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... remains of the strong and stately castle , where Richard kept many more Christmas feasts , and the same may be said of the Cistercian abbey of Hayles , which he soon after set about building in fulfilment of his vow . He was well able ...
... remains of the strong and stately castle , where Richard kept many more Christmas feasts , and the same may be said of the Cistercian abbey of Hayles , which he soon after set about building in fulfilment of his vow . He was well able ...
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... remains , or and argent , gules and azure , dragon and griffin , were not then purely conventional terms , nor were armorial bearings originally adopted by any royal or noble house without due regard to their import , and in order ...
... remains , or and argent , gules and azure , dragon and griffin , were not then purely conventional terms , nor were armorial bearings originally adopted by any royal or noble house without due regard to their import , and in order ...
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... remains of the men were found spears , the bosses of shields , knives , and , in one instance , a sword ; with those of the women , fibulæ of various forms and patterns , glass and amber beads , tooth - picks , ear - scoops , tweezers ...
... remains of the men were found spears , the bosses of shields , knives , and , in one instance , a sword ; with those of the women , fibulæ of various forms and patterns , glass and amber beads , tooth - picks , ear - scoops , tweezers ...
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... remains of a monumental brass , the work of a recent period , representing three skeletons , from the parish church of Weybridge , Surrey . The DIRECTOR exhibited and presented to the Society a copy of the Arundel Society's chromo ...
... remains of a monumental brass , the work of a recent period , representing three skeletons , from the parish church of Weybridge , Surrey . The DIRECTOR exhibited and presented to the Society a copy of the Arundel Society's chromo ...
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... remains belonged to the Dorachos , an extinct nation of Chiriqui , sometimes known as the ' martial tribes of Veraguas . ' 66 66 There are models of armadillos , bells , and thin circular gold plates . Description of objects exhibited ...
... remains belonged to the Dorachos , an extinct nation of Chiriqui , sometimes known as the ' martial tribes of Veraguas . ' 66 66 There are models of armadillos , bells , and thin circular gold plates . Description of objects exhibited ...
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Page 393 - In daylight I was not only fearless, but audacious, inclined to defy all power and brave all danger, — that is, all danger I could see. I remember volunteering to lead the way through a herd of cattle (among which was a dangerous bull, the terror of the neighbourhood) armed only with a little stick ; but first I said the Lord's Prayer fervently. In the ghastly night I never prayed; terror stifled prayer.
Page 55 - ... have felt that that forthcoming navigable season of 1847 would see their ships pass over so short an intervening space ! It was ruled otherwise. Within a month after Lieutenant Gore placed the record on Point Victory, the much-loved leader of the expedition, Sir John Franklin, was dead ; and the following spring found Captain Crozier, upon whom the command had devolved, at King William's Land endeavouring to save his starving men, 105 souls in all, from a terrible death by retreating to the Hudson...
Page 325 - ... coursing against Christ Church, the largest and most numerous college in the University. This coursing was in older times, I believe, intended for a fair trial of learning and skill in logic, metaphysics, and school divinity, but for some ages that had been the least part of it, the dispute quickly ending in affronts, confusion, and very often blows, when they went most gravely to work.
Page 55 - June, 1847; and the total loss by deaths in the expedition has been to this date 9 officers and 15 men. (Signed) James Fitzjames, Captain HMS Erebus. (Signed) FRM Crozier, Captain and Senior Officer. and start (on) to-morrow, 26th, for Back's Fish River.
Page 326 - The first was a harder work, it having been a foolish custom of great antiquity, that one of the seniors in the evening called the freshmen (which are such as came since that time twelvemonth) to the fire, and made them hold out their chin, and they with the nail of their right thumb, left long for that purpose, grate off all the skin from the lip to the chin, and then cause them to drink a beerglass of -water and salt.
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Page 412 - Your words and promises are very fair, but as they are new to us, and of uncertain import, I cannot approve of them so far as to forsake that which I have so long followed with the whole English nation.