The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1843 - English literature |
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... keeping a game of swans , deductus cygnorum , or , as it more rarely runs in the old law - Latin volatus cygnorum , is manifested by the grant of a Cygninota or swan - mark , which is a freehold of in- heritance , and may be granted ...
... keeping a game of swans , deductus cygnorum , or , as it more rarely runs in the old law - Latin volatus cygnorum , is manifested by the grant of a Cygninota or swan - mark , which is a freehold of in- heritance , and may be granted ...
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... keeping of the Great Bridge in repair , which hath such large revenues belonging unto it , with a particular stately seal , which of old had the effigies of Thomas of Becket ( a Londoner born ) upon it , with this in- scription in the ...
... keeping of the Great Bridge in repair , which hath such large revenues belonging unto it , with a particular stately seal , which of old had the effigies of Thomas of Becket ( a Londoner born ) upon it , with this in- scription in the ...
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... keeping of his household book on such oc- casions , if he did not enter the items of the account with his own hand , both on this happy occasion , and when Roger , eldest son , and after- wards heir of Sir Thomas Rockley , of Rockley ...
... keeping of his household book on such oc- casions , if he did not enter the items of the account with his own hand , both on this happy occasion , and when Roger , eldest son , and after- wards heir of Sir Thomas Rockley , of Rockley ...
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... keep in the juices , and a stiff meal paste should be laid on the breast , the other parts being covered with whited- brown paper about a quarter of an hour before the swan " is enough , ” as the cooks say , the paste must be taken off ...
... keep in the juices , and a stiff meal paste should be laid on the breast , the other parts being covered with whited- brown paper about a quarter of an hour before the swan " is enough , ” as the cooks say , the paste must be taken off ...
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... keeping guard , and ready to do battle against all comers ; yet thinking no scorn to take the mother's place ... keep with their parents during the first winter ; but , on the return of spring , the latter show their cygnets the ...
... keeping guard , and ready to do battle against all comers ; yet thinking no scorn to take the mother's place ... keep with their parents during the first winter ; but , on the return of spring , the latter show their cygnets the ...
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Page 126 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 24. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 98 - Now might I do it, pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't...
Page 128 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 179 - Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, Eating his Christmas pie. He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum, And said,
Page 128 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Page 128 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 344 - Tired of exposing such folly, we walked out the other day, and saw a bright cloud resting on the bosom of the blue expanse, which reminded us of what we had seen in some picture in the Louvre. We were suddenly roused from our reverie by recollecting that till we had answered...
Page 98 - Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? Ha! Swounds, I should take it, for it cannot be But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal.
Page 395 - Exulting, rich beyond the wealth of kings, I felt a sense of pain when I beheld The silent trees, and saw the intruding sky. — Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades In gentleness of heart; with gentle hand Touch — for there is a spirit in the woods.
Page 127 - And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.