Notabilia: Or, Curious and Amusing Facts about Many Things, Explained and IllustratedGriffith and Farran, 1872 - 384 páginas |
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... appear to have ever had an existence : as little can we believe in an etymological definition from the ancient Scythia or Siberia , or that it was ever the name of a horde of savages in any part of the world . " The following lines from ...
... appear to have ever had an existence : as little can we believe in an etymological definition from the ancient Scythia or Siberia , or that it was ever the name of a horde of savages in any part of the world . " The following lines from ...
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... appears to be used nowhere else , as a territorial term , but in Iceland ; and it is remarkable , that each of the five districts of that name into which the county of Sussex is divided , has its own port and castle . Somner thinks the ...
... appears to be used nowhere else , as a territorial term , but in Iceland ; and it is remarkable , that each of the five districts of that name into which the county of Sussex is divided , has its own port and castle . Somner thinks the ...
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... appears that it is worth our while to try if we can keep this word in its strict , original signification . THE WORD " OUTRIGGER . " Webster in his Dictionary , gives the original sense of this term as follows : - : - " Outrigger , n ...
... appears that it is worth our while to try if we can keep this word in its strict , original signification . THE WORD " OUTRIGGER . " Webster in his Dictionary , gives the original sense of this term as follows : - : - " Outrigger , n ...
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... appears to have been published by authority of the Long Parliament , and contains the reply , by " C. R. , " one of Fairfax's officers at the taking of Colchester , to the last speech of Sir C. Lucas when about to be shot by the ...
... appears to have been published by authority of the Long Parliament , and contains the reply , by " C. R. , " one of Fairfax's officers at the taking of Colchester , to the last speech of Sir C. Lucas when about to be shot by the ...
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... appears to be taken from an old proverbial expression applicable to any thing new , unexpected , and strange . In Shakspeare's Henry IV . ii . 4 , we have " High ! Heigh ! the devil rides on a fiddlestick ; what's the matter ? " This is ...
... appears to be taken from an old proverbial expression applicable to any thing new , unexpected , and strange . In Shakspeare's Henry IV . ii . 4 , we have " High ! Heigh ! the devil rides on a fiddlestick ; what's the matter ? " This is ...
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Página 266 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind.
Página 183 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of" bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Página 1 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Página 205 - I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up...
Página 364 - In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing, in the least, what I intended to say, or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it.
Página 259 - Shakespeare was godfather to one of Ben Jonson's children, and, after the christening, being in a deep study, Jonson came to cheer him up, and asked him why he was so melancholy. ' No faith, Ben,' says he, ' not I, but I have been considering a great while what should be the fittest gift for me to bestow upon my godchild, and I have resolved at last.' ' I prythee, what ? ' says he. ' I* faith, Ben, I'll e'en give him a dozen good Latin (latten) spoons, and thou shalt translate them.
Página 201 - For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you ; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
Página 34 - Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty : For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: He woundeth, and his hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles: Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Página 282 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Página 64 - In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town — the tide rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and...