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... considered with relation to the Principles of Dietetics . By Andrew Combe , M.D. 348 VII . - Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland , and of the Isle of Man . By Lord Teignmouth .... VIII . The History of Banking in Ireland . By ...
... considered with relation to the Principles of Dietetics . By Andrew Combe , M.D. 348 VII . - Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland , and of the Isle of Man . By Lord Teignmouth .... VIII . The History of Banking in Ireland . By ...
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... considered as illustrative of the author's generous and ten- der sympathies , and his elegant pathos , or descriptive of the un- paralleled wretchedness of the poor Irish , would be sufficient to confer on these volumes - though from ...
... considered as illustrative of the author's generous and ten- der sympathies , and his elegant pathos , or descriptive of the un- paralleled wretchedness of the poor Irish , would be sufficient to confer on these volumes - though from ...
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... considered , this infirmity of tem- per ought to be matter of regret to the public , whatever it may be to himself . It is certain that the most splendid of his oratorical efforts , in both Houses of Parliament , have been made when ...
... considered , this infirmity of tem- per ought to be matter of regret to the public , whatever it may be to himself . It is certain that the most splendid of his oratorical efforts , in both Houses of Parliament , have been made when ...
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... considered adequate by himself ; for that return , we are confident , will be reform in the Museum . Mr. Edwards examined the catalogues of the library last Octo- ber ; and as examples of deficiency , taking the works at random , he ...
... considered adequate by himself ; for that return , we are confident , will be reform in the Museum . Mr. Edwards examined the catalogues of the library last Octo- ber ; and as examples of deficiency , taking the works at random , he ...
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... considered indispensable ? -I do not know that a classed catalogue is indispensable ; an alphabetical one is ; an alphabetical one is referred to five hundred times , where a classed catalogue is referred to once . " And where an ...
... considered indispensable ? -I do not know that a classed catalogue is indispensable ; an alphabetical one is ; an alphabetical one is referred to five hundred times , where a classed catalogue is referred to once . " And where an ...
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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...