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... appears to have been equally pro nounced Brict , Brit , and Brioth ; Breact , Breac , and Brig ; and is still retained in the Welsh Brith , and the Irish Breact , any thing divided or striped . " Brit is enlarged into Brit - on , or ...
... appears to have been equally pro nounced Brict , Brit , and Brioth ; Breact , Breac , and Brig ; and is still retained in the Welsh Brith , and the Irish Breact , any thing divided or striped . " Brit is enlarged into Brit - on , or ...
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... appears that Gaul was inhabited , at a very early period , by two branches of the Cimmerians , both of which nations often partook , in usual acceptation , of the specific term bestowed on each . These were the Cimbri , frequently ...
... appears that Gaul was inhabited , at a very early period , by two branches of the Cimmerians , both of which nations often partook , in usual acceptation , of the specific term bestowed on each . These were the Cimbri , frequently ...
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... appears that , if criminals were not at hand , 1 such of the innocent as were abject and unfriended , were sacri ficed without scruple . A recollection of this practice is desirable , as it is connected with those vestiges of Druidical ...
... appears that , if criminals were not at hand , 1 such of the innocent as were abject and unfriended , were sacri ficed without scruple . A recollection of this practice is desirable , as it is connected with those vestiges of Druidical ...
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... appears that the Belgæ intro- duced to our island a manufacture , essential to the comfort of man in a rude state ... appear that the Celtic chieftains had adopted the use of woollen vestures , when they first became known to the Romans ...
... appears that the Belgæ intro- duced to our island a manufacture , essential to the comfort of man in a rude state ... appear that the Celtic chieftains had adopted the use of woollen vestures , when they first became known to the Romans ...
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... appear that the islanders derived but few addi- tions to their comforts from their foreign commerce . It is cer tain ... appears that they often mixed au ex- traordinary quantity of lead with the primary metal . Irun , the most useful of ...
... appear that the islanders derived but few addi- tions to their comforts from their foreign commerce . It is cer tain ... appears that they often mixed au ex- traordinary quantity of lead with the primary metal . Irun , the most useful of ...
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Página 385 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt ; And most contemptible to shun contempt...
Página 388 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Página 296 - Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th...
Página 180 - midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.
Página 384 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Página 333 - ... elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear; Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
Página 48 - There be, that tell me, that there is a certain cunning fellow in Scotland, called George Monk, who is said to lie in wait there to introduce Charles Stuart : I pray you use your diligence to apprehend him, and send him up to me.
Página 389 - Honourable EDMUND BURKE, Who died on the 9th of July, 1797, aged 68 years. In the same grave are deposited the remains of his only son, Richard Burke, Esq., Representative in Parliament for the Borough of Malton. Who died the 2d of August, 1794, aged 35; And of his brother, Richard Burke, Barrister at Law, and Recorder of the city of Bristol, Who died on the 4th of February, 1794; And of his widow, Jane Mary Burke, Who died on the 2d of April, 1812, aged 78.
Página 391 - Poets, indeed, profess fiction ; but the legitimate end of fiction is the conveyance of truth ; and he that has flattery ready for all whom the vicissitudes of the world happen to exalt, must be scorned as a prostituted mind, that may retain the glitter of wit, but has lost the dignity of virtue.
Página 201 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.