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... manner this intimation , real or * In an interesting paper on " Old Superstitions . " Cuthbert Bede , in the Illustrated London Magazine for 1855 , refers to this story , and remarks : " There is a superstition which has gained credit ...
... manner this intimation , real or * In an interesting paper on " Old Superstitions . " Cuthbert Bede , in the Illustrated London Magazine for 1855 , refers to this story , and remarks : " There is a superstition which has gained credit ...
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... manner of his death was related to me by William Stuckey , in the presence of Mr. Fortescue and Captain Wolseley - Stuckey being the servant who attended him in his bed- chamber , and in whose arms he died . " This narrative is signed ...
... manner of his death was related to me by William Stuckey , in the presence of Mr. Fortescue and Captain Wolseley - Stuckey being the servant who attended him in his bed- chamber , and in whose arms he died . " This narrative is signed ...
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... manners makyth man . " Probably his father's fussy supervision of his hopeful son's education was intended to make him not merely a strong Whig in politics , but a Presbyterian in religion . 30 TALES OF OUR GREAT FAMILIES .
... manners makyth man . " Probably his father's fussy supervision of his hopeful son's education was intended to make him not merely a strong Whig in politics , but a Presbyterian in religion . 30 TALES OF OUR GREAT FAMILIES .
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... manner in which one of themselves would have been interred . He appears , by all accounts , to have made a very penitent and Christian end . Horace Walpole says of the death of the Duke , that the only account of it which he had seen ...
... manner in which one of themselves would have been interred . He appears , by all accounts , to have made a very penitent and Christian end . Horace Walpole says of the death of the Duke , that the only account of it which he had seen ...
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... manners and propriety of language , quoting from the earlier pages of Roman history an instance of a great man and a patriot who had a son so profligate that he tried to betray the liberties of the re- public , on which account his ...
... manners and propriety of language , quoting from the earlier pages of Roman history an instance of a great man and a patriot who had a son so profligate that he tried to betray the liberties of the re- public , on which account his ...
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Página 226 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Página 247 - After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb: "What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Página 26 - 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 108 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.
Página 27 - His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Página 51 - Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...