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... SHIP TRANSPORTING TROOPS FOR THE CONQUEST OF ENGLAND 110 ... 48 SAXON LANTERN ENGRAVED — FROM 50 STRUTT'S CHRONICLE 112 51 CATHERINE DOUGLAS BARRING THE DOOR 117 SPORTS OF THE FEUDAL PERIOD 122 52 QUEEN PHILIPPA BEFORE THE KING 131 53 A ...
... SHIP TRANSPORTING TROOPS FOR THE CONQUEST OF ENGLAND 110 ... 48 SAXON LANTERN ENGRAVED — FROM 50 STRUTT'S CHRONICLE 112 51 CATHERINE DOUGLAS BARRING THE DOOR 117 SPORTS OF THE FEUDAL PERIOD 122 52 QUEEN PHILIPPA BEFORE THE KING 131 53 A ...
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... ship- wreck ; the rest were long tossed on unknown seas ; and when they expected to find in their native country the end of their calamities , they were exposed to suffer greater calamities there than any which they had yet endured ...
... ship- wreck ; the rest were long tossed on unknown seas ; and when they expected to find in their native country the end of their calamities , they were exposed to suffer greater calamities there than any which they had yet endured ...
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... ships of war occasioned but a short delay . The maritime pro- vinces of the empire , Egypt , Phoenicia , and the coasts of the Euxine and Ęgean seas , were commanded to fit out , with all possible expedition , their whole naval strength ...
... ships of war occasioned but a short delay . The maritime pro- vinces of the empire , Egypt , Phoenicia , and the coasts of the Euxine and Ęgean seas , were commanded to fit out , with all possible expedition , their whole naval strength ...
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... camp , but in their ships . So the liberty of Athens and of Greece was preserved . TH G XERXES INE years after the battle of Marathon MARATHON - HOW ATHENS SAVED GREECE . 21 ANCIENT BRONZE HELMET POMPEIAN ARCHITECTURE-PORCH OF MANSION.
... camp , but in their ships . So the liberty of Athens and of Greece was preserved . TH G XERXES INE years after the battle of Marathon MARATHON - HOW ATHENS SAVED GREECE . 21 ANCIENT BRONZE HELMET POMPEIAN ARCHITECTURE-PORCH OF MANSION.
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... ships of war , and three thousand ships of burden , were at length ready to receive his com- mands . The former were of a larger size and firmer construction than any hitherto seen in the ancient world : they carried on board , at a ...
... ships of war , and three thousand ships of burden , were at length ready to receive his com- mands . The former were of a larger size and firmer construction than any hitherto seen in the ancient world : they carried on board , at a ...
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Page 213 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Page 298 - Hampstead's swarthy moor they started for the north; And on, and on, without a pause, untired they bounded still : All night from tower to tower they sprang ; they sprang from hill to hill...
Page 486 - Whatever fruits in different climes are found, That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die : These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Page 486 - While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows; And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign; Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vain; Though grave, yet trifling; zealous, yet untrue; And even in penance planning sins anew.
Page 268 - ... rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits "of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed...
Page 268 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men —the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 298 - And the broad streams of pikes and flags rushed down each roaring street: And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, As fast from every village round the horse came spurring in : And eastward straight, from wild Blackheath, the warlike errand went, And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent.
Page 298 - Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire. The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves : The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves : O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew : He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu.
Page 266 - If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.