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... public safety : - Dogb . If you meet a thief , you may suspect him , by virtue of your office , to be no true man ; and for such kind of men , the less you meddle or make with them , why , the more is for your honesty . 2 Watch . If we ...
... public safety : - Dogb . If you meet a thief , you may suspect him , by virtue of your office , to be no true man ; and for such kind of men , the less you meddle or make with them , why , the more is for your honesty . 2 Watch . If we ...
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... public against " false measures , " ale should be sold only in sealed vessels of the standard capacity ; and the viola- tion of the law was to be presented at the " Court Leet , " or " View of Frankpledge , " held in every hundred ...
... public against " false measures , " ale should be sold only in sealed vessels of the standard capacity ; and the viola- tion of the law was to be presented at the " Court Leet , " or " View of Frankpledge , " held in every hundred ...
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... public ; whereas in truth and in fact , he made it a stipulation on his going to Ireland that he should receive no pension - and pension he never did receive — and , without pension or place , for years after he returned from Ireland he ...
... public ; whereas in truth and in fact , he made it a stipulation on his going to Ireland that he should receive no pension - and pension he never did receive — and , without pension or place , for years after he returned from Ireland he ...
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... public from his services . - Lord C. ought to speak tenderly of Biographers , but I am afraid that they may sometimes be justly compared to the hogs of Westphalia , who without discrimination pick up what falls from one another . who ...
... public from his services . - Lord C. ought to speak tenderly of Biographers , but I am afraid that they may sometimes be justly compared to the hogs of Westphalia , who without discrimination pick up what falls from one another . who ...
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... Public Buildings , and Places connected with interesting and historical asso- ciations . Second Edition . Post 8vo . 16s . Modern London . A complete Guide for Visitors to the Metropolis . Map . 16mo . 5s . Westminster Abbey . Its Art ...
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Page 75 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a {grammar-school ; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 88 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : if the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that ; but if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself : argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. Second Clo. But is this law ? First Clo. Ay, marry, is't ; crowner's quest law. Second Clo. Will you ha' the truth on't ? If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out...
Page 106 - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...
Page 27 - Seneca, let blood line by line and page by page, at length must needs die to our stage...
Page 21 - History of Rome. From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With the History of Literature and Art.
Page 51 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error by the same example Will rush into the state; it cannot be.
Page 73 - O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words ! I marvel, thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus : thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Page 6 - BUNBURY'S (CJF) Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope; with Excursions into the Interior, and Notes on the Natural History and Native Tribes of the Country.
Page 38 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He, that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips. Like man new made.
Page 93 - I will, a round, unvarnished tale deliver, Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms, What conjuration, and what mighty magic — For such proceedings I am charged withal — I won his daughter with.