The Etymological Compendium, Or, Portfolio of Origins and Inventions .. Containing a Particular Account of London and Its Public Buildings ...T. Tegg, 1830 - 356 Seiten |
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... lived A. D. 294. In this distinguished person were united the philosopher and the chris- tian . Born of a very eminent family , and large fortune , he might have aspired to the highest honours of this world ; but , on the con- trary ...
... lived A. D. 294. In this distinguished person were united the philosopher and the chris- tian . Born of a very eminent family , and large fortune , he might have aspired to the highest honours of this world ; but , on the con- trary ...
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... lived some time at Rome with cardinal Pole , published the first map that ever was drawn of this island . It was published , 1539 , twenty years be- fore his death . COMMENCEMENT OF THE BIBLE HISTORY . The Bible history commenced 430 ...
... lived some time at Rome with cardinal Pole , published the first map that ever was drawn of this island . It was published , 1539 , twenty years be- fore his death . COMMENCEMENT OF THE BIBLE HISTORY . The Bible history commenced 430 ...
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... lived in an age when books were considered as a luxury , and not a necessary of life . The case is now altered ; and though , perhaps , as Doctor Johnson observed , no man gets a belly - full of knowledge , " every one has a mouthful ...
... lived in an age when books were considered as a luxury , and not a necessary of life . The case is now altered ; and though , perhaps , as Doctor Johnson observed , no man gets a belly - full of knowledge , " every one has a mouthful ...
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... lived in the eleventh century , a passage plainly mentioning the mixture of all kinds of colours with oil , for the purpose of painting wood - work . One author , however , contends , that Theophilus had no other idea than that of ...
... lived in the eleventh century , a passage plainly mentioning the mixture of all kinds of colours with oil , for the purpose of painting wood - work . One author , however , contends , that Theophilus had no other idea than that of ...
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... lived together as friends and equals , and , to use the words of a late inge- nious writer - Sous leurs heureuses mains le cuivre devient or ; - ' Under their hands copper became gold . ' The works of those en- gravers , which are now ...
... lived together as friends and equals , and , to use the words of a late inge- nious writer - Sous leurs heureuses mains le cuivre devient or ; - ' Under their hands copper became gold . ' The works of those en- gravers , which are now ...
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Seite 169 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
Seite 152 - The insurance offices one and all shut up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world. Thus this custom of firing houses continued...
Seite 320 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Seite 89 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — ('Treason,' cried the speaker — ' treason, treason/ echoed from every part of the house.
Seite 324 - Oh, what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame, I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart : I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
Seite 73 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land.
Seite 8 - When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Seite 120 - Third to steal a hawk. To take its eggs even in a person's own ground, was punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, together with a fine at the king's pleasure. In...
Seite 46 - I seem to remember having been told, that a bad sweep was once left in a stack with his brush, to indicate which way the wind blew. It was an awful spectacle certainly ; not much unlike the old stage direction in Macbeth, where the " Apparition of a child crowned with a tree in his hand rises.
Seite 60 - I have been up all night (replied the old bard) ; my musical friends made me promise to write them an ode for their Feast of St. Cecilia : I have been so struck with the subject which occurred to me, that I could not leave it till I had completed it ; here it is finished at one sitting.