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... sometimes adduced on both sides from authors of repute , our wish being to make our readers acquainted with the grammars of others , as well as with that which we may venture to call our own . An attentive reader will notice several ...
... sometimes adduced on both sides from authors of repute , our wish being to make our readers acquainted with the grammars of others , as well as with that which we may venture to call our own . An attentive reader will notice several ...
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... Sometimes called Robert de Brunne . A learned monk , au- thor of some Rhyming Transla- tions from the French . ' His writings exhibit the language in a considerably more advanced state than that of the monk of Glo'ster . SEMI - SAXON ...
... Sometimes called Robert de Brunne . A learned monk , au- thor of some Rhyming Transla- tions from the French . ' His writings exhibit the language in a considerably more advanced state than that of the monk of Glo'ster . SEMI - SAXON ...
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... sometimes too vo- luptuous . An eminent divine and man of great wit and learning . His principal work is his Medita- tions . His writings have gained him the appellation of the En- glish Seneca . ' * Our present translation of the Bible ...
... sometimes too vo- luptuous . An eminent divine and man of great wit and learning . His principal work is his Medita- tions . His writings have gained him the appellation of the En- glish Seneca . ' * Our present translation of the Bible ...
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... sometimes called the Norman genitive . Many plurals of the Saxon stage , formed by n or en , were in this stage formed by es or is . From about the end of the eleventh century there appears to be no important literary production in the ...
... sometimes called the Norman genitive . Many plurals of the Saxon stage , formed by n or en , were in this stage formed by es or is . From about the end of the eleventh century there appears to be no important literary production in the ...
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... Sometimes this termination was made a separate word and took the letter h before it , as in the Litany , ' For Jesus Christ his sake . ' The letter e at the end of numerous words now be- came silent , and in many instances was omitted ...
... Sometimes this termination was made a separate word and took the letter h before it , as in the Litany , ' For Jesus Christ his sake . ' The letter e at the end of numerous words now be- came silent , and in many instances was omitted ...
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Page 254 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 42 - That God and nature put into our hands!" I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature, but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalpingknife...
Page 78 - That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 33 - Since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 117 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim. The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.
Page 308 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 41 - For it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never.
Page 39 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Page 250 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 42 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.