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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... seen in Willis's Current Notes of this month , your note about the sign of the inn at Yeovil , I am satisfied you are on the wrong scent . The true origin , I doubt not , must have been the adjacent church having been anciently ...
... seen in Willis's Current Notes of this month , your note about the sign of the inn at Yeovil , I am satisfied you are on the wrong scent . The true origin , I doubt not , must have been the adjacent church having been anciently ...
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... seen ad- vancing towards them , the pirate by means of their oars , baffled every manoeuvre made by the sailing vessel to avoid a rencontre , and was soon within cannon shot . Vaillant , in extreme anxiety for the twenty gold coins ...
... seen ad- vancing towards them , the pirate by means of their oars , baffled every manoeuvre made by the sailing vessel to avoid a rencontre , and was soon within cannon shot . Vaillant , in extreme anxiety for the twenty gold coins ...
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... seen . What a poem ! -- such bald and nerveless language , mean ima- gery , common - place sentiments , and clumsy versification ! It is beneath criticism . Unless the latter part of the battle be very fine indeed , this poem will ...
... seen . What a poem ! -- such bald and nerveless language , mean ima- gery , common - place sentiments , and clumsy versification ! It is beneath criticism . Unless the latter part of the battle be very fine indeed , this poem will ...
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... seen a woman ducked for scolding , near the West Bridge , about eighty years since . He also states , that he had formerly seen another Cucking - stool at the xijd . Town Hall , that he describes as a kind of chair without ijd . legs ...
... seen a woman ducked for scolding , near the West Bridge , about eighty years since . He also states , that he had formerly seen another Cucking - stool at the xijd . Town Hall , that he describes as a kind of chair without ijd . legs ...
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... seen any account of the circum- stances elsewhere , possibly some of your correspondents may throw some light as to its probability . Alas , poor Yorick ! Tottenham . B. G. W. Sterne died on Friday , March 18 , 1768. He was buried at ...
... seen any account of the circum- stances elsewhere , possibly some of your correspondents may throw some light as to its probability . Alas , poor Yorick ! Tottenham . B. G. W. Sterne died on Friday , March 18 , 1768. He was buried at ...
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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.