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... Printed Books , " in the best style of art prevalent at the time of its production , " and consists of but twelve separate sheets , of two leaves each , printed on the inner side only . There are eleven illustrations , each occupying a ...
... Printed Books , " in the best style of art prevalent at the time of its production , " and consists of but twelve separate sheets , of two leaves each , printed on the inner side only . There are eleven illustrations , each occupying a ...
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... printed in the ' Remains . ' I have not BEANS IN LEAP YEAR ( 7th S. vi . 448 ) .- met with any later mention of the Westminster This strange superstition that beans grow diffe - Library . It had nothing to do , I believe , with the ...
... printed in the ' Remains . ' I have not BEANS IN LEAP YEAR ( 7th S. vi . 448 ) .- met with any later mention of the Westminster This strange superstition that beans grow diffe - Library . It had nothing to do , I believe , with the ...
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... printed at London for B. Motte and C. Bathurst , at the Middle Temple Gate , in Fleet Street . Lowndes mentions the same edition . F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY . ' BOMBASTES FURIOSO ' ( 7th S. vi . 379 ) .— In your CURIOSITIES OF CATALOGUING ...
... printed at London for B. Motte and C. Bathurst , at the Middle Temple Gate , in Fleet Street . Lowndes mentions the same edition . F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY . ' BOMBASTES FURIOSO ' ( 7th S. vi . 379 ) .— In your CURIOSITIES OF CATALOGUING ...
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... printing the Alumni Oxonienses , ' a record of the members of the birthplace , year of birth , and degrees . The ... printed in double columns . The book thus defying analysis , we will give it warmly such help as lays in our power ...
... printing the Alumni Oxonienses , ' a record of the members of the birthplace , year of birth , and degrees . The ... printed in double columns . The book thus defying analysis , we will give it warmly such help as lays in our power ...
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... Printed by R. E. for R. Baldwin , near the Black Bull in the Old Baily . 1659 . " - This work , concern- ing which I find no particulars in Lowndes , Halkett and Laing , or other bibliographers , repeats , in the form of a novel , the ...
... Printed by R. E. for R. Baldwin , near the Black Bull in the Old Baily . 1659 . " - This work , concern- ing which I find no particulars in Lowndes , Halkett and Laing , or other bibliographers , repeats , in the form of a novel , the ...
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Page 125 - When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.
Page 99 - Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.
Page 285 - ... instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Page 157 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 25 - For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish : to the one we are the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life.
Page 270 - Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Page 303 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 295 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Page 125 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state...
Page 173 - Lock,' obtained with guilt, and kept with pain, In every place is sought, but sought in vain: With such a prize no mortal must be blest, So heaven decrees!