The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.Cassell & Company, 1886 - 527 pages |
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... Queen's Marriage - A Magistrate -- The Old Story Renewed -- The only Conservative Principle — Marriage of the Queen -Letter from Daniel Webster - Attempt upon the Queen's Life- Church Extension - Chimney Sweeps - Early Legislation ...
... Queen's Marriage - A Magistrate -- The Old Story Renewed -- The only Conservative Principle — Marriage of the Queen -Letter from Daniel Webster - Attempt upon the Queen's Life- Church Extension - Chimney Sweeps - Early Legislation ...
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... Queen Elizabeth , and had inherited and amassed considerable wealth . Dying in 1619 , he was succeeded by his son , John Cooper , who has been described as " very lovely and graceful both in face and person , of a moderate stature ...
... Queen Elizabeth , and had inherited and amassed considerable wealth . Dying in 1619 , he was succeeded by his son , John Cooper , who has been described as " very lovely and graceful both in face and person , of a moderate stature ...
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... Queen Elizabeth an account of the battle . He was a man who " had been for wisdom , courage , experience , skill in weapon , agility and strength of body , scarce paralleled in his age ; of a large mind in all his actions , his person ...
... Queen Elizabeth an account of the battle . He was a man who " had been for wisdom , courage , experience , skill in weapon , agility and strength of body , scarce paralleled in his age ; of a large mind in all his actions , his person ...
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... Queen Anne , when he made himself conspicuous by his zeal in the House of Lords , he never again took any part in public life , but devoted himself exclusively to literature . He published , in quick succession for those times , his ...
... Queen Anne , when he made himself conspicuous by his zeal in the House of Lords , he never again took any part in public life , but devoted himself exclusively to literature . He published , in quick succession for those times , his ...
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... queens who used it as a hunting lodge when visiting the Chase . A few miles further afield is the market town of Wimborne , or Wimborne Minster , with its exquisite and venerable collegiate church , where lie the remains of royal and ...
... queens who used it as a hunting lodge when visiting the Chase . A few miles further afield is the market town of Wimborne , or Wimborne Minster , with its exquisite and venerable collegiate church , where lie the remains of royal and ...
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Page 494 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 139 - For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places: Turns the sky in the high window, blank and reeling, Turns the long light that...
Page 171 - Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Page 184 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes ', nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 275 - ... them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Page 522 - This is the day which the LORD hath made ; Let us rejoice and be glad in it...
Page 380 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 85 - That this house will, early in the next session of parliament, take into its most serious consideration the state of the laws affecting his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in Great Britain and Ireland ; with a view to such a final -and conciliatory adjustment, "as may be conducive to the peace and strength of the united kingdom ; to the stability of the protestant establishment ; and to the general satisfaction and concord of all classes of his Majesty's subjects.
Page 512 - For GOD speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then He openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, that He may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Page 172 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.