The Quarterly Review, Volume 77William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1846 - English literature |
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... continued them regularly till the 25th of November , when the Court was interrupted by her accouchement . The Lady Keeper had a favourable recovery , and being churched , resumed her place in the Aula Regia . ' ' Soon after the ...
... continued them regularly till the 25th of November , when the Court was interrupted by her accouchement . The Lady Keeper had a favourable recovery , and being churched , resumed her place in the Aula Regia . ' ' Soon after the ...
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... continued in the office by the new Sovereign . Little is known respecting his origin or prior history . He is sup- posed to have been a mere clerk in the Chancery brought forward for a temporary purpose to play the part of Chancellor ...
... continued in the office by the new Sovereign . Little is known respecting his origin or prior history . He is sup- posed to have been a mere clerk in the Chancery brought forward for a temporary purpose to play the part of Chancellor ...
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... continued till the reign of George II .; and if we would find any- thing in the Digest of Chief Baron Comyn about Highways , or Tithes , or Husband and Wife , we must refer to the titles Chemin , Dismes , and Baron et Feme . Acts of ...
... continued till the reign of George II .; and if we would find any- thing in the Digest of Chief Baron Comyn about Highways , or Tithes , or Husband and Wife , we must refer to the titles Chemin , Dismes , and Baron et Feme . Acts of ...
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... continued ever since to sit separately for hearing causes in Chancery . The other three courts fell with their founder . ' Wolsey himself used still to attend pretty regularly in the Court of Chancery Chancery during term , and he ...
... continued ever since to sit separately for hearing causes in Chancery . The other three courts fell with their founder . ' Wolsey himself used still to attend pretty regularly in the Court of Chancery Chancery during term , and he ...
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... continued in free prison awhile , till the time that Sir Thomas More saw that he could not prevail in perverting of him to his sect . Then he cast him into prison in his own house , and whipped him at the tree in his garden called " the ...
... continued in free prison awhile , till the time that Sir Thomas More saw that he could not prevail in perverting of him to his sect . Then he cast him into prison in his own house , and whipped him at the tree in his garden called " the ...
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Page 386 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 411 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 249 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him ? But ye have despised the poor.
Page 254 - Search then the ruling passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest.
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Page 19 - I must put your Highness in remembrance of one thing; and that is this: The Pope, as your Grace knoweth, is a prince as you are, and in league with all other Christian princes. It may hereafter so fall out that your Grace and he may vary upon some points of the league; whereupon may grow breach of amity and war between you both. I think it best therefore that that place be amended, and his authority more slenderly touched.
Page 1 - ... the lives and characters of a long succession of influential magistrates and ministers, and the manly style of his narrative. We need hardly say that we shall expect with great interest the continuation of this performance.
Page 563 - THE possible destiny of the United States of America, — as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen, — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception.
Page 9 - And it came to pass when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished ; that Moses commanded the Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your GOD, that it may be there for a witness against thee.