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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, colonel, General Burrows said, as they were smoking their cigars after dinner," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose he is like me, Colonel Ripon said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear that the trouble is serious, General Burrows said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The troops Ayoub is bringing with him have not yet met us in the field. The population on the road is wild and fanatical, in the extreme; and will, no doubt, join him to a man. O...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Yossouf, where have you laid the tiffin?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have spread it, sahib, on a level piece of ground, in the shade of the chief's house. He did not seem disposed to be civil and, indeed, I thought that it would be more pleasant out of doo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should recommend that, as soon as tiffin is over, you should start for the camp; for I don't think it is quite safe, here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They would never think of attacking us, Yossouf, with our force within an easy day's march." }, { "from...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are scowling, sulky-looking brutes, he said, looking at a group of natives, who stood watching them, with lowering eyes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you know, Hammond, these Ghazis do attack us, in all sorts of places--as I have found, to my cost--and t...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I for one don't mean to move, till it gets a bit cooler. If these fellows want to attack us, they have got the chance, now; and there is no more reason they should do it, three hours hence, than when we are having our breakfast, quietly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Yossouf, what is it? Have you learned anything?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir, nothing. But the people no longer speak to me freely. They must have guessed, when they saw me speaking to you, that I was warning you; but I don't think things are right. T...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But as we said before, Gale, Fortescue urged," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps they may think we shall all take a nap, after our tiffin, Will replied;" } ]
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, boys, we had better do as Gale tells us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's right, Will said, cheerfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And look here, if we get away from here without any disturbance, and find it all right, we can halt agai...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Two large parties are coming, master; one down the valley, and the other across the hills. They have got flags with them, and I am sure they are going to attack us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ask the sahibs, he said to Yossouf," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have duties at the camp, and must return at once." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It looks as if you were not pleased with the hospitality of our village, he said," }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Will shouted," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! Fortescue, are you hit?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am done for! the young officer replied, faintly;" } ]
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be careful! Will exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't show a head above the roof, or at a loophole, or you will get a bullet in your brain, to a certainty. Stand well back, so that they can't see you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hammond, you had better go down to Fortescue, at present. One of the Syces can take Yossouf's place on guard over the women, and he can help you. The lad is a good nurse, but I fear there is nothing to be done for the poor fellow." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have handed his revolver to one of the Syces, and his gun to the other. Your man, Yossouf, has a revolver." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What on earth are we to do now, Gale? Plater asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have been right thus far a...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got it!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will get it, if you don't mind, Hammond said, dryly; as a bullet passed through one of the loopholes, and struck the wall an inch or two from Will's head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what is it?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Will said at last," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How many are there of you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seven," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are the children to come?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We may take away the babies, but the three boys are to remain behind." } ]
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah! Will shouted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All safe?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "All safe, except Fortescue--who was killed at the first attack." } ]
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, you four men who brought the powder kegs, carry them inside this fort. We are going to blow it up, to give them a lesson." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is hot work," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is, indeed, the officer answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would be difficult to withdraw, now, Will said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would shake the confidence of the men. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Steady, men, steady!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your company has done good service, sir, he said to Captain Fletcher;" } ]
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God that is over, Captain Fletcher said, as he lifted his cap and wiped the perspiration from his forehead;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What on earth has become of the cavalry? They have done nothing to cover the retreat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They have ridden on ahead, the captain said, bitterly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Gale, he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sahib! the latter whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hear people moving below. I think there are thieves in the house." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you hurt?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thanks to you, I have escaped without hurt, Yossouf; and had it not been for your aid, they would assuredly have made an end of me. My pistol had fallen from my hand as they knocked me down and, on the ground, I could not ...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would have been hard work, sir, Will Gale said to Colonel Ripon, as they rode forward in rear of the fighting brigade," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are men in England who persist in shutting their eyes to the certain consequences of the Russian advance towards the northern frontier of Afghanistan; but the time will come when England will have to rue, bitterly, the infatuation and folly of her rulers. When that day arr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is a singularly fine young fellow--young Gale, I mean, Colonel Shepherd said;" } ]
