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... writing to you respecting this matter , has perhaps followed the course which appeared best to him , but I regret ... writer of the article , and asked him to reply to it . I now for the first time learn that " he thought it better to do ...
... writing to you respecting this matter , has perhaps followed the course which appeared best to him , but I regret ... writer of the article , and asked him to reply to it . I now for the first time learn that " he thought it better to do ...
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... writing his book ' Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall . ' It is mentioned more than once of poetry and novels . J. DYKES CAMPBELL . HAMMONDS OF SCARTHINGWELL ( 7th S. i . 107 ; vi . 252 ) .- Would MR . HAMMOND kindly send me his ...
... writing his book ' Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall . ' It is mentioned more than once of poetry and novels . J. DYKES CAMPBELL . HAMMONDS OF SCARTHINGWELL ( 7th S. i . 107 ; vi . 252 ) .- Would MR . HAMMOND kindly send me his ...
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... writing the above , I have found Lat a John Scogan , who died in 1391 , was suc- out of printers ' errors ; but the following , wh cheeded in the lordship of the manor of Hanyles occurred in a recent catalogue , deserves a niche , 1 ...
... writing the above , I have found Lat a John Scogan , who died in 1391 , was suc- out of printers ' errors ; but the following , wh cheeded in the lordship of the manor of Hanyles occurred in a recent catalogue , deserves a niche , 1 ...
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... writing his Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland , ' there was sent to him a large contribution narrating the history of Scotland from 1323 to 1390. Wyntoun did not BENT OR BENNET . - The meaning of this word reject this product of another's ...
... writing his Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland , ' there was sent to him a large contribution narrating the history of Scotland from 1323 to 1390. Wyntoun did not BENT OR BENNET . - The meaning of this word reject this product of another's ...
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... writing ? I have never seen Tours Cathedral , but I believe it is not equal in magnificence to the cathedrals of ... writer in 1842 , and according to Bae- deker they remained there till 1866 , if not longer . These curiosities I had ...
... writing ? I have never seen Tours Cathedral , but I believe it is not equal in magnificence to the cathedrals of ... writer in 1842 , and according to Bae- deker they remained there till 1866 , if not longer . These curiosities I had ...
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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.
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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.
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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!