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... received into the language : —The word unsuccess ' occurs more than once . The following ex- pression wants precision , The scepter of Scotland passed to the family of Stuart at an unfortunate period for the acceding progeny . Vol . i ...
... received into the language : —The word unsuccess ' occurs more than once . The following ex- pression wants precision , The scepter of Scotland passed to the family of Stuart at an unfortunate period for the acceding progeny . Vol . i ...
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... received , or utterly rejected , by every class of men . The astronomers alone favoured it with their notice , though rather as a convenient hy- pothesis than an important truth . By the vulgar it was con- sidered as a chimæra , belied ...
... received , or utterly rejected , by every class of men . The astronomers alone favoured it with their notice , though rather as a convenient hy- pothesis than an important truth . By the vulgar it was con- sidered as a chimæra , belied ...
Pagina 28
... received a fatal blow . He de- monstrated that the planets revolve in elliptical orbits , which no combination of Epicycles can describe ; and he pursued , with incredible perseverance , every figurate analogy that his exube- rant fancy ...
... received a fatal blow . He de- monstrated that the planets revolve in elliptical orbits , which no combination of Epicycles can describe ; and he pursued , with incredible perseverance , every figurate analogy that his exube- rant fancy ...
Pagina 59
... receiving this account of Caroline's des- tination , repairs with His brother John to the convent on the very day in which her noviciate expires . Father Arthur , after some pious scruples , relates to Caroline Stuart the death of ...
... receiving this account of Caroline's des- tination , repairs with His brother John to the convent on the very day in which her noviciate expires . Father Arthur , after some pious scruples , relates to Caroline Stuart the death of ...
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... received , but we met with fewer plantations as the river grew narrower . 6 On the 7th we continued our course , and having walked ashore on the estate Bockkestyne , being the last plantation up the river Cottica on the right , except ...
... received , but we met with fewer plantations as the river grew narrower . 6 On the 7th we continued our course , and having walked ashore on the estate Bockkestyne , being the last plantation up the river Cottica on the right , except ...
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Pagina 435 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Pagina 81 - An universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire," — this would doubtless have been noble writing.
Pagina 107 - I've let lodgings ten years ; I'ma baker to boot ; In airing your sheets, sir, my wife is no sloven ; And your bed is immediately over my oven." " The oven ! " says Will. Says the host, " Why this passion ? In that excellent bed died three people of fashion. Why so crusty, good sir...
Pagina 354 - ... containing also An Account of the Gradual Reformation, and Present Improved State, of the Penal Laws of Pennsylvania, with Observations on the Impolicy and Injustice of Capital Punishments. In a Letter to a Friend. By Robert J. Turnbull. ' ' Vitiorum f emina — otium — labore ex hauriendum.
Pagina 138 - His face, for an old man, was one of the finest we have seen. A clear, smooth forehead ; an aquiline nose ; an eye, the brightest and most piercing that can be conceived ; and a freshness of complexion, scarcely ever to be found at his years ; and, impressive of the most perfect health, conspired to render him a venerable and interesting figure.
Pagina 36 - A heedless wretch has cross'd the way ; He gasps, the thundering hoofs below ; — But, live who can, or die who may, Still, " Forward, forward !
Pagina 107 - I've enough of them there without paying for drugs ! ' Will kicked out the doctor ; but when ill indeed, e'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed ; so, calling his host, he said : ' Sir, do you know, I'm the fat single gentleman six months ago ? Look'e, landlord, I think...
Pagina 452 - So absolute indeed was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved by the puritans alone ; and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous and habits so ridiculous, that the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution.
Pagina 394 - And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us ; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Pagina 170 - Agrarian justice, opposed to agrarian law, and to agrarian monopoly. Being a plan for meliorating the condition of man. By creating in every nation, a national fund, to pay...