Library for the people. (Division 1). The wonders of nature and art. (Division 2). (A display of the arts of life and society). (Division 3). Worthies of the United Kingdom. (Division 4) [entitled] The chimney corner companion, Tema 21827 |
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... called Cymry ( pronounced Kumri ) : they are so named in all that remains of the ancient British literature . The Welsh , who are their descendants , have always called themselves Cymri ; and have given the same appellation to the ...
... called Cymry ( pronounced Kumri ) : they are so named in all that remains of the ancient British literature . The Welsh , who are their descendants , have always called themselves Cymri ; and have given the same appellation to the ...
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... called Clas Merddin ( literally the country with sea cliffs ) , and afterwards Fel Ynis ( the island of honey ) . When the government had been imposed upon it by Prydain , the son of Aedd the Great , it was called Yyns Prydain ( the ...
... called Clas Merddin ( literally the country with sea cliffs ) , and afterwards Fel Ynis ( the island of honey ) . When the government had been imposed upon it by Prydain , the son of Aedd the Great , it was called Yyns Prydain ( the ...
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... called Ynys Prydain , the Isle of Prydain ; which is its present denomination in Welsh , and which the Greeks and Romans seem to have extended into Britannia . It was afterwards visited by two foreign tribes of Cimmerian origin , the ...
... called Ynys Prydain , the Isle of Prydain ; which is its present denomination in Welsh , and which the Greeks and Romans seem to have extended into Britannia . It was afterwards visited by two foreign tribes of Cimmerian origin , the ...
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... called to their remembrance the glory of their ancestors , who had driven Cæsar out of Britain , and freed their country from the Roman yoke . The Britons , with loud acclamations , declared they were ready to shed the last drop of ...
... called to their remembrance the glory of their ancestors , who had driven Cæsar out of Britain , and freed their country from the Roman yoke . The Britons , with loud acclamations , declared they were ready to shed the last drop of ...
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... called the Port of Hamo , quickly found his uncle . Imme- diately after this junction , Arthur and his kinsman marched to oblige the Saxons to raise the siege of Kaerlind coit , now called Lincoln . The battle was bloody and obstinate ...
... called the Port of Hamo , quickly found his uncle . Imme- diately after this junction , Arthur and his kinsman marched to oblige the Saxons to raise the siege of Kaerlind coit , now called Lincoln . The battle was bloody and obstinate ...
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Página 368 - MY loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Página 284 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand!
Página 215 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Página 284 - Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Página 306 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Página 250 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 281 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Página 285 - They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms: And then the whining school-boy with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school.
Página 281 - It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the playhouse. He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank ; but his admirable wit, and the natural turn of it to the stage, soon distinguished him, if not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer.
Página 345 - ... them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.