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know anything of him, previous to the time of his enlisting? You told me he joined your regiment, on the day when it arrived at Calcutta. I know nothing of his history, before that. The subject never happened to occur, in conversation; and it was one upon which I naturall...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Naturally, he went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was greatly interested in the story and--expressing a wish to see the young fellow--he was brought off that evening, after mess, to the Euphrates; and told us how he had been wrecked on the island in a Dutch shi...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They tell me, he said, with a smile," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Strange, is it not, Colonel Ripon went on, arousing himself," } ]
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what is the matter, Ripon? Good heavens, are you ill?" } ]
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How old is he?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But what has that to do with it, my dear old friend? What is the matter with you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe, Shepherd, Colonel Ripon said solemnly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your son!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My wife had never been strong and, from that day, she gradually sank. As long as there was hope she kept up, for a time. I hoped all would go well; but three months afterwards she faded rapidly and, ere six months had passed from the loss of the child, I buried her, and came str...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, Shepherd! That is his step on the stairs. May God grant that he prove to be my son!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be calm, old friend, Colonel Shepherd said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will speak to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My son, my son!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I will enlist in the Guides. I shall be at home with them, for most of them belong to the Afghan tribes. I am young yet, not fully a man, and I have my life before me. Some day, perhaps, if things are quiet and prosperous at home, I will go back and end my days there." } ]
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your name is Mrs. Dickson, I think?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is Will Gale! she exclaimed, drawing back a step." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They said you were dead, years ago." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I am very much aliv...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! And here is Sam!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Sam! Who do you think this is?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it warn't that he be drowned and dead, long ago, he said, at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should say it was Wi...
21979
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am a captain, now; and my name is no longer Will Gale, but Tom Ripon, for I have found my real father--this gentleman, Colonel Ripon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who feels, Colonel Ripon went on," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, an' what income have you now?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sometime! how long did she expect to live, I wonder?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To F--s S. O--d," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Mr. Crewe, I'll thank you to mind your own business," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Notes and Queries" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When found, make a note of." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No Cross no Crown" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crowns have their Compass" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This Treatise concernynge the fruytful Saynges of David the King and prophete in the seven penytencyall psalmes, devyded in _ten_ sermons, was made and compyled by the ryght reverente fader in god Johan Fyssher, doctour of dyvinyte and bysshop of Rochester, at the exortacion and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The surest meanes for to attaine The perfect waye to endlesse blisse Are happie lief and to remaine W'thin ye church where virtue is; And if thy conscience be sae sounde To thinse thy faith is truth indeede Beware in thee noe schisme be founde That unitie may have her meede; If ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maria, glorious martyr and Queen of Scotland. It is conjectured these books were brought to Douai by the fugitive English Roman Catholic priests. In 1790 their collections were confiscated and given to the public library of Douai. It would be of interest to ascertain, if possibl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One that is fit to keep a Warehouse, be a Steward, or do any Business that can be supposed an intelligent Man that has been a Shopkeeper is fit for, and can give any Security that can be desired, as far as Ten Thousand Pound goes, and has some Estate of his own, desires an Emplo...
39233
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A very eminent Brewer, and one I know to be a very honest Gentleman, wants an Apprentice. I can give an account of him." } ]
39233
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Many Masters want Apprentices, and many Youths want Masters. If they apply themselves to me, I'll strive to help them. Also for variety of valuable services." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If any young Man that plays well on a Violin, and writes a good Hand, desires a Clerkship, I can help him to Twenty Pounds a year." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can help him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Grocer of good business desires an Apprentice of good growth." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's an Equivocator, that could swear in both the scales, against either scale: who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. Oh, come in, Equivocator" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in the margin, should be printed" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Præterea etiam acuto scopulo _infigendi_ voc. accommodatius videtur quam _infligendi_. And Wagner:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cornua obnixi infigunt," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Saturnius me sic _infixit_ Jupiter, Jovisque numen Mulcibri adscivit manus. Hos ille _cuneos_ fabrica crudeli _inserens_, Perrupit artus; qua miser sollertia Transverberatus, castrum hoc Furiarum incolo." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Plura cum auderet furens, Tridente rupem subruit pulsam pater Neptunus, imis exerens undis caput, Solvitque montem; quem cadens secum tulit: Terraque et igne victus et pelago jacet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fixusque Capharei Cautibus, inter aquas flammam ructab...