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... possession of Earl Godwyne , and by a great inundation of the sea , they weare taken therfroe , at which tyme also much harme was done in Scotland and Flanders , by the same rage of the water . ' At the period of the Conquest by William ...
... possession of Earl Godwyne , and by a great inundation of the sea , they weare taken therfroe , at which tyme also much harme was done in Scotland and Flanders , by the same rage of the water . ' At the period of the Conquest by William ...
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... possession of Mesopotamia , and had advanced into Syria . Antioch , which was threatened by them , was relieved by G. , the Persians were obliged to withdraw from Syria beyond the Euphrates , and G. was just about to march into their ...
... possession of Mesopotamia , and had advanced into Syria . Antioch , which was threatened by them , was relieved by G. , the Persians were obliged to withdraw from Syria beyond the Euphrates , and G. was just about to march into their ...
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... possession of considerable landed property . He was a personal friend of Chaucer's , who addresses him as ' a moral Gower ' in dedi- cating to him his Troilus and Cressida - an epithet which has indissolubly linked itself to his name ...
... possession of considerable landed property . He was a personal friend of Chaucer's , who addresses him as ' a moral Gower ' in dedi- cating to him his Troilus and Cressida - an epithet which has indissolubly linked itself to his name ...
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... possessed a deep love for nature , and those passages in his poems are the best that give utterance to that love ... possession . This drug is much used to give apparent strength to bad gin . The name Meleguetta Pepper , or Guinea ...
... possessed a deep love for nature , and those passages in his poems are the best that give utterance to that love ... possession . This drug is much used to give apparent strength to bad gin . The name Meleguetta Pepper , or Guinea ...
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... possession of the lands in satisfaction of her GRAND MASTER - GRAND RIVER . competent to swear a. dower . GRAND ... possessed of land , her husband was entitled to hold the lands , but only while he remained a widower . By the Courtesy of ...
... possession of the lands in satisfaction of her GRAND MASTER - GRAND RIVER . competent to swear a. dower . GRAND ... possessed of land , her husband was entitled to hold the lands , but only while he remained a widower . By the Courtesy of ...
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Page 111 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 39 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 362 - But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.
Page 55 - Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them...
Page 183 - He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of the Astronomical Society of London: He was the author of various articles in the scientific journals of the day, and in the Encyclopadia liritannica.
Page 249 - For more than forty years," was his remark to Sir James, — "for more than forty years I have so ruled my life that when death came I might face it without fear.
Page 17 - Hebrews published a Gospel in their own language ; while Peter and Paul were preaching the Gospel at Rome and founding a church there. And after their departure, Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, himself...
Page 302 - Fig. 36. growing complexity of shields arose from augmentations granted to distinguish the younger branches of a family, or charges assumed from the maternal coat by the descendants of an heiress.
Page 143 - My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man hath concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
Page 56 - GRAY, THOMAS, an English poet, was born in London on the 26th December 1716. His father, Philip Gray, a money-scrivener, was of a disposition so violent, that his wife was obliged to separate from him ; and it was mainly through her exertions that her son was placed at Eton, and afterwards at Cambridge. At Eton, he made the acquaintance of Horace Walpole, the son of the prime minister ; and when his college education was completed, he accompanied his friend on a tour through France and Italy. After...