Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works, Zväzok 2

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Longmans, Green, 1872
 

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Strana 19 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Strana 539 - Ecclesiastical History of the Second and Third Centuries, Illustrated from the Writings of Tertullian.
Strana 213 - Potter, while a tutor of Trinity college, I knew right well, whipt his pupil with his sword by his side, when he came to take his leave of him to go to the inns of court.
Strana 186 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk shot with silver threads; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness; instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels. As she went along in all this state and magnificence, she spoke very graciously, first to one, then to another (whether foreign ministers, or those who attend for different reasons), in English, French and Italian ; for besides being...
Strana 160 - For while with their knife, which they hold in one hand, they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke, which they hold in the other hand, upon the same dish.
Strana 298 - FODINAE REGALES. Or The History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England. Wales, and the English Pale in Ireland.
Strana 453 - In short, we have known that when some persons have been bitten by serpents, the scrapings of leaves of books that were brought out of Ireland, being put into water, and given them to drink, have immediately expelled the spreading poison, and assuaged the swelling.
Strana 615 - tis the worst thing in the world for the complexion; nat that I pretend to be a beau: but a man must endeavour to look wholesome, lest he make so nauseous a figure in the side-bax, the ladies should be compelled to turn their eyes upon the play.
Strana 328 - What ! a thread-bare rascal, a beggar, a slave that never drunk out of better than piss-pot metal " in his life ! and he to deprave and abuse the virtue of an herb so generally received in the courts of princes, the chambers of nobles, the bowers of sweet ladies, the cabins of soldiers ! — Roger, away with him ? 'Od's precious I say, go to.
Strana 10 - Greek speech to be still retained " (Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages and Religions through the chief Parts of the World, written by Edw.

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