A New History of Great Britain: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time ...C. Law, 1803 - 455 страница |
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... brought about a peace . " When two armies have been ftanding in order of battle , " fays Diodorus Siculus , " with fwords drawn and lances ex- tended , on the point of engaging in a most furious con- flict , these poets have ftept in ...
... brought about a peace . " When two armies have been ftanding in order of battle , " fays Diodorus Siculus , " with fwords drawn and lances ex- tended , on the point of engaging in a most furious con- flict , these poets have ftept in ...
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... brought from Britain , we should be obliged to embrace this opinion . But as we know that they found great quantities of tin , as well as of more precious metals in Spain , we cannot fix the æra of their arrival in Britain from this ...
... brought from Britain , we should be obliged to embrace this opinion . But as we know that they found great quantities of tin , as well as of more precious metals in Spain , we cannot fix the æra of their arrival in Britain from this ...
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... brought with them great numbers of armed men , together with their wives and children , and per- haps their most valuable effects . This could not be done without fleets of fhips of greater capacity and ftrength than the wicker - boats ...
... brought with them great numbers of armed men , together with their wives and children , and per- haps their most valuable effects . This could not be done without fleets of fhips of greater capacity and ftrength than the wicker - boats ...
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... brought along with them their own knives and forks , which hung from the girdle in the fame fheath with the dagger , which is called the bidoc by the ancient Scots . On fome particular occafions , the hofpitable chief placed parties of ...
... brought along with them their own knives and forks , which hung from the girdle in the fame fheath with the dagger , which is called the bidoc by the ancient Scots . On fome particular occafions , the hofpitable chief placed parties of ...
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... Brought up in battle , and habituated to blood , the Saxons made their gods as fierce and un- tractable as themfelves . The character given of Odin differs in no refpect from the pictures we have of those bold and intrepid warriors ...
... Brought up in battle , and habituated to blood , the Saxons made their gods as fierce and un- tractable as themfelves . The character given of Odin differs in no refpect from the pictures we have of those bold and intrepid warriors ...
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Страница 376 - Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month; and Gay A week ; and Arbuthnot a day. St John himself will scarce forbear, To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug and cry I'm sorry; but we all must die.
Страница 390 - The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity.
Страница 254 - THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad.
Страница 394 - I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Страница 400 - ... collate manuscripts — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
Страница 270 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Страница 379 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their letters, and that he who writes to his friends lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the "Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.
Страница 124 - Lever a cinq, diner a neuf, Souper a cinq, coucher a neuf, Fait vivre d'ans nonante et neuf.
Страница 153 - ... a coat, one half white, and the other half black or blue ; a long beard ; a silk hood buttoned under his chin, embroidered with grotesque figures of animals, dancing men, &c.
Страница 370 - I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson.