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... give the hawks under his care as much flying as possible , and he should avoid the very common mis- take of keeping too many hawks . In this case a favored few are sure to get all the work , and the others , possibly equally good if ...
... give the hawks under his care as much flying as possible , and he should avoid the very common mis- take of keeping too many hawks . In this case a favored few are sure to get all the work , and the others , possibly equally good if ...
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... give it to Svetaketu , before whose date " women were unconfined , and roamed at their pleasure . This ancient custom is even now the rule for creatures born as brutes ... and it is still practised among the northern Kurus " ( Muir ...
... give it to Svetaketu , before whose date " women were unconfined , and roamed at their pleasure . This ancient custom is even now the rule for creatures born as brutes ... and it is still practised among the northern Kurus " ( Muir ...
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... gives that of the father . " Certain Egyptian mortuary inscriptions give the name of the mother , while the accom- panying Greek text gives that of the father . A stele found in the ruins of the temple at Napata by Mariette Bey ( Revue ...
... gives that of the father . " Certain Egyptian mortuary inscriptions give the name of the mother , while the accom- panying Greek text gives that of the father . A stele found in the ruins of the temple at Napata by Mariette Bey ( Revue ...
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... give it position . " By the 6th December he had sent in to the Royal Society the twentieth , and on 24th December ... gives the following note as to this lecture : - The discovery of the magnetic rotation of the plane of polarized light ...
... give it position . " By the 6th December he had sent in to the Royal Society the twentieth , and on 24th December ... gives the following note as to this lecture : - The discovery of the magnetic rotation of the plane of polarized light ...
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... give the enemy the Several letters addressed by with his arrangements . His skill John Russell , on the affairs of only to his generalship , but it was pendix to a Mémoire sur les Afe , and his dissimulation was re- lection of his ...
... give the enemy the Several letters addressed by with his arrangements . His skill John Russell , on the affairs of only to his generalship , but it was pendix to a Mémoire sur les Afe , and his dissimulation was re- lection of his ...
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Page 24 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.
Page 45 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 256 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 241 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 266 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 78 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Page 43 - Ascension- Day. Pentecost. St. Matthias. St. John Baptist. St. Peter. St. James. St. Bartholomew. St. Matthew. St. Simon and St. Jude. St. Andrew. St. Thomas.
Page 125 - Our immortal Fielding was of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburg, the lineal descendants of Eltrico, in the seventh century Duke of Alsace.
Page 125 - Hapsburg: the former, the knights and sheriffs of Leicestershire, have slowly risen to the dignity of a peerage; the latter, the Emperors of Germany and Kings of Spain, have threatened the liberty of the old, and invaded the treasures of the new world. The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones...