The Table Book, Volume 2W. Hone, 1828 - Almanacs, English |
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... church afterwards adopted the ceremony of the ring in marriage , as a symbol of the autho- rity which the husband gave the wife over his household , and over the " earthly goods " with which he endowed her . But the gimmal ring is ...
... church afterwards adopted the ceremony of the ring in marriage , as a symbol of the autho- rity which the husband gave the wife over his household , and over the " earthly goods " with which he endowed her . But the gimmal ring is ...
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... church ; from the steeple arise four gothic spires . 29th . Went forward to Castleton , down the hills called the Wynyats , by the Spar- row Pit mountain ; the ride took me over some of the wild and barren hills which surround Buxton on ...
... church ; from the steeple arise four gothic spires . 29th . Went forward to Castleton , down the hills called the Wynyats , by the Spar- row Pit mountain ; the ride took me over some of the wild and barren hills which surround Buxton on ...
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... church is situated on a rising ground . There is a neat stone bridge over the river Wye , and the silvery stream winds the adjoining vale . The view from the church - yard is enchant- ing . The two rivers , the Wye and Der- went , form ...
... church is situated on a rising ground . There is a neat stone bridge over the river Wye , and the silvery stream winds the adjoining vale . The view from the church - yard is enchant- ing . The two rivers , the Wye and Der- went , form ...
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... church , the newly- baptized infant , and vibrate it three or four times gently over a flame , saying , and re- peating it thrice , " Let the flame consume thee now or never . " Martin relates , that in the Western Islands , the same ...
... church , the newly- baptized infant , and vibrate it three or four times gently over a flame , saying , and re- peating it thrice , " Let the flame consume thee now or never . " Martin relates , that in the Western Islands , the same ...
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... church defaced with plaster ; what does it record ? " Beautified by Samuel Smear and Daniel Daub , churchwardens . " And so these honest gentlemen call dis- guising that fine , old , stone building , with a thick coat of lime and hair ...
... church defaced with plaster ; what does it record ? " Beautified by Samuel Smear and Daniel Daub , churchwardens . " And so these honest gentlemen call dis- guising that fine , old , stone building , with a thick coat of lime and hair ...
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Page 741 - A man may see how this world goes, with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: Change places; and, handydandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Page 393 - It was not their custom to use hostile weapons against their fellow-creatures, for which reason they had come unarmed. Their object was not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. They...
Page 439 - ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Page 441 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 135 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 87 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 563 - Say, did these fingers delve the mine, Or with its envied rubies shine ? To hew the rock, or wear the gem, Can nothing now avail to them ; But if the page of Truth they sought, Or comfort to the mourner brought, These hands a richer meed shall claim Than all that waits on wealth or fame.
Page 577 - A tragiccomedy is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy...
Page 63 - And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
Page 29 - O a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, , there is a momentary - feeling of something like independence and territorial consequence, when, after a weary day's travel, he kicks off his boots, thrusts his feet into slippers, and stretches himself before an inn fire.