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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... customs or institutions , which were certainly the cause and consequence of Greek civilization , lasted more than a thousand years , and extended over countries and peoples from Spain to India ; proving , at the same time , that the ...
... customs or institutions , which were certainly the cause and consequence of Greek civilization , lasted more than a thousand years , and extended over countries and peoples from Spain to India ; proving , at the same time , that the ...
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... custom to turn or roll a wheel about , in signification of the sun's annual course , or the sun then occupying the ... customs at Fyve Brigge Stathe , and were obliged to find a Coke - stool there . From the Court book , he further ...
... custom to turn or roll a wheel about , in signification of the sun's annual course , or the sun then occupying the ... customs at Fyve Brigge Stathe , and were obliged to find a Coke - stool there . From the Court book , he further ...
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... customs with their neighbours across the channel , in their deeming it necessary to restrain " the noisy nuisance of woman scolding , " the following ex- tract is given from the Corporation records of Carrick - will fergus : - October ...
... customs with their neighbours across the channel , in their deeming it necessary to restrain " the noisy nuisance of woman scolding , " the following ex- tract is given from the Corporation records of Carrick - will fergus : - October ...
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... custom for the Bible Clerk to knock at every room door with a key to waken the students in a morning before he begins to ring the chapel bell . This , as it should seem , is a vestige of an ancient monastic cus- tom ; for we are ...
... custom for the Bible Clerk to knock at every room door with a key to waken the students in a morning before he begins to ring the chapel bell . This , as it should seem , is a vestige of an ancient monastic cus- tom ; for we are ...
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... customs supply to us only an additional element wherewith to test , and to verify by the instruments themselves , the invaluable records which the printing press supplies , while the latter are the sole chronicles we possess of ages ...
... customs supply to us only an additional element wherewith to test , and to verify by the instruments themselves , the invaluable records which the printing press supplies , while the latter are the sole chronicles we possess of ages ...
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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.