Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Bind 13 |
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... kind suitable to his years and prospects . He wrote a translation , we are told , of the Commentaries of Cæsar , and read with avidity the Lives of Plutarch , a book which is celebrated as having kindled the enthusiasm of many heroic ...
... kind suitable to his years and prospects . He wrote a translation , we are told , of the Commentaries of Cæsar , and read with avidity the Lives of Plutarch , a book which is celebrated as having kindled the enthusiasm of many heroic ...
Side 11
... kind of skin on his hands , to keep them white , and wearing cosmetic paste on his face , was not a man to put down such an association , although , with the instinct of a monarch , he might dislike it . Accordingly , the League was ...
... kind of skin on his hands , to keep them white , and wearing cosmetic paste on his face , was not a man to put down such an association , although , with the instinct of a monarch , he might dislike it . Accordingly , the League was ...
Side 4
... kind . They can roll themselves into a spiral form , with the head slightly elevated in the centre ; they can erect themselves almost perpendicularly , resting on the tail ; can raise themselves about one - third of their length ...
... kind . They can roll themselves into a spiral form , with the head slightly elevated in the centre ; they can erect themselves almost perpendicularly , resting on the tail ; can raise themselves about one - third of their length ...
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... kind of heap , and deposited about seventy eggs . Ill as she evidently felt , Bess nevertheless tried her best to hatch the eggs , but without avail ; they all turned bad , and were eventually removed from under her ; and for a time ...
... kind of heap , and deposited about seventy eggs . Ill as she evidently felt , Bess nevertheless tried her best to hatch the eggs , but without avail ; they all turned bad , and were eventually removed from under her ; and for a time ...
Side 15
... kind it can catch . The movements of S Blind - worm ( Anguis fragilis ) . this reptile are so slow that it cannot get out of the way of danger , and thus it has been rashly and ignorantly assumed that it is either deaf or blind , or ...
... kind it can catch . The movements of S Blind - worm ( Anguis fragilis ) . this reptile are so slow that it cannot get out of the way of danger , and thus it has been rashly and ignorantly assumed that it is either deaf or blind , or ...
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Admiral de Coligny Andrayne army Bécard began benevolent bite bonnie Braes busk called Catholic charmer child Confalonieri daughter dear death distress door Dr Fulton Duke Duke of Guise Duke of Orleans eggs Eustache eyes father feelings felt frae France Frank French friends girl grief hand happy head heard heart Helen Gray Henry hope Huguenots Jacobin Club Jane Jeanne Jeanne d'Albret Jessie Jessie's kind king of Navarre lady League length live looked Louis Louis XVI Madame de Chavilhac maun mind Minghini morning mother Napoleon never night noble Paris Pauline person poor prince Prince of Condé prison Protestants Prussia reptile Robin Saint-Servan Salvotti seemed serpents shew sister snake St Germain-en-Laye suffering Sully thee thou thought tion Todlaw Mains took Uncle Joshua viper whilst wife woman words Yarrow young Logie
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Side 21 - Now by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen of France, Charge for the golden lilies now — upon them with the lance! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Side 3 - Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Side 22 - D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale ; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags, and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and, all along our van, " Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe : Down, down, with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Side 27 - ... grown cauld to me. When we came in by Glasgow town We were a comely sight to see : My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I mysell in cramasie. But had I wist, before I kist...
Side 3 - Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,
Side 20 - Full fifteen stane o' Spanish iron, They hae laid a' right sair on me ; Wi' locks and keys I am fast bound Into this dungeon dark and dreirie.
Side 2 - Wi ae lock o his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare. "Mony a one for him makes mane, But nane sail ken where he is gane; Oer his white banes when they are bare, The wind sail blaw for evermair.
Side 31 - Lang maun she weep, lang maun she, maun she weep, Lang maun she weep with dule and sorrow, And lang maun I nae mair weil be seen Pu'ing the birks on the Braes of Yarrow.