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... burial , passed by this house of affliction ; and the customary cry , -- " Bring out your dead , " --- summoned the ... buried them in her gar- den . She afterwards sickened herself , and encountered all the horrors of pestilence ...
... burial , passed by this house of affliction ; and the customary cry , -- " Bring out your dead , " --- summoned the ... buried them in her gar- den . She afterwards sickened herself , and encountered all the horrors of pestilence ...
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... buried . Her width at the floor heads is sixteen feet . She is clinker built , like a cutter ; and , from the appearance of those parts which can be seen , she would measure at least one hundred tons . The timbers are perfectly sound ...
... buried . Her width at the floor heads is sixteen feet . She is clinker built , like a cutter ; and , from the appearance of those parts which can be seen , she would measure at least one hundred tons . The timbers are perfectly sound ...
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... burial was prescribed by him , to prevent his wife from dancing over his grave ; which had been the lady's frequent threat , during paroxysms of matrimonial contention . * " The idea of making taste , and fanciful improvements , subser ...
... burial was prescribed by him , to prevent his wife from dancing over his grave ; which had been the lady's frequent threat , during paroxysms of matrimonial contention . * " The idea of making taste , and fanciful improvements , subser ...
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... buried on the north side of Boldre church - yard , near the maple tree , which he mentions in his Forest Scenery . His tomb bears this inscription : — " In a quiet mansion , beneath this stone , secured from the afflictions and still ...
... buried on the north side of Boldre church - yard , near the maple tree , which he mentions in his Forest Scenery . His tomb bears this inscription : — " In a quiet mansion , beneath this stone , secured from the afflictions and still ...
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... buried in this place of her choice . While she was constructing it , little did she anticipate the melancholy catastrophe that would bring her to the " house appointed for all living . ' Her history is very affecting . She had the ...
... buried in this place of her choice . While she was constructing it , little did she anticipate the melancholy catastrophe that would bring her to the " house appointed for all living . ' Her history is very affecting . She had the ...
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abbey afterwards ancient appears Beaulieu beautiful bishop of Winchester Bishop's Waltham Bittern Boldre Brockenhurst building built buried Bursledon called chancel chapel Charles Christchurch church consisted court Cromwell cross cultivated curious death died distant Domesday-book earl elegant erected extensive Fareham feet Forest Scenery formerly Gosport ground Hampshire Henry VIII hill History honour hundred Hursley Hurst Castle inscription isle of Wight Itchen king lady land late lodge Lord Lymington Lyndhurst manor mansion memory ment miles Milner's monastery monument Mottisfont navy neighbourhood neighbouring parish park parliament pass persons pleasing population Portsmouth present priory probably Redbridge reign residence Richard Richard Cromwell river river Itchen road Roman Romsey royal Saxon scene seen ship side situation Southampton Water spot stone Stony Cross Thomas timber tion Titchfield tower town trees village Whiteparish William wood
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Page 37 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.
Page 37 - As the waters fail from the sea, And the flood decayeth and drieth up : So man lieth down, and riseth not. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 36 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or...
Page 36 - Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
Page 36 - His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery , a circumnavigation of charity.
Page 174 - His meagre corpse, though full of vigour, Would halt behind him, were it bigger. So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you like an apparition. Shines in all climates like a star; In senates bold, and fierce in war; A land commander, and a tar : Heroic actions early bred in, Ne'er to be match'd in modern reading, But by his namesake Charles of Sweden.
Page 174 - A skeleton in outward figure ; His meagre corpse, though full of vigour, Would halt behind him, were it bigger. So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you like an apparition.
Page 205 - A SPEECH intended to have been spoken on the bill for altering the charters of the Colony of Massachusett's Bay.
Page 209 - And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Page 125 - ... their migration. Now and then, in calm weather, when mast falls sparingly, he calls them perhaps together by the music of his horn to a gratuitous meal ; but in general they need little attention, returning regularly home at night, though they often wander in the day two or three miles from their sty. There are experienced leaders in all herds, which have spent this roving life before, and can instruct their juniors in the method of it. By this management the herd is carried home to their respective...