possession of R. C. Dallas , at whose sale it sold for 167. 10s , and passed into the library of the late Smyth Piggott , Esq . of Brockley Hall , Somerset ; was purchased on the ...
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... manuscript of this work , in the possession of the late author's nephew , is entitled , Vida y Muerte del Emperodor Carlos Quinto en Juste . The first part of the work , giving an account of the Emperor's abdication at Brussels , and ...
... manuscript of this work , in the possession of the late author's nephew , is entitled , Vida y Muerte del Emperodor Carlos Quinto en Juste . The first part of the work , giving an account of the Emperor's abdication at Brussels , and ...
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... Manuscript . Germany , in the celebration of Christmas by those whose means do not admit of their purchasing trees and the concomitant tapers . These pyramids con- sist of slight erections of slips of wood , arranged like a pyramidal ...
... Manuscript . Germany , in the celebration of Christmas by those whose means do not admit of their purchasing trees and the concomitant tapers . These pyramids con- sist of slight erections of slips of wood , arranged like a pyramidal ...
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Page 76 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering.
Page 6 - And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
Page 61 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 72 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Page 72 - No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling. If...
Page 45 - ... letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four and twenty letters.
Page 36 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 32 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Page 45 - If he had a mind to write any thing to his friend, he directed his needle to every letter that formed the words which he had occasion for, making a little pause at the end of every word or sentence, to avoid confusion. The friend, in the...
Page 61 - This stratagem to' amuse our foes, To make an hon'rable retreat, And wave a total sure defeat : For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.