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... prefent now , Have put us in thefe ill - befeeming arms . Shak . Lead back thy Saxons to their ancient Elbe : I would restore the fruitful Kent , the gift Of Vortigern , or Hengift's ill - bought aid , Dryd . We fimple toasters take ...
... prefent now , Have put us in thefe ill - befeeming arms . Shak . Lead back thy Saxons to their ancient Elbe : I would restore the fruitful Kent , the gift Of Vortigern , or Hengift's ill - bought aid , Dryd . We fimple toasters take ...
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... prefent at the death of that hero ? After the introduction of printing , this elegant art of illuminating gradually declined , and at length was quite neglected . On the whole , it is proper to obferve , that from the sth to the roth ...
... prefent at the death of that hero ? After the introduction of printing , this elegant art of illuminating gradually declined , and at length was quite neglected . On the whole , it is proper to obferve , that from the sth to the roth ...
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... prefent , or as if they were prefent : for I comprehend in this imagination feigned and at pleasure , as if one should imagine such a man to be in the vestments of a pope , or to have wings . Bacon . - Our fimple apprehenfion of ...
... prefent , or as if they were prefent : for I comprehend in this imagination feigned and at pleasure , as if one should imagine such a man to be in the vestments of a pope , or to have wings . Bacon . - Our fimple apprehenfion of ...
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... Prefent fears Are less than horrible imaginings . Shak . Mach . --What are our ideas of eternity and immenfity , but the repeated additions of certain ideas of ima- gined parts of duration and expansion , with the infinity of number ...
... Prefent fears Are less than horrible imaginings . Shak . Mach . --What are our ideas of eternity and immenfity , but the repeated additions of certain ideas of ima- gined parts of duration and expansion , with the infinity of number ...
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... church announce that it was formerly a large city ; but at prefent it is hardly a village . Solomon , the father of David , ordered the citadel to be de- deftroyed , C Epicarmus , as we learn from Horace , ( lib IM ME B I ( 17 )
... church announce that it was formerly a large city ; but at prefent it is hardly a village . Solomon , the father of David , ordered the citadel to be de- deftroyed , C Epicarmus , as we learn from Horace , ( lib IM ME B I ( 17 )
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Page 229 - Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold ; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould; And hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
Page 114 - ... even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the Holy See; and as far as the...
Page 243 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Page 47 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 170 - tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is that word, honour? air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? he that died o
Page 126 - Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.
Page 130 - ... first, those which are truly and properly his own suits, and filed ex officio by his own immediate officer, the attorney general : secondly, those in which, though the king is the nominal prosecutor, yet it is at the relation of some private person or common informer; and they are filed by the king's coroner and attorney in the court of king's bench, usually called the master of the crown-office, who is for this purpose the standing officer of the public.
Page 136 - By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients ; and from motions to the forces producing them ; and, in general, from effects to their causes ; and from particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general.
Page 139 - IV. A fourth rule, or canon of descents, is this ; that the lineal descendants, in ir\finituni, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living.
Page 170 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.