Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall: Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in NorfolkN. Douglas, 1927 - 202 pages |
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... themselves ; Unto thefe of our Urnes none here can pretend relation , and can only behold the Reliques of those perfons , who in their life giving the Laws unto their predeceffors , after long obfcurity , now lye at their mercies . But ...
... themselves ; Unto thefe of our Urnes none here can pretend relation , and can only behold the Reliques of those perfons , who in their life giving the Laws unto their predeceffors , after long obfcurity , now lye at their mercies . But ...
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... themselves with Trees , but by the attendance ef Aviaries , Fish Ponds , and all variety of Animals , they made their gardens the Epitome of the earth , and fome refembiance of the fecular shows of old . That we conjoyn these parts of ...
... themselves with Trees , but by the attendance ef Aviaries , Fish Ponds , and all variety of Animals , they made their gardens the Epitome of the earth , and fome refembiance of the fecular shows of old . That we conjoyn these parts of ...
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... themselves alive , and thought it the no- bleft way to end their dayes in fire ; ac- cording to the expreffion of the Indian , burning himfelf at Athens , in his last words upon the pyre unto the amazed fpectators , Thus I make my felfe ...
... themselves alive , and thought it the no- bleft way to end their dayes in fire ; ac- cording to the expreffion of the Indian , burning himfelf at Athens , in his last words upon the pyre unto the amazed fpectators , Thus I make my felfe ...
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... themselves , or Brittains Romanised , which observed the Romane cuftomes . Nor is it improbable that the Romanes early poffeffed this Countrey ; for though we meet not with fuch ftrict particulars of of these parts , before the new ...
... themselves , or Brittains Romanised , which observed the Romane cuftomes . Nor is it improbable that the Romanes early poffeffed this Countrey ; for though we meet not with fuch ftrict particulars of of these parts , before the new ...
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... themselves were Hominum early in no fmall Numbers , Seventy infinitamul Thousand with their affociats flain by creberrima- Boadicea , affords a fure account . And que adificia though many Roman habitations are now ferè Galli- cis ...
... themselves were Hominum early in no fmall Numbers , Seventy infinitamul Thousand with their affociats flain by creberrima- Boadicea , affords a fure account . And que adificia though many Roman habitations are now ferè Galli- cis ...
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