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Sir John Young Walker MacAlister, Alfred William Pollard, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, Sir Frank Chalton Francis
Oxford University Press, 1926
 

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Pagina 222 - Travels INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD BY LEMUEL GULLIVER, First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships.
Pagina 178 - Let us not however make too much haste to despise our neighbours. Our own cathedrals are mouldering by unregarded dilapidation. It seems to be part of the despicable philosophy of the time to despise monuments of sacred magnificence, and we are in danger of doing that deliberately, which the Scots did not do but in the unsettled state of an imperfect constitution.
Pagina 206 - Night, for such as sought for me, to my peril, I fell off my Horse so dangerously, that I shall never recover it...
Pagina 357 - I take this present period of our English tung to be the verie height therof, bycause I find it so excellentlie well fined, both for the bodie of the tung it self, and for the customarie writing thereof, as either foren workmanship can give it glosse, or as homewrought hanling can give it grace.
Pagina 156 - An Actual Survey of all the Principal Roads of England and Wales ; described by One Hundred Maps from Copper Plates,.
Pagina 189 - We beg to inform collectors that we have a large stock of rare Early English Books, Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters Our monthly catalogue containing first and early editions of the works of the Poets and Dramatists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, books on the Drama, History, Biography, &c., will be sent free on application.
Pagina 174 - Kingsford's considered opinion may be accepted that there has been too much readiness to undervalue the culture and civilization of the age. Certainly capacity to read and write was no longer an accomplishment confined to the clerical class. The wives and sisters of country gentlemen could often write as well as their husbands and brothers, and both they and their servants could and commonly did keep regular household accounts.
Pagina 204 - ... he thought he had not in his realm so many persons so honestly maintained in living by so little land and rent...
Pagina 50 - Newly corrected and / amended of such grosse faults as passed in / the first impression. London. Printed by Abell leffes, and are / to be sold by Edward White.

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