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, 1853 |
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... piece from the hand with just sufficient force to go beyond the line , which counts so many ; but if the piece lies half off and half on the farther end it counts double . But to do that requires great skill and long practice . The ...
... piece from the hand with just sufficient force to go beyond the line , which counts so many ; but if the piece lies half off and half on the farther end it counts double . But to do that requires great skill and long practice . The ...
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... pieces , with the regular Rules of the Game . I suppose I have said enough for the present . With my sincere thanks for your information about Queen Mary's ring , although I should like to know for certain where it is , I am , yours ...
... pieces , with the regular Rules of the Game . I suppose I have said enough for the present . With my sincere thanks for your information about Queen Mary's ring , although I should like to know for certain where it is , I am , yours ...
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... pieces ( and Taverns at that time were more abundant in proportion to the population than now ) , I conceive that Taverns alone would supply an amount nearly equal to Mr. Boyne's calculation . But as every collector knows that the ...
... pieces ( and Taverns at that time were more abundant in proportion to the population than now ) , I conceive that Taverns alone would supply an amount nearly equal to Mr. Boyne's calculation . But as every collector knows that the ...
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... pieces , " cannot fail to be most acceptable to the readers of Current Notes . THE SHAKSPERE SOCIETY . MR . WILLIS , -Can any of your Correspondents give as good an account of the Shakspere Society as you have done of the Percy in the ...
... pieces , " cannot fail to be most acceptable to the readers of Current Notes . THE SHAKSPERE SOCIETY . MR . WILLIS , -Can any of your Correspondents give as good an account of the Shakspere Society as you have done of the Percy in the ...
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... piece of a mill - stone upon Abimelech's In the same collection is another Token issued by head , and all to break his skull . ' Some commentators wish to render this the upper stone of a hand mill . If the Hebrew text allow this , it ...
... piece of a mill - stone upon Abimelech's In the same collection is another Token issued by head , and all to break his skull . ' Some commentators wish to render this the upper stone of a hand mill . If the Hebrew text allow this , it ...
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Page 59 - Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began...
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 that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
Page 77 - Even such is Time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days : And from which earth, and grave, and dust, The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
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 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 80 - I'll borrow. Wake from thy nest, robin-redbreast, Sing, birds, in every furrow ; And from each bill, let music shrill Give my fair Love good-morrow ! Blackbird and thrush in every bush, Stare, linnet, and cock-sparrow ! You pretty elves, amongst yourselves Sing my fair Love good-morrow ; To give my Love good-morrow Sing, birds, in every furrow...
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 15 - King! Long live our noble King! God save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us! God save the King!