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... ment , vol . III . , the following paper was never before in print . But on collecting the Biographi- cal Sketches in the present form , the author could not abandon the claim , so kindly permitted him , to add this to the number . He ...
... ment , vol . III . , the following paper was never before in print . But on collecting the Biographi- cal Sketches in the present form , the author could not abandon the claim , so kindly permitted him , to add this to the number . He ...
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... ment , in which he sat in the hottest days of summer wrapped in his red roquelaure , surrounded with all the apparatus of sickness ; she was expected to ac- company him in his airings , on the dusty turnpike roads , with just enough of ...
... ment , in which he sat in the hottest days of summer wrapped in his red roquelaure , surrounded with all the apparatus of sickness ; she was expected to ac- company him in his airings , on the dusty turnpike roads , with just enough of ...
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... ment of the wife was ( as to immediate power ) com- pletely nugatory ; so that the entire power over the property fell into the hands least fit to be intrusted with it . Endless disputes arose among the parties interested , or rather ...
... ment of the wife was ( as to immediate power ) com- pletely nugatory ; so that the entire power over the property fell into the hands least fit to be intrusted with it . Endless disputes arose among the parties interested , or rather ...
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... ment , and meantime lived in good estate and favour . " Even so , " said Douglas , " we being unprovided for war , gain by this treaty ten years of peace ; during which King Henry , or his son , or the Queen , may die , or the parties ...
... ment , and meantime lived in good estate and favour . " Even so , " said Douglas , " we being unprovided for war , gain by this treaty ten years of peace ; during which King Henry , or his son , or the Queen , may die , or the parties ...
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... ment occupies 25 sheets . For this abstract of its contents , I am indebted to Thomas Sharpe , Esq . of Coventry . Other grants to Sir Ralph Sadler are mentioned in Dugdale's " Warwickshire , " Dr Thomas's edition , pages 186 , 300 ...
... ment occupies 25 sheets . For this abstract of its contents , I am indebted to Thomas Sharpe , Esq . of Coventry . Other grants to Sir Ralph Sadler are mentioned in Dugdale's " Warwickshire , " Dr Thomas's edition , pages 186 , 300 ...
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Strona 256 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Strona 356 - I saw him again yesterday, and was surprised to find the levee-room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This Sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping bits of German news; he walks about, and speaks to everybody. I saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity, and reads his answers to addresses well...
Strona 256 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Strona 428 - For then he was inspired, and from him came, As from the Pythian's mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more...
Strona 408 - A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The boy was sprung to manhood : in the wilds Of fiery climes he made himself a home, And his soul drank their sunbeams ; he was girt With strange and dusky aspects ; he was not Himself like what he had been : on the sea And on the shore he was a wanderer ! There was a mass of many image?
Strona 323 - ... her own mouth. I should have told you before that Mrs. Veal told Mrs. Bargrave that her sister and brother-in-law were just come down from London to see her. Says Mrs. Bargrave, "How came you to order matters so strangely?" "It could not be helped,
Strona 426 - Or friends by him self-banish'd ; for his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary, and chose For its own cruel sacrifice, the kind, 'Gainst whom he raged with fury strange and blind.
Strona 323 - This Mrs. Watson blazed all about the town, and avouched the demonstration of the truth of Mrs. Bargrave's seeing Mrs. Veal's apparition; and Captain Watson carried two gentlemen immediately to Mrs. Bargrave's house to hear the relation from her own mouth. And...
Strona 323 - A servant in a neighbour's yard adjoining to Mrs. Bargrave's house heard her talking to somebody an hour of the time Mrs. Veal was with her. Mrs. Bargrave went out to her next neighbour's the very moment she parted with Mrs.
Strona 322 - Watson's before she went whither she was .going. Then she said she would take her leave of her; and walked from Mrs. Bargrave in her view, till a turning interrupted the sight of her, which was three quarters after one in the afternoon. Mrs. Veal died the 7th of September, at twelve o'clock at noon, of her fits, and had not above four hours' senses before her death, in which time she received the sacrament.