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... tercourse . But the man of business passed into the man of letters for , while amid the former , he found time to make considerable ad- ; vances in his favourite studies , viz . those of 2 Raumer's England in 1835 . Page Page Page.
... tercourse . But the man of business passed into the man of letters for , while amid the former , he found time to make considerable ad- ; vances in his favourite studies , viz . those of 2 Raumer's England in 1835 . Page Page Page.
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... considerable portion of England , and found the country , though by no means so picturesque , fantastic , or sublime , as many parts of Germany , Switzerland , and Italy , yet in the highest degree agreeable , and in some parts ...
... considerable portion of England , and found the country , though by no means so picturesque , fantastic , or sublime , as many parts of Germany , Switzerland , and Italy , yet in the highest degree agreeable , and in some parts ...
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... consists of a sort of sack of wool , firmly stuffed , and covered over with crimson cloth . Such a seat cannot be a very comfortable one , either in hot weather , or when occupied for any considerable length of time :
... consists of a sort of sack of wool , firmly stuffed , and covered over with crimson cloth . Such a seat cannot be a very comfortable one , either in hot weather , or when occupied for any considerable length of time :
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... considerable apprenticeship in the Lower House , or of long experience as hereditary legislators ; and who in this way become perhaps an indispensable branch of the legislature . At any rate , from the different sort of ingredients ...
... considerable apprenticeship in the Lower House , or of long experience as hereditary legislators ; and who in this way become perhaps an indispensable branch of the legislature . At any rate , from the different sort of ingredients ...
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... considerable merit , courting also and maintaining the companionship of a few literary and accomplished contemporaries , some of whom have risen to dis- tinction . In the summer of 1796 , for the first time Jebb visited England , on a ...
... considerable merit , courting also and maintaining the companionship of a few literary and accomplished contemporaries , some of whom have risen to dis- tinction . In the summer of 1796 , for the first time Jebb visited England , on a ...
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Page 344 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 344 - Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven ; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 85 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 335 - And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them ; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau ; for the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 579 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. All. Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 3 Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf : Witches...
Page 434 - Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. It is a little thing to speak a phrase Of common comfort which by daily use Has almost lost its sense ; yet on the ear Of him who thought to die unmourned 'twill fall Like choicest music...
Page 85 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 287 - Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
Page 344 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 85 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...