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... means of hanging many of the innocent Family of the Bells , Under the idle pretence of keeping them from Jang ( ling ) And put great numbers of the hearts of steel into the hottest flames , Merely ( as he declar'd ) to soften the ...
... means of hanging many of the innocent Family of the Bells , Under the idle pretence of keeping them from Jang ( ling ) And put great numbers of the hearts of steel into the hottest flames , Merely ( as he declar'd ) to soften the ...
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... means equally " to have a right to ( do ) " or " to be bound to ( do ) , " according to context . 66 H. K. ST . J. S. Phrase 1 is often heard from witnesses in London Law Courts . Like many other solecisms , it results from a negative ...
... means equally " to have a right to ( do ) " or " to be bound to ( do ) , " according to context . 66 H. K. ST . J. S. Phrase 1 is often heard from witnesses in London Law Courts . Like many other solecisms , it results from a negative ...
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... means of avoiding the ill effects . of the evil eye , and of scaring away disease . Though in no sense of the term " comparative , " it . will prove an invaluable work of reference to the student of comparative folk - lore ...
... means of avoiding the ill effects . of the evil eye , and of scaring away disease . Though in no sense of the term " comparative , " it . will prove an invaluable work of reference to the student of comparative folk - lore ...
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... means 99 66 The case method THIS is a University number , and Mr. Hicks , who is the Law Librarian to Columbia University , writes on Library Problems resulting from Recent Developments in American Universities . ' He points out some of ...
... means 99 66 The case method THIS is a University number , and Mr. Hicks , who is the Law Librarian to Columbia University , writes on Library Problems resulting from Recent Developments in American Universities . ' He points out some of ...
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66 serrer une voile en chapeau , " and explains that this means to gather ( ramasser ) a sail in the middle of the yard under which it is reefed . I conclude that somebody saw a resem- blance to a cocked hat , and made a phrase of it ...
66 serrer une voile en chapeau , " and explains that this means to gather ( ramasser ) a sail in the middle of the yard under which it is reefed . I conclude that somebody saw a resem- blance to a cocked hat , and made a phrase of it ...
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Página 126 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Página 363 - Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground : for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Página 38 - Christian kings, inflamed by black desire, With honourable ruffians in their hire, Cause war to rage, and blood around to pour : Of this sad work when each begins to tire, They sit them down just where they were before, Till for new scenes of woe peace shall their force restore.
Página 311 - At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air, at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward.
Página 130 - Every one accustomed to very young children knows how seldom one can get an answer even to so simple a question as whether a thing is black or white ; the idea of black or white seems alternately to fill their minds. So it was with these Fuegians...
Página 337 - The forehead and temples had lost little or nothing of their muscular substance ; the cartilage of the nose was gone, but the left eye, in the first moment of exposure, was open and full, though it vanished almost immediately ; and the pointed beard...
Página 55 - Of prelatists abjured : though here their dust Lies mixt with murderers and other crew, Whom justice justly did to death pursue. But as for them no cause was to be found Worthy of death ; but only they were...
Página 170 - Item. Ten thousand francs to the subaltern officer Cantillon, who has undergone a trial upon the charge of having endeavoured to assassinate Lord Wellington, of which he was pronounced innocent. Cantillon had as much right to assassinate that ofigarckist, as the latter had to send me to perish upon the rock of St. Helena.
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