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Side 163
... Bruce , in his Travels to discover the Source of the Nile . ] T HERE began then the fil thiest of all ceremonies that ever difgraced any nation ftiling themselves Chriftians ; a ceremony that cannot be put in terms fuffi- ciently decent ...
... Bruce , in his Travels to discover the Source of the Nile . ] T HERE began then the fil thiest of all ceremonies that ever difgraced any nation ftiling themselves Chriftians ; a ceremony that cannot be put in terms fuffi- ciently decent ...
Side 191
... Bruce , brother to lord Elgin , fecond to Mr. Rofs , and a Mr. Hamilton , fecond to Mr. Reid , gave the following statement of this un- fortunate rencounter . " Mr. William Rofs , and lieutenant Reid , having called upon us to accom ...
... Bruce , brother to lord Elgin , fecond to Mr. Rofs , and a Mr. Hamilton , fecond to Mr. Reid , gave the following statement of this un- fortunate rencounter . " Mr. William Rofs , and lieutenant Reid , having called upon us to accom ...
Side 193
... Bruce . ] TH HE difcovery of the Source of the Nile being the grand object of Mr. Bruce's extraordinary journey , we fhall - indeed we must pals over a thousand incidents which preceded and led to this event . On the 27th of October ...
... Bruce . ] TH HE difcovery of the Source of the Nile being the grand object of Mr. Bruce's extraordinary journey , we fhall - indeed we must pals over a thousand incidents which preceded and led to this event . On the 27th of October ...
Side 194
... Bruce reached them without affecting any hurry . After fome altercation with one of his attendants who knew the fitu- ation of the country , he took Mr. Bruce round to the fouth fide of the church , out of the grove of trees which ...
... Bruce reached them without affecting any hurry . After fome altercation with one of his attendants who knew the fitu- ation of the country , he took Mr. Bruce round to the fouth fide of the church , out of the grove of trees which ...
Side 195
... Bruce defcribes the fources of the Nile , which have , as he says , remained to our days as unknown as they were to antiquity ; no good or genuine voucher having yet been produced capable of proving that they were before difcovered , or ...
... Bruce defcribes the fources of the Nile , which have , as he says , remained to our days as unknown as they were to antiquity ; no good or genuine voucher having yet been produced capable of proving that they were before difcovered , or ...
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Side 258 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Side 241 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Side 449 - Paris told your king, that in calling the states together, he had nothing to fear but the prodigal excess of their zeal in providing for the support of the throne.
Side 241 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Side 451 - ... abused shape of the vilest of women. After they had been made to taste, drop by drop, more than the bitterness of death, in the slow torture of a journey of twelve miles, protracted to six hours, they were, under a guard, composed of those very soldiers who had thus conducted them through this famous triumph, lodged in one of the old palaces of Paris, now converted into a Bastile for kings.
Side 427 - We wished at the period of the Revolution, and do now wish, to derive all we possess as an inheritance from our forefathers. Upon that body and stock of inheritance we have taken care not to inoculate any cyon alien to the nature of the original plant.
Side 334 - A large broad fillet was bound upon their forehead, and tied behind their head. In the middle of this was a horn, or a conical piece of silver, gilt, about four inches long, much in the shape of our common candle extinguishers. This is called kirn, or horn, and is only worn in reviews or parades after victory.
Side 458 - They are as usefully employed as if they worked from dawn to dark in the innumerable servile, degrading, unseemly, unmanly, and often most unwholesome and pestiferous occupations, to which by the social economy so many wretches are inevitably doomed. If it were not...
Side 452 - They can see, without pain or grudging, an archbishop precede a duke. They can see a bishop of Durham, or a bishop of Winchester, in possession of ten thousand pounds a year; and cannot conceive why it is in worse hands than estates to the like amount in the hands of this earl, or that squire...
Side 98 - And strange as it may appear, I have no doubt he thought the resolve necessary, for his disquietude on the subject of money was now continual. When he went to bed, he would put five or ten guineas into a bureau, and then full of his money, after he had retired to rest, and sometimes in the middle of the night, he would come down to see if it was there.