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Præcipitem scopulo atque ingentis turbine saxi Excutit effunditque solo." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stupet obvia leto Turba super stantem, atque emissi turbine montis Obruitur." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Idem altas turres saxis et turbine crebro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A tale un turbo In preda il diè; che per acuti scogli Miserabil ne fe' rapina, e scempio." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ast ego, quæ Divûm incedo reg...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Verses to General Monck," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pius V. resolved to make his bastard son, Boncompagni, Marquis of Vincola, King of Ireland, &c. For this assertion no authority is cited, nor indeed could be. The very name might have suggested the filiation to his successor, Gregory XIII., which was the fact. In a work, not muc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The cross, which does not appear to have been peculiar to Christianity, when introduced on these obelisks, is usually filled with tracery." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the court of one of the temples in the island of Columel he was amazed by the sight of a cross of stone and lime, about ten palms high." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crosses, or stones on which the figure was traced, marked a place of meeting for certain district...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The crucifix was not known before the fifth or sixth century, though the cross was always the emblem of the Christian faith." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Bernard succeeded to the paternal inheritance both in England and France, and having married Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir John de Roche, had a large estate with her, and the hereditary post of Master of the Buckhounds; which was confirmed to him by King Edward the Third...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cerne coronatam Domini super _atria Christi_, Stare crucem, duro spondentem celsa labori Præmia: _tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See how the cross of Christ a crown entwines: High o'er God's temple it refulgent shines; Pledging...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SARAH MATTOCKS, Aged 27. Much lamented by her husband, Lieutenant-Colonel JOHN MATTOCKS. Was the grand-daughter of the Great JOHN HAMDEN, Esq., Of St. James's, Westminster." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As she was twenty-seven years old at her death, she must have been born in 1751; it was therefore impossible that she should have been the grand-daughter of the great John Hampden, that died in 1643, one hundred and eight years before her birth." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Auctori Connect.; and on the reverse," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Inde. for _independence_, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lib. for liberty; date in the exerg., 1781 or 1787; and between" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Inde. and" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Walker? Why do people say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Walker" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hookey Walker, as related by John Bee, Esq., is simply this:--John Walker was an out-door clerk at Longman, Clementi, and Co.'s in Cheapside, where a great nu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rembrandt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A mistake (says P.) as Rembrandt was not fourteen years of age (he was indeed only eight) in 1614, at which time it is certain the countess was not living." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Being at Strawberry Hill in April, 1773, I saw there a copy of the picture commonly attributed to the old Countess of Desmond; but Mr. Walpole told me that there is sufficient proof that it is a painter's mother, I think Rembrandt's. However, by a letter from Mr. Lort, April 15,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Voluntate Cæsaris Romani Imperatoris Maximi Domini, Rex. I hope to offer a better solution, which, although not new, has been passed over, I believe, by all subsequent writers. The Rev. George North, in the _Museum Meadianum_, p. 97., gives the following note:" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ὁ τίμιος γάμος ἐστί is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "ὁ γάμος τίμιος is untranslateable, unless you supply ἐστί, and then it means" }, { "from": "human", "value": "(or, marriage in general, in the abstract)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But ἔ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crowns have their Compass," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crownes have their compasse, length of dayes their date, Triumphes their tombes, felicitie her fate; Of more than earth can earth make none partaker, But knowledge makes the king most like his Maker." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crowns have their compass--length of days their date-- Triumphs their tomb--felicity, her fate-- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "into" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "read" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Administrations of England, and the Judges of the Ecclesiastical Courts" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--Cozens the Painter--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Acu tinali meridi --Nightingale and Thorn, &c.--Theodolite--Temple of Ægina--Ashen Fagots--Cause of Transparency--Praed's Charade--Marriages in ruined Churches--Age of Trees--Joceline's Legacy--St. Bene't Fink--Br...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FERMILODUM read" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "FERMILODVNI; p. 394. col. 1. l. 34. for" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Danish read" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dutch; p. 395. col. 1. l. 19. for" }, { "from": "human", "value": "D...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THUCYDIDES OR GROTE?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Editor of NOTES AND QUERIES." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Proposals for Christian Union." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are written in the same attractive and popular style." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Show great research on the part of the Author into the early history of the Principality. We can recommend...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Booke that ys cleped the Mirrour of the Blissed Liffe of Jhesu Criste," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Webster's English Dictionary;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The neatest and most comprehensive collection of Scottish minstrelsy, ancient and modern." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Book of Scottish Song." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A rich and valuable collection--accompanied by critical and bibliographica...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Notes and Queries" } ]