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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Katy, what a dear you are to think of it! It's just the thing. Day after to-morrow is children's Sunday and she'll enjoy that, and I'm going to church myself and surprise Mr. Middleton. That is why Elsie went into Boston to-day--to get me some gloves and a dove-colored sunsh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Elsie, we know the whole story, now. It seemed a sad mix-up at first--what a friend of mine up-State would call a 'pretty kettle of fish'; but with Aunt Milly's assistance we managed to get at the crux of the affair and see things more clearly. Aunt Milly declares it was j...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Moss brings word that Miss Pritchard has become deeply attached to--er--the other Elsie. Now that isn't a circumstance to our case. For my part, I couldn't possibly have cared more for my dear sister's daughter than I have come to care for you, Elsie, and Aunt Milly is conv...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those babes took things into their own hands in great style a year ago, she declared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They got hold of a deck of cards and shuffled them to suit themselves, not realizing that isn't the way to play the game. They shouldn't have touched ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought if you insisted upon trading back, we'd all be in sight of one another that way, even though we elders might be mutually hating each other," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Apparently, then, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, Mrs. Moss went on rather doubtfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's possible, the minister acknowledged," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, but Jack, it would be crue...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't wait any longer, Cousin Julia, she said sweetly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I just had to see Elsie-Honey." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We're to be real cousins," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How perfectly ripping! she crie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When found, make a note of." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Foxes and Firebrands. No. 2." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Trojan Horse" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Veni, vidi, vici" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Donatus Redivivus" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Trail through the leaden sky," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Vox Populi Vox Dei --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lanquettes Cronicles --" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Our Engli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Memorials --Foreign Medical Education--Encyclopædias --Pepys's Grammar--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi --Napoleon's Spelling--Black as a mourning Colour--Chanting of Jurors--Aldress--Huggins and Muggins--Camera Lucida--" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FOXES AND FIREBRANDS. NO. II." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THE TROJAN HORSE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In a true Piece of Wit _all things_ must be, Yet all things there agree; As in the _Ark_, join'd without force or strife, All creatures dwelt--all creatures that had life." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "High Church and Low Church" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Popery and Prelacy, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mass Book and Service Book." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Papists on the one hand, and the Puritans on the other, did endeavour to sully and bespatter the glory of her Reformation: the one taxing it with innovation, and the other with superstition." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Papists and Sectaries, like Sampson's...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have put in hard, I'll assure you, in all companies, for two or three more: as for example, _The Papist and the Puritan being tyed together like Sampson's Foxes_. I liked it well enough, and have beseeched them to let it pass for a phansie; but I could never get the rogues in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Faire Warning for England to take heed of the Presbyterian Government.... Also the Sinfulnesse and Wickednesse of the _Covenant_, to introduce that Government upon the Church of England." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But to see those very men who plead so vehement...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Latitudinarian clergy made a bold push for it. A Comprehension Bill actually passed the House of Lords, but was thrown out by the Commons and Convocation. From William's time toleration and encouragement were extended to all save" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Popish...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The most of the inconveniences we labour under to this day, owe their original to the weakness of some and to the cowardice of others of the clergy. For had they stood stiff and inflexible at first against the encroachments and intrigues of a Puritanical faction, like a threefol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Another thing that brings great disrespect and mischief upon the clergy ... is their packing their sermons so full of similitudes (p. 41.). Eachard has a museum of curiosities in this line. _The Puritan Pulpit_, however, far outstrips ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "would make a very curious volume. Take a passage from the _Anatomy of the Service Book_, for instance:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The cruellest of the American savages, called the Mohaukes, though they fattened their captive Christians to the slaughter, yet they ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q.," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Trojan Mare and tying" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Evangelical Alliance. Jeremy Collier gives a curious parallel:--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lord Burleigh, upon some complaint against the L...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Angling in North Wales, which appeared in _The Field_ newspaper of October 22nd, contains a specimen of an entirely original kind of testimonial, which seems to me worthy of preservation in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "N. & Q.'s" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sept. 4. 