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... word for word with the German . Hares . Besides the ancient superstition at- tached to the crossing of the path by one of these animals , there is also a belief that the running of one along the street or mainway of a village , por ...
... word for word with the German . Hares . Besides the ancient superstition at- tached to the crossing of the path by one of these animals , there is also a belief that the running of one along the street or mainway of a village , por ...
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... words , " Eynt bre vic . , " with another word following the last which is scarcely decypherable ; and to the other the word " Elgyn " seems to have reference ; such word being placed upon the ample sleeve of his gown 6 [ No. 62 . NOTES ...
... words , " Eynt bre vic . , " with another word following the last which is scarcely decypherable ; and to the other the word " Elgyn " seems to have reference ; such word being placed upon the ample sleeve of his gown 6 [ No. 62 . NOTES ...
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... word modern , instead of moderate , in my editions of Shakspeare , is a printer's error , which shall be corrected in the edition I am now publishing . To a person unfamiliar with printing , it might appear impossible that any ...
... word modern , instead of moderate , in my editions of Shakspeare , is a printer's error , which shall be corrected in the edition I am now publishing . To a person unfamiliar with printing , it might appear impossible that any ...
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... word for water ? There are , I know , two sets of Welsh numerals , of which the later contains many Greek words , but the older Though we do not generally notice the publication are entirely different . Is not cader akin to kabédpa , of ...
... word for water ? There are , I know , two sets of Welsh numerals , of which the later contains many Greek words , but the older Though we do not generally notice the publication are entirely different . Is not cader akin to kabédpa , of ...
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... Word - Passage in Bishop Butler Wat the Hare The Letter g - Did Elizabeth visit Bacon in Twickenham Park Mock - Beggar - Cardinal Chalmers - Binsey , God help me ! - Mid- wives Licensed - Dr. Timothy Thristcross - History of the ...
... Word - Passage in Bishop Butler Wat the Hare The Letter g - Did Elizabeth visit Bacon in Twickenham Park Mock - Beggar - Cardinal Chalmers - Binsey , God help me ! - Mid- wives Licensed - Dr. Timothy Thristcross - History of the ...
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ancient ANTIQUARIES appears ballad Bible Bishop British Museum C. H. COOPER called Catalogue century Charles Chaucer Church City of London collection contains copy correspondent curious daughter doubt Duke Earl edition Edmund Prideaux Edward England English engraved father Fleet Street folio France French GEORGE BELL George Steevens give Henry Henry VIII History honour illustrated inscription interesting James JANUS DOUSA King Knight Lady late Latin letter lines literary London Lord means Memoirs mentioned Minor Queries monument morocco Museum NOTES AND QUERIES notice ODD VOLUMES WANTED Old Compton Street original Oxford parish passage perhaps poem poet Pope portrait possession present printed probably publication published Queen readers reference remarkable Richard Rolliad Roman Royal says Shakspeare Society Thomas tion Tradescant translation verses William word writer written
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Page 55 - It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Page 55 - And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know ? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven ? 43 Jesus therefore answered, and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
Page 333 - If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Page 57 - twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle. To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew. To see thee, hear thee, call thee mine, — Oh, misery! must I lose that too? Yet go — on peril's brink we meet ; — Those frightful rocks — that treacherous sea — No, never come again — though sweet, Though heaven, it may be death to thee.
Page 414 - Almighty Lord, who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do bow and obey...
Page 150 - And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. 39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Page 333 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 167 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 315 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Page 142 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.