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Page 28 - Who, best of all Philosophers, understood the powers of the human mind ; the nature, end, and bounds of civil government ; and with equal courage and sagacity, refuted the slavish systems of usurped authority over the rights, the consciences, or the reason of mankind.
Page 183 - ... votes of the members present, and in case of an equal division of votes the chairman shall have a casting vote in addition to his vote as a member of the committee.
Page 28 - Italian tongue umbrellas, that is, things that minister shadow unto them for shelter against the scorching heat of the sun. These are made of leather something answerable to the form of a little canopy, and hooped in the inside with divers little wooden hoops that extend the umbrella in a pretty large compass. They are used especially by horsemen, who carry them in their hands when they ride, fastening the end of the handle upon one of their thighs, and they impart so long a shadow unto them that...
Page 22 - Taunton bore him, London bred him, Piety train'd him, virtue led him ; Earth enrich'd him, heaven cares't him, Tauuton blest him, London blest him. This thankful town, that mindful city, Share his piety and his pity. What he gave, and how he gave it, Ask the poor, and you shall have it.
Page 43 - The Praise of Hempseed, with the Voyage of Mr. Roger Bird and the Writer hereof , in a Boat of Brown Paper, from London to Quinborough in Kent. As also a Farewell to the Matchless Deceased Mr. Thomas Coriat. Concluding with Commendations of the famous River of Thames.
Page 41 - Mr. Thomas Coriat, to his friends in England, sendeth greeting : from Agra, the Capitall City of the Dominion of the Great Mogoll in the Easterne India, the last of October, 1616.
Page 59 - The god of prophecy ; 4. The god of song and music ; 5. The god who protects the flocks and cattle ; 6. The god who delights in the foundation of towns and the establishment of civil constitutions. It is as the rural god of flocks and cattle that he is here mentioned. — 36. Grandia. Large grains were selected for seed. — 37.
Page 44 - ... fork which they hold in their other hand upon the same dish, so that whatsoever he be that sitting in the company of any...
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Page 6 - It is probable, therefore, that the land in the vicinity of the villa was reclaimed and brought into cultivation in the second half of the 3rd and the beginning of the 4th century ; at all events, it had then been made fit for permanent occupation.