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... received a measure of salt and a phallus . If we except the phallus , which was easily omitted , here is an exact identity between the Aphrodisia and the Montem . In the Eton phrase , the visitors , in both cases , come to be salted ...
... received a measure of salt and a phallus . If we except the phallus , which was easily omitted , here is an exact identity between the Aphrodisia and the Montem . In the Eton phrase , the visitors , in both cases , come to be salted ...
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... received a donation of the island of Puerto Santo , on condition of colonizing and bringing it into culture . But , so great was the multitude of rabbits , all said to have been produced from one doe transmitted with young from Portugal ...
... received a donation of the island of Puerto Santo , on condition of colonizing and bringing it into culture . But , so great was the multitude of rabbits , all said to have been produced from one doe transmitted with young from Portugal ...
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... received . They exceed in grossness and obscenity any productions of the kind to be found in the whole range of poetry . The civil action , which the English law accords to the husband , against the seducer of his wife , is , I believe ...
... received . They exceed in grossness and obscenity any productions of the kind to be found in the whole range of poetry . The civil action , which the English law accords to the husband , against the seducer of his wife , is , I believe ...
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... received a sufficiently pressing in- vitation to proceed to Noatkote , where the Rajah of Nepaul at that time held his court ; and having obtained the necessary authority for the purpose , from his own government , he proceeded thither ...
... received a sufficiently pressing in- vitation to proceed to Noatkote , where the Rajah of Nepaul at that time held his court ; and having obtained the necessary authority for the purpose , from his own government , he proceeded thither ...
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... received for answer , Mani ; but whether this is the proper name of its author , or no more than a general denomina- tion by which they discriminate sacred from prophane writings , I am unable to determine . I observed that as often as ...
... received for answer , Mani ; but whether this is the proper name of its author , or no more than a general denomina- tion by which they discriminate sacred from prophane writings , I am unable to determine . I observed that as often as ...
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Page 474 - Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own.
Page 141 - Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support and ornament of virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace.
Page 499 - Congress concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies...
Page 54 - Brahma has been established from the most remote antiquity in this secluded valley, where, in truth, there are nearly as many temples as houses, and as many idols as inhabitants, there not being a fountain, a river, or a hill within its limits, that is not consecrated to one or other of the Hindoo deities.
Page 100 - THAT the right of establishing and regulating the legal money of this kingdom hath at all times been a royal prerogative, vested in the Sovereigns thereof, who have from time to time exercised the same as they have seen fit, in changing such legal money, or altering and varying the value, and enforcing or restraining the circulation thereof, by proclamation, or in concurrence with the estates of the realm by Act of Parliament : and that such legal money cannot lawfully be defaced, melted down, or...
Page 192 - Clarke, your knights, esquires and yeomen about you in the third degree, and the worthiest men in your land to be called in before your Deemsters, if you will ask...
Page 193 - How sweet to the heart is the thought of to-morrow, When Hope's fairy pictures bright colours display ! How sweet when we can from futurity borrow...
Page 372 - Holydayes, they come and take one another by the hand ; the one of them saith, ' The Lord, or Christ, is risen...
Page 371 - Bless, O Lord, we beseech thee, this thy creature of eggs, that it may become a wholesome sustenance to thy faithful servants, eating it in thankfulness to thee, on account of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, with thee,.&c.
Page 101 - ... have frequently risen above the mint price ; and the coinage of money at the mint has been either wholly suspended or greatly diminished in amount ; and that such circumstances have usually occurred, when expensive naval and military operations have been carried on abroad ; and in times of public danger or alarm ; or when large importations of grain from foreign parts have taken place.