Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its Borders, Volume 32

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The Club, 1902
 

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Page 3 - For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Page 5 - The desire to instruct au ignorant and impressionable people through the eye, for everywhere " Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures, Quam quse sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus," led to the introduction of devices and tricks, by means of which, as in miracle plays and puppet shows, a greater realism was produced, and deeper emotions excited of pity, awe, and devotion. Mr. Walcott quotes the statement that "many superstitions were connected with Roods ' with rolling eyes and sweating brows, with...
Page 190 - Edward by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine...
Page 184 - ... least 3,000 feet, and broad as the area is which they occupy, they form but a local variety of the Wenlock formation, and apparently, where the grits thin and disappear, instead of being overlapped by the shale, they rather pass by lithological gradations into strata of a shaly character.
Page 3 - Far be it from me to glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world hath been crucified unto me and I unto the world...
Page 307 - Then afterwards, if he cuts beyond the edge of the ditch, which is the extremity of his land, he cuts into his neighbour's land, and is a trespasser. No rule about 4 ft.
Page 285 - Besides this excellent convenience of conveying letters, and men on horseback, there is of late such an admirable commodiousness, both for men and women of better rank, to travel from London, to...
Page 206 - True and Perfect Relation of the whole Transaction concerning the Petition of the Six Counties of South Wales, and the County of Monmouth...
Page 116 - An act to amend and render more effectual an act passed in the last session of parliament, for enabling spiritual persons to exchange their parsonage houses or glebe lands, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Page 22 - ... he came to a great thicket, when he was amazed to find a virgin of surprising beauty engaged in deep devotion, with the hare he had been pursuing under her robe, boldly facing the dogs, who had retired to a distance howling, notwithstanding all the efforts of the sportsman to make them seize their prey.

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