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... king . The Thorsthing or Housethings , now shortened into Hustings , only survives amongst us as the name of the polling place . But in Yarmouth , the oldest seaport on the Norfolk coast , where the Danish element prevailed long after ...
... king . The Thorsthing or Housethings , now shortened into Hustings , only survives amongst us as the name of the polling place . But in Yarmouth , the oldest seaport on the Norfolk coast , where the Danish element prevailed long after ...
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... king's fire . Even if this occurrence did not originate the custom , it must have imparted an added zest to the old feast of Thor , and made the family reunion the one indestructible characteristic of the Yule by the sheltered hearth ...
... king's fire . Even if this occurrence did not originate the custom , it must have imparted an added zest to the old feast of Thor , and made the family reunion the one indestructible characteristic of the Yule by the sheltered hearth ...
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... king , it will stuff his suspicion more fully ' ; ' The indictment against an accessory after the fact for treason charges that the accessory " comforted " the principal traitor after knowledge of the treason , ' ' Trench says , in his ...
... king , it will stuff his suspicion more fully ' ; ' The indictment against an accessory after the fact for treason charges that the accessory " comforted " the principal traitor after knowledge of the treason , ' ' Trench says , in his ...
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... King Childebert at Paris , which visit led to his nomination as first Bishop of Dôle ; and that he died about the year 565 A.D. , at the age of eighty - five years . These particulars are condensed from Father Stanton's Menology of ...
... King Childebert at Paris , which visit led to his nomination as first Bishop of Dôle ; and that he died about the year 565 A.D. , at the age of eighty - five years . These particulars are condensed from Father Stanton's Menology of ...
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... King's College , Cambridge , Canon of the Cathedral of St. Alban's , and Examining Chaplain of the Bishop . Large post 8vo . pp . 608 , cloth , 78. 6d . The Volume , JULY to DECEMBER , 1895 , With the Index , Price 108. 6d . , is NEARLY ...
... King's College , Cambridge , Canon of the Cathedral of St. Alban's , and Examining Chaplain of the Bishop . Large post 8vo . pp . 608 , cloth , 78. 6d . The Volume , JULY to DECEMBER , 1895 , With the Index , Price 108. 6d . , is NEARLY ...
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Página 376 - em! No travelling at all — no locomotion, No inkling of the way — no notion — "No go" — by land or ocean — No mail — no post — No news from any foreign coast — No park — no ring — no afternoon gentility — No company — no nobility — No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member — No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
Página 80 - I can love both fair and brown, Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays, Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays, Her whom the country formed, and whom the town, Her who believes, and her who tries, Her who still weeps with spongy eyes, And her who is dry cork, and never cries; I can love her, and her, and you and you, I can love any, so she be not true.
Página 341 - Child Rowland to the dark tower came, His word was still, — Fie, fob, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man.
Página 401 - That like a broken purpose waste in air : So waste not thou ; but come ; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
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Página 6 - And he charged them that they should tell no man : but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; and were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Página 401 - There's not a flower on all the hills : the frost is on the pane I only wish to live till the snowdrops come again : I wish the snow would melt and the sun come out on high : I long to see a flower so before the day I die. The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, And the swallow 'ill come back again with summer o'er the wave, But I shall lie alone, mother, within the mouldering grave.
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Página 293 - And thro the whins, and by the cairn, Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; And near the thorn, aboon the well, Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel. Before him Doon pours all his floods; The doubling storm roars thro...
Página 263 - After dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun to discharge seven times ; the best of all devices that ever I saw, and very serviceable, and not a bawble ; for it is much approved of, and many thereof made.