The Cheshire Sheaf ...: Being Local Gleanings, Historical and Antiquarian, Relating to Cheshire, Chester and North Wales, from Many Scattered Fields ..., Том 2

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"Chester Courant" Office, 1883
 

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Стр. 204 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Стр. 209 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Стр. 209 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Стр. 343 - The Situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal: work it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, be free.
Стр. 316 - Hysteria might be described as possession, possession by seven devils, except that this number is quite insufficient to account for all the pranks played by the subjects of this extraordinary malady. I do not want to say anything against Mary Chase, but I suspect that, getting nervous and tired and hysteric, she got into bed, which she found rather agreeable after too much housework, and perhaps too much going to meeting; liked it better and better, curled herself up into a bunch which made her look...
Стр. 393 - He had gone about among them from house to house, though he could not imagine what he could say to them, for he said he was a very silly fellow. But that, he believed, his nonsense suited their nonsense, for he had brought them all to church. And, in reward of his diligence, he had given him a bishopric in Ireland.
Стр. 198 - God bless the master of this house. Likewise the mistress too, And all the little children, That round the table go...
Стр. 221 - The good old dames, whenever they the chimney man espied, Unto their nooks they haste away, their pots and pipkins hide. There is not one old dame in ten, and search the nation through, But, if you talk of chimney men, will spare a curse or two.
Стр. 316 - ... posseted, and prayed over and made much of, and so lay quiet until a false paralysis caught hold of her legs and held her there. If some one had 'hollered' fire! it is not unlikely that she would have jumped out of bed, as many other such paralytics have done under such circumstances. She could have moved, probably enough, if any one could have made her believe that she had the power of doing it.
Стр. 26 - The Most High and Mightie Prince, James, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith.

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