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... England a cen- tury earlier , might have been spoken of as " pretending to be Sir Roger Tichborne " without the slightest intimation on the part of the speaker that the story was not believed . In the third part of King Henry Sixth ...
... England a cen- tury earlier , might have been spoken of as " pretending to be Sir Roger Tichborne " without the slightest intimation on the part of the speaker that the story was not believed . In the third part of King Henry Sixth ...
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... England who attended to the sequestration of estates that were forfeited to the crown , and the corrupt practices of these men led it to be commonly believed that to cheat " a man was to deprive him of his property unfairly which ...
... England who attended to the sequestration of estates that were forfeited to the crown , and the corrupt practices of these men led it to be commonly believed that to cheat " a man was to deprive him of his property unfairly which ...
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... England to the West , gave her unrivaled commercial facilities . The fur trade , which , for a cen- tury , had been the chief reliance of Albany , had , indeed , nearly ceased , or been diverted into other channels . But , instead of it ...
... England to the West , gave her unrivaled commercial facilities . The fur trade , which , for a cen- tury , had been the chief reliance of Albany , had , indeed , nearly ceased , or been diverted into other channels . But , instead of it ...
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... England . And in the Connecticut Assembly when it grew too dark to attend to business , Abraham Dav- enport moved that candles be brought in and that they go on with the debate irrespective of the day of judgment . The incident reminds ...
... England . And in the Connecticut Assembly when it grew too dark to attend to business , Abraham Dav- enport moved that candles be brought in and that they go on with the debate irrespective of the day of judgment . The incident reminds ...
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... England than Holland . On one side of the hall was the parlor , a large square room , with plenty of light let in through the narrow panes of glass with which fashion is making us again familiar . A great fire - place occupied one side ...
... England than Holland . On one side of the hall was the parlor , a large square room , with plenty of light let in through the narrow panes of glass with which fashion is making us again familiar . A great fire - place occupied one side ...
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Page 204 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 284 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; And all the clouds, that lower'd upon our house, In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Page 294 - ... the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of...
Page 294 - ... to establish a defense on the ground of insanity it must be clearly proved that at the time of the committing of the act the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 260 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 56 - And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me, by and by, in a charger, the head of John the Baptist.
Page 120 - What need you study for new subjects, Purposely to abuse your betters ? Why could not you be contented, As well as others, With the Legend of Whittington, Or the life and death of Sir Thomas Gresham ? With the building of the Royal Exchange ? Or the storie of Queen Elenor, With the rearing of London bridge upon Woollsacks ? Pro.
Page 261 - An idea, strange as it is visionary, has entered into the minds of the generality of mankind, that empire is travelling westward; and every one is looking forward with eager and impatient expectation to that destined moment when America is to give law to the rest of the world.
Page 83 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 58 - Fossil occurring free in the shales, or upon other fossil bodies, in slender branching fronds. Branches diverging, lax and slender, with numerous branchlets, both marked by numerous cellules which are usually indicated by the appearance of abrupt expansion and contraction of the branches.