The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 97Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1827 - English essays |
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... Earl's younger son , and a Viscount's eldest son are not Lords , because they rank with commoners only . But within the last few years there have sprouted forth a number of young Lords never heard of before , and who have no places ...
... Earl's younger son , and a Viscount's eldest son are not Lords , because they rank with commoners only . But within the last few years there have sprouted forth a number of young Lords never heard of before , and who have no places ...
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... Earl of Somerset , and others to the Earl of Suf- folk . But his bounty is no whit abated , for he feasts the whole University of Cam- bridge this Christmas , and hath warrants to his friends and acquaintance far and near to furnish him ...
... Earl of Somerset , and others to the Earl of Suf- folk . But his bounty is no whit abated , for he feasts the whole University of Cam- bridge this Christmas , and hath warrants to his friends and acquaintance far and near to furnish him ...
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... Earl of Eglintown , who , following the system of ancient treatises , collected much indifferent matter and elaborate study fit to be learnt by the underling attendant on the hawks , with scarcely an equal pro- portion of useful or ...
... Earl of Eglintown , who , following the system of ancient treatises , collected much indifferent matter and elaborate study fit to be learnt by the underling attendant on the hawks , with scarcely an equal pro- portion of useful or ...
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... Earl of Grosvenor has commenced building a large and splendid town mansion , in Upper Brook - street , from the designs of Mr. Cundy and judging from the style and character of the western wing , we may ex- pect to see an edifice worthy ...
... Earl of Grosvenor has commenced building a large and splendid town mansion , in Upper Brook - street , from the designs of Mr. Cundy and judging from the style and character of the western wing , we may ex- pect to see an edifice worthy ...
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named Belgrave , one of the titles of the Earl of Grosvenor , has been advanced with great rapidity during the last year , and when completed will present one of the most uni- form and elegant series of mansions in the Metropolis ...
named Belgrave , one of the titles of the Earl of Grosvenor , has been advanced with great rapidity during the last year , and when completed will present one of the most uni- form and elegant series of mansions in the Metropolis ...
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Page 222 - Now I beseech you, brethren-, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Page 486 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 523 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 491 - They heard, and were abash'd, and up they sprung Upon the wing ; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Page 524 - Cabinet — that the admission of the Catholics and Dissenters to offices, and of the Catholics to Parliament, (from which latter the Dissenters are now excluded) would, under certain conditions to be specified, be highly advisable, with a view to the tranquillity and improvement of Ireland, and to the general interest of the United Kingdom.
Page 104 - ship-boy on the high and giddy mast," but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot: yet if I was restless and discontented, I can safely say, it was not so much on account of this, as of my being precluded from all possibility of reading; as my master did not possess, nor do I...
Page 209 - I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute : that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation...
Page 509 - The king was young and lusty, disposed all to mirth and pleasure, and to follow his desire and appetite, nothing minding to travail in the busy affairs of this realm...
Page 105 - The lamentable doggerel which I have already mentioned, and which had passed from mouth to mouth among people of my own degree, had by some accident or other reached his ear, and given him a curiosity to inquire after the author.
Page 15 - A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known ; Tho' the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own.