A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Forming the Library of Clarence H. Clark ...

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Page 904 - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...
Page 863 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 611 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 811 - The perfect and exact Coppy, with diuerse things Printed, that the length of the Play would not beare in the Presentment.
Page 861 - And there appeared a great wonder in heaven ; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
Page 803 - An": 1584. to this || present 1624. || With the Procedings of those Severall Colonies || and the Accidents that befell them in all their || Journyes and Discoveries. || Also the Maps and Descriptions of all those || Countryes, their Commodities, people, || Government, Customes, and Religion || yet knowne. || Divided into sixe Bookes. || By Captaine Iohn Smith sometymes Governour || in those Countryes & Admirall || of New England.
Page 885 - Strength out of weakness. Or A glorious manifestation of the further progresse of the gospel amongst the Indians in NewEngland. Held forth in sundry letters from divers ministers and others to the corporation established by Parliament for promoting the gospel among the heathen in New-England; and to particular members thereof since the last treatise to that effect, formerly set forth by Mr Henry Whitfield late pastor of Gilford in NewEngland.
Page 929 - Typographia or the Printers Instructor, including an account of the origin of printing. With Biographical Notices of the Printers of England, from Caxton to the close of the Sixteenth Century: A Series of Ancient and Modern Alphabets, and Domesday characters, Together with an Elucidation of every Subject connected with the Art.
Page 690 - An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving upon copper and in wood, with an account of engravers and their works, from the invention of chalcography by Maso Finiguerra, to the time of Marc
Page 807 - But who is he, in closet close y-pent, Of sober face, with learned dust besprent?' Right well mine eyes arede the myster wight, On parchment scraps y-fed, and Wormius hight. To future ages may thy dulness last, As thou preserv'st the dulness of the past!

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