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Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1907
 

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Сторінка 55 - March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
Сторінка 239 - He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Сторінка 279 - ... first on one side of the road and then on the other, did not attract so much notice as it might have done.
Сторінка 41 - Carteret his intended wife lawfully to be begotten ; and for default of such issue, to the use of the right heirs of the said Sir Robert the father for ever.
Сторінка 106 - ... stood glimmering in the moonlight, like the sheeted spectre of some huge giant. A wilder, or more disconsolate dwelling, it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to the ear what the landscape was to the eye— a symbol of unvaried and monotonous melancholy, not unmingled with horror.
Сторінка 57 - He begins to die, that quits his desires. A handful of good life is better than a bushel of Learning.
Сторінка 230 - Walpole's fault, to be made still more public, for which they certainly were never meant; but it is too late to complain. They have been so applauded, it is quite a shame to repeat it: I mean not to be modest; but it is a shame for those who have said such superlative things about them, that I cannot repeat them. I should have been glad that you and two or three more people had liked them, which would have satisfied my ambition on this head amply.
Сторінка 31 - Northumberland, held in chief by the service of the twentieth part of a knight's fee, and by the name of John Ord.
Сторінка 240 - ... from that disorder, which is occasioned by a hag, or witch, sitting on the stomach of the party afflicted. It also prevents witches riding horses, for which purpose it is often tied to a stable key.
Сторінка 245 - I have gotten i" a man with the help of the LORD." 2 And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.

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