The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character, Том 2W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1832 |
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... tion was of the following complicated character : What number has the following proportions , that if its cube is added to 5 times its square , and then 42 times the number , and the number 40 be EXTRAORDINARY CALCULATORS . subtracted ...
... tion was of the following complicated character : What number has the following proportions , that if its cube is added to 5 times its square , and then 42 times the number , and the number 40 be EXTRAORDINARY CALCULATORS . subtracted ...
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... tion ; for on this takes place the public procession of the Holy Sacrament of the Miracles . We had an opportunity of witnessing this locally celebrated affair on Sunday , July 15 , 1860 , and next day procured from one of the ...
... tion ; for on this takes place the public procession of the Holy Sacrament of the Miracles . We had an opportunity of witnessing this locally celebrated affair on Sunday , July 15 , 1860 , and next day procured from one of the ...
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... however , met with it in one parish , where Sunday funerals are the excep tion , and I recollect one instance in particular . A woman coming down from church , and observing an THE HOT WEDNESDAY OF 1808 . open grave , remarked. 52.
... however , met with it in one parish , where Sunday funerals are the excep tion , and I recollect one instance in particular . A woman coming down from church , and observing an THE HOT WEDNESDAY OF 1808 . open grave , remarked. 52.
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... tion to the choice of proper representatives in the next Parliament . - Becket , London . ' Most likely , this work would meet with but little encourage- ment in England , for the current of public feeling ran in the opposite direction ...
... tion to the choice of proper representatives in the next Parliament . - Becket , London . ' Most likely , this work would meet with but little encourage- ment in England , for the current of public feeling ran in the opposite direction ...
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... tion of Edward III . , among ' dishonest , trivial , and useless games , ' the sport increased in popularity Верты выуч with all classes . Erasmus , who visited England in the reign of Henry VIII , speaks of ' many herds ' of bears ...
... tion of Edward III . , among ' dishonest , trivial , and useless games , ' the sport increased in popularity Верты выуч with all classes . Erasmus , who visited England in the reign of Henry VIII , speaks of ' many herds ' of bears ...
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Стр. 284 - A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Стр. 173 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Стр. 299 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Стр. 219 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Стр. 234 - God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender! God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender. Who that pretender is, and who that king, God bless us all! is quite another thing.
Стр. 4 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Стр. 469 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die. who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid : as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground ; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Стр. 266 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Стр. 485 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Стр. 299 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...