1852. This is to certify that LADY MARSHALL Is to Donkeys very partial, And no postilion in a car, shall Ever more her drive O'er all the stones; On 'Jenny Jones' She'll ride while she's alive!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Royal Moses. Their history is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jan. 1, 1714-15. Last night died Mr. Josiah Pullen, A.M., minister of St. Peter's in the East, and Vice-Principal of Magdalen Hall. He had also a parsonage in the country. He was formerly domestick chaplain to Bishop Sanderson, to whom he administered the sacrament at his death....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hic jacet reverendus vir Josia Pullen, A.M. Aulæ Magd. 57 annos vice principalis, necnon hujusce ecclesiæ Pastor 39 annos. Obiit 31^o Decembris, anno Domini 1714, ætatis 84." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as it is called. Some who are unable to procure it endeavour to avoid the penalty by wearing" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wellow. It has been a custom from time immemorial in this parish, when the banns of marriage are published, for a person, selected by the clerk, to rise and say 'God speed them well,' the clerk and congregation responding, Amen! Owing to the recent death of the person who offici...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lately, in Campbell, County Virginia, Mr. Chas. Layne, sen., aged 121 years, being born at Albemarle, near Buckingham county, 1700. He has left a widow aged 110 years, and a numerous and respectable family down to the fourth generation. He was a subject of four British sovereign...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Veni, vidi, vici." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Slava bogu! Slava vam! Krepost Vzala, yiatam." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Glory to God and the Empress! Ismail's ours." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peccavi." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Semper sub sextis perdita Roma fuit." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The _Zend_, of disputed authenticity, and the _Asmani Zuban_, a notoriously fictitious tongue, compared." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The _Asmani Zuban_ of the Desstù is most intimately allied to Persian. It is, in fact, fabricated out of that language, as is shown by clear internal evidence. Now the grammatical structure of this fictitious tongue is identical with that of Persian: and hence by following the r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My name, my country, what are they to thee? What whether high, or low, my pedigree? Perhaps I far surpassed all other men: Perhaps I fell behind them all--what then? Suffice it, stranger, that thou see'st a tomb, Thou know'st its use; it hides--no matter whom." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is here meant to show that in civilised nations money is an emanating circulable wealth and power, {492} without which individuals cannot go on in improvement on independent principles. It resolves wealth into the forms most conducive to this object, and prepares for the high...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The speculations in the two following sheets included views that related to the disorganised state of Turkey, and the unhappy dependence of the Bourbon family; which are now, from the changes which have taken place, altogether unfit for publication." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Improvements in Glasgow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DONATUS REDIVIVUS." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Donatus Redivivus: or a Reprimand to a modern Church-Schismatick, for his Revival of the Donatistical Heresy of Rebaptization, in Defiance to the Judgment and Practice of the Catholick Church, and of the Church of Eng...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Amazon Disarm'd: or, the Sophisms of a Schismatical Pamphlet, pretendedly writ by a Gentlewoman, entituled An Answer to Donatus Redivivus, exposed and confuted; being a further Vindication of the Church of England from the scandalous imputation of Donatism or Rebaptization. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I sate, and wept in secret the tears that men have ever given _to the memory of those that died before the dawn_, and by the treachery of earth our mother." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Salle des Gardes de Guillaume le Conquerant," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grand Palais de Guillaume le Conquerant," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Great Marquis" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "IN . ON . IS . AL." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Trail through the leaden sky," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Trail through the leaden sky their bannerets of fire." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vox Populi Vox Dei." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The word proclaimed by the concordant voice of mankind fails not; for in man speaks God." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hence the adage (?), 'Vox Populi vox Dei.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Vox Populi vox Dei" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "V. P. V. D." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Recogitans illud Proverbium, _Vox Populi Vox Dei_; and by Walter Reynolds, Archbishop of Canterbury, who, as we learn from Walsingham, took it as his text for the sermon which he preached when Edward III. was called to the t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of this book, edited by Thomas Crowley, in the next edition, entitled Cooper's _Chronicle_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "1560. The running title to the first and second parts is," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lanquet's Chronicle; and to the third," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Walter Raleigh, and not so much to a bull-fight as to the Spanish Armada. The bishop is prescribing Expectation as a remedy for Crosses, and says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it not credible what a fore-resolved mind can do--can suffer? Could our English Mi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Delights for Ladies." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Delights for Ladies; to adorn their Persons, Tables, Closets, and Distillatories, with Beauties, Bouquets, Perfumes, and Waters. Reade, practise, and censure." }, { "from": "human", "value": "See Douce's...