Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language, Literature, Natural History, Topography, &c. Selected from Original Letters and Documents Addressed During the Year ... to the Publisher. 1851G. Willis, 1852 |
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Stran 60 - ... coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure, or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking bought, and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Stran 87 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Stran 15 - Every packet must be sent either without a cover, or in a cover open at the ends or sides.
Stran 79 - Wallace ; but success was wanting to consecrate resistance, their cause was branded with the disheartening name of treason, and their oppressed country was such a blank among nations, that, like the adventures of those woods which Rinaldo wished to explore, the fame of their actions was lost in the obscurity of the place where they achieved them. " Errando in quelli boschi Trovar potria strane avventure e molte, Ma come i luoghi i fatti ancor son foschi, Che non se n
Stran 76 - The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold ; The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold ; The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers ; The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours.
Stran 1 - Her own case," observes a female friend, " is, in some degree, an illustration of perfect independence of mind over all external circumstances. Perhaps to the LEL, of whom so many nonsensical things have been said, as that she should write with a crystal pen, dipped in dew, upon silver paper, and use for pounce the dust of a butterfly's wing, a dilettante of literature would assign for the scene of her authorship a fairy-like boudoir, with rose-coloured and silver hangings, fitted with all the luxuries...
Stran 41 - I went to prepare for their reception, leaving them for the present in their little cottage by the Wells. The weather being hot, and having sent my man on before, I rode negligently under favour of the shade, till, within three miles of Bromley, at a place called the Procession...
Stran 72 - Borough-hill is a great stone lying along of the length of about six feet. They went to this stone and knocked at it, and declared what they would borrow, and when they would repay, and a voice would answer when they should come, and that they should find what they desired to borrow at that stone. This...
Stran 61 - TOBACCO : with a- friendly answer to the late printed booke called WORKE FOR CHIMNEYSWEEPERS, etc., London, printed by Richard Field for Thomas Man, 16(12.
Stran 29 - Chronicles, 4th chapter, and 16th verse ; the word and occurs in the Old Testament 35,535 times ; the same word in the New Testament occurs 10,684 times ¡ the word Jehovah occurs 6,855 times.