The Western Antiquary, Volume 2William Henry Kearley Wright Latimer & son, 1883 "Reprinted after revision and correction from the 'Weekly Mercury,'" Mar. 1881-May 1884. |
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Page 124 - Thurlow, I am nobody, and shall be always nobody, and you will be Chancellor. You shall provide for me when you are.
Page 8 - I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Page 74 - This is repeated three several times ; and the firkin is handed round between each shout, by way, I conclude, of libation. When the weather is fine, different parties of reapers, each stationed on some height, may be heard for miles round, shouting, as it were, in answer to each other.
Page 209 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Page 123 - God (though with the loss of some eminent persons, who shall never be forgotten by us,) to reward their loyalty and patience by many strange victories over their and our enemies, in...
Page 198 - And the sly Devil did not take his spouse. But Heaven that brings out good from evil, And loves to disappoint the Devil, Had predetermined to restore Twofold all Job had before, His children, camels, horses, cows—- Short-sighted Devil, not to take his spouse...
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Page 120 - Spoerer developed that demonstration further, that in the latter part of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth the northern hemisphere of the sun failed for many years to produce a single recorded spot.
Page 123 - County in the most public and lasting manner we can devise, commanding copies hereof to be printed and published, and one of them to be read in every church and chapel therein, and to be kept for ever as a record...
Page 79 - Master of the lievels, temp. Charles II., though he never was formally installed Court Jester. The following anecdote will show, at all events, that he deserved the appointment, even though he did not get it : When Louis XIV. showed him his pictures at Paris the King pointed out to him a picture of the Crucifixion between two portraits. "That on the right," added his Majesty, " is the Pope, and that on the left is myself." "I humbly thank your Majesty...