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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesafterwards ancient appear Apulia army Bacon Belisarius body British called cause church coast colour command common court crown death died divine Dryd Dryden Dublin emperor enemy England English fame favour fays fense fide force France French give Goths hath Henry honour Hooker Hyder Aly India Indian inhabitants injection inoculation instinct insured inter Ireland Irish iron island Italy Jupiter kind king kingdom lacteals land Latin Lord manner matter means ment miles Milton mind nabob nature obliged Odoacer parliament person plants Pope possession prince principal produce reign river Romans Rome Sbak Scotland Scots law semitone sent sepoys Shak Sicily soon spirit thee thing thou tion Tippoo took Totila town of France trade troops variolous vessels Vitiges whole word Popular passagesPage 263 - Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold ; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould; And hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. Page 130 - ... even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the Holy See; and as far as the... Page 275 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. Page 47 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar. Page 194 - tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is that word, honour? air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? he that died o Page 142 - Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt. Page 146 - ... first, those which are truly and properly his own suits, and filed ex officio by his own immediate officer, the attorney general : secondly, those in which, though the king is the nominal prosecutor, yet it is at the relation of some private person or common informer; and they are filed by the king's coroner and attorney in the court of king's bench, usually called the master of the crown-office, who is for this purpose the standing officer of the public. Page 152 - By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients ; and from motions to the forces producing them ; and, in general, from effects to their causes ; and from particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general. Page 155 - IV. A fourth rule, or canon of descents, is this ; that the lineal descendants, in ir\finituni, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living. Page 194 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism. Bibliographic information
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