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... Master of Modern Subjects in Merchant 25 . I. and II . ) , 9d . Part II . ( Books III . and IV . ) , 9d . ́ . ) , 9d . the Last Minstrel . HILLPOTTS , M.A. , Head Master of Bedford School . Part III . 2s . 6d . I. with Introduction ...
... Master of Modern Subjects in Merchant 25 . I. and II . ) , 9d . Part II . ( Books III . and IV . ) , 9d . ́ . ) , 9d . the Last Minstrel . HILLPOTTS , M.A. , Head Master of Bedford School . Part III . 2s . 6d . I. with Introduction ...
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... MASTER OF MODERN SUBJECTS AT MERCHANT TAYLORS ' SCHOOL , LATE SCHOLAR OF TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE , AND BELL UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR . Small 8vo . Thomson's Seasons : Winter . With an Introduction to the Series , by the Rev. J. FRANCK ...
... MASTER OF MODERN SUBJECTS AT MERCHANT TAYLORS ' SCHOOL , LATE SCHOLAR OF TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE , AND BELL UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR . Small 8vo . Thomson's Seasons : Winter . With an Introduction to the Series , by the Rev. J. FRANCK ...
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... Master of the Modern School at Marlborough College . This work is divided into three Periods , each complete in ... masters , it was proposed to the Author that he should write a School History of England . As the suggestion was ...
... Master of the Modern School at Marlborough College . This work is divided into three Periods , each complete in ... masters , it was proposed to the Author that he should write a School History of England . As the suggestion was ...
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... master was on fire . We do not know whether Elizabeth ever tried the effects of tobacco herself , but she would sit by Ralegh whilst he smoked . One day she said to him , that how- ever clever he might be , he could not tell the weight ...
... master was on fire . We do not know whether Elizabeth ever tried the effects of tobacco herself , but she would sit by Ralegh whilst he smoked . One day she said to him , that how- ever clever he might be , he could not tell the weight ...
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... master gunner to split and sink the ship . " He was determined to die rather than surrender to his enemies . The master gunner felt as he did ; but the other officers begged Sir Richard to have care of them . When he would not hearken ...
... master gunner to split and sink the ship . " He was determined to die rather than surrender to his enemies . The master gunner felt as he did ; but the other officers begged Sir Richard to have care of them . When he would not hearken ...
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Page 92 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history : (Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak), — such was my process; — And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 57 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 160 - Your words cannot condemn me ; my innocency is my defence. Prove one of these things wherewith you have charged me, and I will confess the whole indictment, and that I am the horriblest traitor that ever lived, and worthy to be crucified with a thousand thousand torments. " Attorney. Nay, I will prove all : thou art a monster ; thou hast an English face, but a Spanish heart.
Page 245 - Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 71 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the queen goes away so far off, whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. While she was yet...
Page 116 - Table;* her Bosom was uncovered, as all the English Ladies have it, till they marry; and she had on a Necklace of exceeding fine Jewels; her Hands were small, her Fingers long, and her Stature neither tall nor low; her Air was stately, her Manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Page 117 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Page 56 - Let tyrants fear ... I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects...
Page 116 - ... next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant, her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black...