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... She still continues to cultivate and encourage the arts and fciences ; to make her empire an afylum to the learned and in- genious ; and to reform the man- ners , and inftruct the minds of the people , through the extent of its moft ...
... She still continues to cultivate and encourage the arts and fciences ; to make her empire an afylum to the learned and in- genious ; and to reform the man- ners , and inftruct the minds of the people , through the extent of its moft ...
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... she has afpired to , fince by the extinction of the Jagellonic line , in the perfon of Sigifmund Anno Auguftus , he has affum- 1572 . ed the form of a republic , and made the crown entirely elec- tive . Under the kings of the Ja ...
... she has afpired to , fince by the extinction of the Jagellonic line , in the perfon of Sigifmund Anno Auguftus , he has affum- 1572 . ed the form of a republic , and made the crown entirely elec- tive . Under the kings of the Ja ...
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... she became a frightful skeleton , and when he was fo far reduced that her ftomach loathed food , he released her , let loofe her hands , and fet coarse meat before her , and tempted her with tender words to . eat , with a view to fcreen ...
... she became a frightful skeleton , and when he was fo far reduced that her ftomach loathed food , he released her , let loofe her hands , and fet coarse meat before her , and tempted her with tender words to . eat , with a view to fcreen ...
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... She had three farthings in her pocket , a bit of bread and cheese , and a rusty thimble . This day the king of zoth . Naples , who has attained his majority , made his public entry , and went to the metropolitan church , where Te Deum ...
... She had three farthings in her pocket , a bit of bread and cheese , and a rusty thimble . This day the king of zoth . Naples , who has attained his majority , made his public entry , and went to the metropolitan church , where Te Deum ...
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... She is committed to Durham gaol , ment ; fhe faid he was bitter but is faid to be out of her rea- cold ; but her fituation fo fhocked fon . her , that he did not furvive above a day or two , Jo . Story , a blacksmith at Bel- ford ...
... She is committed to Durham gaol , ment ; fhe faid he was bitter but is faid to be out of her rea- cold ; but her fituation fo fhocked fon . her , that he did not furvive above a day or two , Jo . Story , a blacksmith at Bel- ford ...
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Page 217 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY.
Page 264 - 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 264 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 132 - Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Page 261 - ... strictly speaking) there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land...
Page 276 - ... openly and humbly kneeling, being ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands both together between those of the lord, who...
Page 274 - that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services.
Page 71 - His Majefty went to the Houfe of Peers, and gave the royal aflent to the following bills, viz. The bill for puniihing mutiny and defertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.
Page 261 - ... from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so before him ; or why the occupier of a particular field or of a jewel, when lying on his death-bed, and no longer able to maintain possession, should be entitled to tell the rest of the world which of them should enjoy it after him.
Page 265 - ... by giving it opportunities of improving its rational faculties, as well as of exerting its natural.