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... Early English Text Society , which is including in its extra series The Promptorium Parvulorum , ' edited from the manuscript in the Chapter Library the first English - Latin Dictionary , c . 1440 A.D. , at Winchester , with ...
... Early English Text Society , which is including in its extra series The Promptorium Parvulorum , ' edited from the manuscript in the Chapter Library the first English - Latin Dictionary , c . 1440 A.D. , at Winchester , with ...
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... early in the eighteenth century . The passage in ' The Adventuress ' is Jack Spavin bolted an old apple - woman into the parcel - post at Cripplegate , ' and the context shows it was the act of a reckless horseman , who in his wild ...
... early in the eighteenth century . The passage in ' The Adventuress ' is Jack Spavin bolted an old apple - woman into the parcel - post at Cripplegate , ' and the context shows it was the act of a reckless horseman , who in his wild ...
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... EARLY PRINTED BOOKS , PAINTED and ILLUMINATED MANU- SCRIPTS , RARE BINDINGS , EMBLEM BOOKS , HERBALS , RARE EDITIONS of MILTON , and including the FIRST FOUR FOLIO EDITIONS of SHAKESPEARE . PART I. ( A - F ) READY . PART II . ( F - M ) ...
... EARLY PRINTED BOOKS , PAINTED and ILLUMINATED MANU- SCRIPTS , RARE BINDINGS , EMBLEM BOOKS , HERBALS , RARE EDITIONS of MILTON , and including the FIRST FOUR FOLIO EDITIONS of SHAKESPEARE . PART I. ( A - F ) READY . PART II . ( F - M ) ...
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... early age of four : teen years to Philadelphia , for the purpose of being brought up to mercantile pursuits , where I arrived in the month of April , 1766. ” Thus William Patterson's father was William ( not John ) ; his " family were ...
... early age of four : teen years to Philadelphia , for the purpose of being brought up to mercantile pursuits , where I arrived in the month of April , 1766. ” Thus William Patterson's father was William ( not John ) ; his " family were ...
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... early sixties with the accounts he wrote to his wife of the goings - on in which he took part in December , 1847 , at Fingask , in the house of his friends the Thrieplands- death . " We carry on very merrily . Last night there was ...
... early sixties with the accounts he wrote to his wife of the goings - on in which he took part in December , 1847 , at Fingask , in the house of his friends the Thrieplands- death . " We carry on very merrily . Last night there was ...
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Página 341 - Who is on my side? who?" And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses : and he trode her under foot.
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Página 197 - Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him.
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Página 290 - Caesar should be a beast without a heart If he should stay at home to-day for fear. No, Caesar shall not: danger knows full well That Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions littered in one day, And I the elder and more terrible: — And Caesar shall go forth.
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