Notes and Queries, Volumen153

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Oxford University Press, 1927

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Página 205 - WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
Página 5 - MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears. My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are...
Página 256 - •Sir, — I have two silver tea-spoons at London, and two at Bristol : this is all the plate which I have at present ; and I shall not buy any more while so many around me want bread. I am, sir, your most humble servant, JOHN WESLEY/' Perhaps there never was a more charitable man than Mr.
Página 136 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Página 455 - An accurate Historical Account of all the Orders of Knighthood at present existing in Europe.
Página 474 - Also, that they shall provide within three months next after this visitation, one book of the whole bible, of the largest volume in English.
Página 182 - He captured many thousand guns ; He wrote "The Great" before his name ; And dying, only left his sons The recollection of his shame. Though more than half the world was his, He died without a rood his own ; And borrowed from his enemies Six foot of ground to lie upon.
Página 295 - ... lands, so much the better. Thus, if a bramble grows on the hedge of one owner, and a branch, of which the end takes root, extends into the field of another, the best form for working...
Página 289 - But the subject is too painful a one to dwell longer upon. As to myself, all that I can do, either publicly or privately, to testify the reverence, the respect, I entertain for his memory as a hero, and as the greatest public character that ever embellished the page of history, independent of what I can, with the greatest truth, term the enthusiastic attachment I felt for him as a friend, I consider it as my duty to fulfil; and therefore, though I may be prevented from taking that ostensible and...
Página 4 - Where no sermon is, there let a homily be read, meet for the purpose. Fourthly, Let the offender be set directly over against the pulpit during the sermon or homily, and there stand bare-headed, with the sheet or other accustomed note of difference ; and that upon some board, raised a foot and a half at least above the church floor...

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