The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past, Том 16

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Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson
E. Stock, 1887
 

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Сторінка 69 - Experiment; viz. as he was taking the aire in a Coach with Dr. Witherborne (a Scotchman, Physician to the King) towards High-gate, snow lay on the ground, and it came into my Lord's thoughts, why flesh might not be preserved in snow, as in Salt. They were resolved they would try the Experiment presently. They alighted out of the Coach and went into a...
Сторінка 40 - Bibliotheca Britannica ; or, a General Index to the Literature of Great Britain and Ireland, Ancient and Modern, with such Foreign Works as have been translated into English, or printed in the British Dominions : including also a copious Selection from the Writings of the most celebrated Authors of all Ages and Nations.
Сторінка 71 - For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I. This is the sixtieth year Since Bacon, and thy lord, was born, and here; Son to the grave, wise Keeper of the Seal, Fame and foundation of the English weal. What then his father was, that since is he, Now with a title more to the degree; England's high Chancellor: the destin'd heir, In his soft cradle, to his father's chair: Whose even thread the Fates spin round and full, Out of their choicest and their whitest wool.
Сторінка 247 - Maske,"1 wherein there are some good humours : among others, a good jeer to the old story of the Siege of Troy, making it to be a common country tale. But above all it was strange to see so little a boy as that was to act Cupid, which is one of the greatest parts in it.
Сторінка 71 - Hail, happy Genius of this ancient pile! How comes it all things so about thee smile? The fire, the wine, the men ! And in the midst Thou stand'st as if some mystery thou didst!
Сторінка 69 - A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for, are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.
Сторінка 147 - The two ministers sat aghast at an exhibition so unusual from any man of real sense and real spirit. And when at last Wolfe had taken his leave, and his carriage was heard to roll from the door, Pitt seemed for the moment shaken in the high opinion which his deliberate judgment had formed of Wolfe; he lifted up his eyes and arms, and exclaimed to Lord Temple, "Good God! that I should have intrusted the fate of the country and of the administration to such hands!
Сторінка 261 - And it seems this natural inclination is so strong and deeprooted, that neither age nor the absence of a smiling fortune can prevail against it. For on this dancing green there assembleth not only youth and gentry, but also age and beggary ; old wives which could not set foot to ground without a crutch in the streets had here taught their feet to amble...

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