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... period at which it first migrated into Europe ; but it is impossible not to believe that it formed one of the primary divisions of the human race ; and there is very strong probability , from many note- worthy circumstances , that it ...
... period at which it first migrated into Europe ; but it is impossible not to believe that it formed one of the primary divisions of the human race ; and there is very strong probability , from many note- worthy circumstances , that it ...
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... periods of our history the Celtic race has existed over the whole or a notable portion of the British islands ; the ... period , and the words so adopted have generally been transferred by poets and writers of fiction - Scott , for ...
... periods of our history the Celtic race has existed over the whole or a notable portion of the British islands ; the ... period , and the words so adopted have generally been transferred by poets and writers of fiction - Scott , for ...
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... period of 470 years , i . e . from 60 B.C. to A.D. 410 — there can be no doubt but that a considerable part of the indigenous population submitted to the victorious invaders , and con- tinued to occupy their estates in the Roman ...
... period of 470 years , i . e . from 60 B.C. to A.D. 410 — there can be no doubt but that a considerable part of the indigenous population submitted to the victorious invaders , and con- tinued to occupy their estates in the Roman ...
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... period of anarchy and bloodshed which intervened be tween the departure of the Romans and the arrival of the Saxon hordes in 449 , and the gradual foundation in England of the Eight Kingdoms , the country must be conceived to have gone ...
... period of anarchy and bloodshed which intervened be tween the departure of the Romans and the arrival of the Saxon hordes in 449 , and the gradual foundation in England of the Eight Kingdoms , the country must be conceived to have gone ...
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... period , and also a considerable Latinising tendency may be remarked ; but the changes of which we are speaking are rather of form than of matter , and are generally referable to one or other of the various causes which have been ...
... period , and also a considerable Latinising tendency may be remarked ; but the changes of which we are speaking are rather of form than of matter , and are generally referable to one or other of the various causes which have been ...
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Page 71 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 241 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 191 - ... of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history...
Page 234 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 244 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 168 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
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Page 288 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 134 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Page 168 - Gods; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia.