Queer Questions and Ready Replies: A Collection of Four Hundred Questions in History, Geography, Biography, Mythology, Philosophy, Natural History, Science, Philology, Etc., EtcNew England publishing Company, 1887 - 177 páginas |
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Queer Questions and Ready Replies: A Collection of Four Hundred Questions in ... Samuel Grant Oliphant Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 173 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Página 132 - The Countess Godiva, bearing an extraordinary affection to this place, often and earnestly besought her husband that, for the love of God and the Blessed Virgin, he would free it from that grievous servitude whereunto it was subject; but he, rebuking her for importuning him in a...
Página 167 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Página 114 - This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him ; male and female created he them ; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Página 81 - A gentle sound, an awful light! Three angels bear the Holy Grail: With folded feet, in stoles of white, On sleeping wings they sail. Ah, blessed vision! blood of God! My spirit beats her mortal bars, As down dark tides the glory slides, And star-like mingles with the stars. When on my goodly charger borne Thro' dreaming towns I go, The cock crows ere the Christmas morn, The streets are dumb with snow.
Página 145 - Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
Página 45 - Seven Champions of Christendom. St. George, the patron saint of England; St. Denis, of France; St. James, of Spain ; St. Anthony, of Italy; St. Andrew, of Scotland; St. Patrick, of Ireland; and St. David, of Wales. They are often alluded to by old writers. " The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom...
Página 129 - something for them to sing in the morning," and he retired for that purpose from the table, where the Dean and a few friends were sitting, to a distant part of the room. In a short time the Dean enquired, " What have you .written ? " Heber, having then composed the three first verses, read them over. " There — there, that will do very well...
Página 152 - How doth a man revive again in the world to come ? He answered and said, From Luz, in the backbone. Saith he to him, Demonstrate this to me. Then he took Luz, a little bone out of the back-bone, and put it in water, and it was not steeped ; he put it into the fire, and it was not...