Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Volume 167F. Jefferies, 1839 |
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... volume of my father's History of the Middle Ages , made rather prominent by italics . This induces me to send you a letter from the same gentleman to him on this volume , written a month after the date of the last entry , and several ...
... volume of my father's History of the Middle Ages , made rather prominent by italics . This induces me to send you a letter from the same gentleman to him on this volume , written a month after the date of the last entry , and several ...
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... volumes have long been in extensive circulation : but there was a very considerable drawback to the suc- cessful ... volume with the startling assertion , " I cannot under- stand the rage manifested by the greater part of the world ...
... volumes have long been in extensive circulation : but there was a very considerable drawback to the suc- cessful ... volume with the startling assertion , " I cannot under- stand the rage manifested by the greater part of the world ...
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... volume , after extracting his account of the Irish coinage of George IV . which it will be seen was confined to copper : " GEORGE IV . " 1822 , 1823. In these years a coin- age of pennies and half - pence for Ireland , engraved by ...
... volume , after extracting his account of the Irish coinage of George IV . which it will be seen was confined to copper : " GEORGE IV . " 1822 , 1823. In these years a coin- age of pennies and half - pence for Ireland , engraved by ...
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... volume before us , that , " Within the first thirty years of the sixteenth century the practice of illustrat- ing books with wood - cuts seems to have been more general than at any other period , scarcely excepting the present ; for ...
... volume before us , that , " Within the first thirty years of the sixteenth century the practice of illustrat- ing books with wood - cuts seems to have been more general than at any other period , scarcely excepting the present ; for ...
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... volumes , the Apocalypse , the History of the Virgin , and Christ's Passion ; but we shall prefer to extract his ... volume of the present series of our Magazine , Feb. 1834. The authors before us give their opinion that Mr. Douce ...
... volumes , the Apocalypse , the History of the Virgin , and Christ's Passion ; but we shall prefer to extract his ... volume of the present series of our Magazine , Feb. 1834. The authors before us give their opinion that Mr. Douce ...
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Page 487 - ANCIENT HISTORY. — Containing the Political History, Geographical Position, and Social State of the Principal Nations of Antiquity, carefully digested from the Ancient Writers, and illustrated by the Discoveries of Modern Scholars and Travelers.
Page 270 - I could have comfort to give myself over to the service of a mistress that was in awe of such a man. I spake, what of grief and choler, as much against him as I could, and I think he, standing at the door, might very well hear the worst that I spoke of himself. In the end, I saw she was resolved to defend him and to cross me.
Page 258 - I found above any of my equals at the hands of those courteous and learned men, the fellows of that college wherein I spent some years: who at my parting, after I had taken two degrees, as the manner is, signified many ways how much better it would content them that I would stay; as by many letters full of kindness and loving respect, both before that time, and long after, I was assured of their singular good affection towards me.
Page 395 - a bold impertinent fellow.. .a perpetual talker and made a noise like a drum in a room. So one time at a tavern Sir Walter Raleigh beats him and seals up his mouth (that is his upper and nether beard) with hard wax.
Page 495 - Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Page 258 - I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers: every house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence.
Page 340 - King George in a fright, Lest Gibbon should write The story of Britain's disgrace, Thought no means more sure His pen to secure, Than to give the historian a place.
Page 84 - That the power of publishing such of its reports, votes, and proceedings as it shall deem necessary or conducive to the public interests, is an essential incident to the constitutional functions of Parliament, more especially of this house, as the representative portion of it.
Page 188 - That an humble Address be presented to her Majesty praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to give directions that the remains of the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone be interred at the public charge, and that a monument be erected in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, with an inscription expressive of the public admiration and attachment and of the high sense entertained of his rare and splendid...
Page 267 - God save your Majesty ! God save your Majesty !' Then the Queen turned to us and said ' God bless you all, my good people...