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... Edward Belcher , R.N. 2 vols . • III . - Narrative of a Journey to Kalat , including an Account of the Insurrection at that Place in 1840 , & c . By Charles Mas- son , Esq . IV . A Memoir of Ireland , Native and Saxon . By Daniel O'Con ...
... Edward Belcher , R.N. 2 vols . • III . - Narrative of a Journey to Kalat , including an Account of the Insurrection at that Place in 1840 , & c . By Charles Mas- son , Esq . IV . A Memoir of Ireland , Native and Saxon . By Daniel O'Con ...
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... Edwards . XVII.-L. S. D. , or Accounts of Irish Heirs , Furnished to the Public Monthly by Samuel Lover . Accountant for Irish Inherit- ances . Parts I. to 11I . 564 . 565 XVIII . - Poems by Ben . Fenton . 566 XIX . - War and Peace . By ...
... Edwards . XVII.-L. S. D. , or Accounts of Irish Heirs , Furnished to the Public Monthly by Samuel Lover . Accountant for Irish Inherit- ances . Parts I. to 11I . 564 . 565 XVIII . - Poems by Ben . Fenton . 566 XIX . - War and Peace . By ...
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... Edward the Third in 1326 , to the coronation of Henry the Fourth and death of Richard the Second in 1399 and 1100 ; but of the first thirty years of this period , ending with the battle of Poictiers in 1356 , Froissart was not himself ...
... Edward the Third in 1326 , to the coronation of Henry the Fourth and death of Richard the Second in 1399 and 1100 ; but of the first thirty years of this period , ending with the battle of Poictiers in 1356 , Froissart was not himself ...
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... Edward the Third , supported by his gallant son , and that of Richard the Second , a monarch who seemed sent only to make good the saying that , in the Plantagenet line , a weak prince frequently intervened between two powerful ones ...
... Edward the Third , supported by his gallant son , and that of Richard the Second , a monarch who seemed sent only to make good the saying that , in the Plantagenet line , a weak prince frequently intervened between two powerful ones ...
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... Edward the Third , the life and actions of the Black Prince , the early splendour of Richard the Second ; not a few Scottish campaigns , and more than one in Flanders and Spain . But its brilliant features are the wars of England for ...
... Edward the Third , the life and actions of the Black Prince , the early splendour of Richard the Second ; not a few Scottish campaigns , and more than one in Flanders and Spain . But its brilliant features are the wars of England for ...
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Page 126 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Page 252 - I wooed the blue-eyed maid, Yielding, yet half afraid, And in the forest's shade Our vows were plighted. Under its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted.
Page 253 - THE RAINY DAY. THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 252 - But when I older grew, Joining a corsair's crew, O'er the dark sea I flew With the marauders. Wild was the life we led ; Many the souls that sped, Many the hearts that bled, By our stern orders. " Many a wassail-bout Wore the long Winter out ; Often our midnight shout Set the cocks crowing, As we the Berserk's tale Measured in cups of ale, Draining the oaken pail, Filled to o'erflowing.
Page 251 - Pale flashes seemed to rise, As when the Northern skies Gleam in December ; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber.
Page 411 - ... hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people...
Page 252 - Oft to his frozen lair Tracked I the grisly bear, While from my path the hare Fled like a shadow ; Oft through the forest dark Followed the werewolf's bark, Until the soaring lark Sang from the meadow. " But when I older grew, Joining a corsair's crew, O'er the dark sea I flew With the marauders.
Page 226 - return to him, and to them that sent you hither, and say to them that they send no more to me for any adventure that falleth, as long as my son is alive. And also say to them that they suffer him this day to win his spurs; for if God be pleased, I will this journey be his and the honour thereof, and to them that be about him.
Page 411 - I would establish but one great general rule to be observed in all conversation, which is this, "that men should not talk to please themselves, but those that hear them." This would make them consider, whether what they speak be worth hearing; whether there be either wit or sense in what they are about to say; and, whether it be adapted to the time when, the place where, and the person to whom, it is spoken.
Page 210 - the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age, and all at eighteen ; the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor, for her parent's offences.