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... WORD " GROG " - ANCIENT ALMS- BASINS . Mr. Editor , - As a sailor's son I beg to answer your correspondent LEGOUR'S query concerning the origin of the word " grog , " so famous in the lips of our gallant tars . Jack loves to give a pet ...
... WORD " GROG " - ANCIENT ALMS- BASINS . Mr. Editor , - As a sailor's son I beg to answer your correspondent LEGOUR'S query concerning the origin of the word " grog , " so famous in the lips of our gallant tars . Jack loves to give a pet ...
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... word used to signify both thin cakes of ice and the bursting of those cakes . " - DYCE . Mr. Dyce may perhaps have heard the word floe ( plural floes ) applied to floating sheet - ice , as it is to be found so applied extensively in ...
... word used to signify both thin cakes of ice and the bursting of those cakes . " - DYCE . Mr. Dyce may perhaps have heard the word floe ( plural floes ) applied to floating sheet - ice , as it is to be found so applied extensively in ...
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... words were laws , all things being acted according to his desire . " -p . 76. of Foulis Hist . of Plots of our ... word of expos- tulation upon this . It is perfectly perfectly true that the writing of the MS . which has given rise ...
... words were laws , all things being acted according to his desire . " -p . 76. of Foulis Hist . of Plots of our ... word of expos- tulation upon this . It is perfectly perfectly true that the writing of the MS . which has given rise ...
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... word " tricesima , " the explanation of which is truly ridiculous ; under " berefellarii , " the commentary is positively comic ; and many other instances might be cited . At the same time , it would be presumptuous to speak otherwise ...
... word " tricesima , " the explanation of which is truly ridiculous ; under " berefellarii , " the commentary is positively comic ; and many other instances might be cited . At the same time , it would be presumptuous to speak otherwise ...
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... word itself , and yet pronounces the very common way of spelling it improper . What reference to , or connexion with , mushrooms has the word ? - and why Catsup , with the inference that it is synonymous with Catchup ? G. " Let me make ...
... word itself , and yet pronounces the very common way of spelling it improper . What reference to , or connexion with , mushrooms has the word ? - and why Catsup , with the inference that it is synonymous with Catchup ? G. " Let me make ...
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Página 38 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains in cradle of the rude imperious surge ; and in the visitation of the winds, who take the ruffian billows by the top, curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them with deafening clamours in the slippery clouds...
Página 129 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Página 350 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And...
Página 177 - For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.
Página 201 - Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the bounding steed; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But kings in wit may want discerning spirit.
Página 38 - Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Página 477 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Página 438 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 38 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Página 385 - He that questioneth much shall learn much, and content much ; but especially if he apply his questions to the skill of the persons whom he asketh ; for he shall give them occasion to please themselves in speaking, and himself shall continually gather knowledge. But let his questions not be troublesome, for that is fit for a poser.