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... occurs in the ballad of the ' Battle of Otterbourne , ' where the Douglas says O bury me by the bracken bush , Beneath the blooming brier , Let never living mortal ken That ere a kindly Scot lies here . Scott , ' Border Min . , ' ed ...
... occurs in the ballad of the ' Battle of Otterbourne , ' where the Douglas says O bury me by the bracken bush , Beneath the blooming brier , Let never living mortal ken That ere a kindly Scot lies here . Scott , ' Border Min . , ' ed ...
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... occurs , being that of the wife of Robert , son of Benedict de Hamstede , and among the witnesses to the same document is Robert le Engyniur , which I presume is equivalent to Robert the Engineer ; but I should like to know what an ...
... occurs , being that of the wife of Robert , son of Benedict de Hamstede , and among the witnesses to the same document is Robert le Engyniur , which I presume is equivalent to Robert the Engineer ; but I should like to know what an ...
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... occurs to me . Once , in a strange place , and in somewhat peculiar and trying circum- stances , I was along with a friend whose Gaelic idiom still troubled him . We sadly needed a place of refuge and entertainment , and when at the end ...
... occurs to me . Once , in a strange place , and in somewhat peculiar and trying circum- stances , I was along with a friend whose Gaelic idiom still troubled him . We sadly needed a place of refuge and entertainment , and when at the end ...
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... occurs in the manuscript and printed literature of the time . EDWARD PEACOCK , ROLLING A BALL DOWN THE TABLE AFTER DINNER ( 7th S. vi . 489 ) . Your correspondent's second instance seems a relic of the ancient days when the ball was the ...
... occurs in the manuscript and printed literature of the time . EDWARD PEACOCK , ROLLING A BALL DOWN THE TABLE AFTER DINNER ( 7th S. vi . 489 ) . Your correspondent's second instance seems a relic of the ancient days when the ball was the ...
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... occurs : - " The gownsmen looked , smiled , and passed on ; the snobs stood still and grinned . " A note at the bottom of the page runs as follows : - " For the benefit of the unsophisticated reader , a snob is , at Cambridge ...
... occurs : - " The gownsmen looked , smiled , and passed on ; the snobs stood still and grinned . " A note at the bottom of the page runs as follows : - " For the benefit of the unsophisticated reader , a snob is , at Cambridge ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 99 - Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 270 - Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Seite 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?
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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!