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... continued struggle with the Commons , without being worsted in the end ; the king cannot create fournées of Peers à la Français , without destroying the whole character and weight . of the Upper House ; the Commons cannot flatly refuse ...
... continued struggle with the Commons , without being worsted in the end ; the king cannot create fournées of Peers à la Français , without destroying the whole character and weight . of the Upper House ; the Commons cannot flatly refuse ...
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... continued , " like Gideon's fleece , the inviolate spot . " And it afterwards appeared , that upon some threats on the part of the neighbouring insurgents , that they would visit Abington and the glebe - house , the parishioners ...
... continued , " like Gideon's fleece , the inviolate spot . " And it afterwards appeared , that upon some threats on the part of the neighbouring insurgents , that they would visit Abington and the glebe - house , the parishioners ...
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... continued as strong and clear as ever . He set about cultivating the use of his left hand , with his characteristic decision , and in a few months , with that member he rivalled his beautiful right - hand penmanship - lithographic spe ...
... continued as strong and clear as ever . He set about cultivating the use of his left hand , with his characteristic decision , and in a few months , with that member he rivalled his beautiful right - hand penmanship - lithographic spe ...
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... continued deprivation of this necessary stimulus not only induced disease , but also was the cause of the production of mon- strosities . As regards electricity , we have sufficient data to demon- strate in the fullest manner that the ...
... continued deprivation of this necessary stimulus not only induced disease , but also was the cause of the production of mon- strosities . As regards electricity , we have sufficient data to demon- strate in the fullest manner that the ...
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... continued full living , apoplexy so frequently follows a surfeit at supper . " At the same time , a light repast before retiring to rest is allow- able or even requisite to dyspeptics , and almost every practitioner must have met with ...
... continued full living , apoplexy so frequently follows a surfeit at supper . " At the same time , a light repast before retiring to rest is allow- able or even requisite to dyspeptics , and almost every practitioner must have met with ...
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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...