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He, the said R. Burton, paid his last debt to nature in his chamber in Christ Church, at or very near that time which he had some years before foretold from the calculation of his own nativity; which, being exact, several of the students did not forbear to whisper among themselv...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HAYMAN, Robert. Certaine Epigrams out of the First Foure Bookes of the excellent Epigrammatist Master John Owen, translated into English at Harbor Grace in Bristol's Hope, anciently called Newfoundland, 4to., unbound; a rare poetical tract, 1628, 10s. 6d." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A true and faithfull Narrative of the Death of Master Hambden, who was mortally wounded at Challgrove Fight, A.D. 1643, and on the 18th of June." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PINECE WITH A STINK." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and an" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And stole his talismanic louse-- His flea, his morpion, and punaise." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anno 1503, dum hæc Pennio scriptitaret, Mortlacum Tamesin adjacentem viculum, magna festinatione accersebatur ad duas nobiles, magno metu ex cimicum vestigiis percussas, et quid nescio contagionis valde veritas. Tandem recognita, ac bestiolis captis, risu timorem omnem excussat....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Munditiem frequentemque lectulorum et culcitrarem lotionem, cum Galli, Germani, et Itali minus curant, pariunt magis hane pestem, Angli autem munditei et cultus studiosissimi rarius iis laborant." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou shalt not nede to be afraid of any bugs by night." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Full many a trope from bayonet and drum He threaten'd but behold! 'twas all a hum." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cimici, a kinde of vermine in Italie that breedeth in beds and biteth sore, called punies or wall-lice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And stole his talismanic louse, His flea, his morpion, and punese." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "), but is broken into two unequal portions, now placed side by side. The upper half of the larger piece has the following engraving:--In the centre stands the Virgin, wearing an arched imperial crown. Angels swing censers above ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LYCIDAS." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." }, { "from": "human", "value": "at one of his ow...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as remarked by ETONENSIS. The English public appeared to have an" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q.," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sunday Library," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "TREASURIE OF SIMILIES," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Treasurie or Store-house of Similies; both Pleasaunt, Delightfull, and Profitable for all Estates of Men in Generall: newly collected into Heades and Common Places. By Robert Cawdray. London: printed by Thomas Creede, 1609." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Epistl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Epistle Dedicatorie, as well as the title-page, appears to be wanting in J. H. S.'s copy of Robert Cawdray's _Store-house_, which was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From this we find that it was dedicated to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "whose" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Euen as the Sayler's Gnomon, or rule, which is commonly called the mariner's needle, doth alwayes looke towards the north poole, and will euer turne towards the same, howsoeuer it bee placed: which is maruellous in that instrument and needle, whereby the mariners doo knowe the c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Table Alphabeticall; conteyning and teaching the True Writing and Vnderstanding of hard vsuall English Wordes, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, or French, &c. London. 8vo. 1604." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A Treasurie or Store-house of Similies; both Pl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "MARY, WEEP NO MORE FOR ME." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q. you published an account of albumenizing paper for positives by MR. SHADBOLT. Having considerable experience in the manipulation of photographical art, I have bestowed great pains in testing the process he recommends; and, I regret to say, the results are by no means sat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Memorials _ (Vol. viii., p. 442.).--Cecil's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "First Memorial is printed in Lord Somers's _Tracts_. It appears that Primate Ussher, and, subsequently, Sir James Ware and his son Robert, had the benefit of extracts from Lord Burleigh's pape...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Those times which we term vulgarly they Old World, were indeed the youth or adolescence of it ... if you go to the age of the world in general, and to the true length and longevity of things, we are prop...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Je préviens une fois pour toutes que dans les copies que je donnerai des écrits de Bonaparte, je rétablirai l'orthographe, qui est en général _si extraordinairement estropiée_ qu'il serait ridicule de les copier exactement." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Creseyde was in widowe's habit _black_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My clothes everichone Shall _blacke_ ben, in tolequyn, herte swete, That I am as out of this world gone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "In clothes _black_ dropped all with tears." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They collected a grand jury in each county, and proceeded to claim a ratification of the rights of the crown. The gentlemen on being empanelled informed that the case before them was irresistible, and that no doubts could exist in the minds of reasonable {503} men upon it. His m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Master Mayor of Norwich; an it please your worship you have feasted us like a kinge. God bless the Queen's grace. We have fed plentifully, and now whilom I can speak plain English, I heartily thank you Master Mayor, and so do we all. Answer, boys, answer! Your beere is pleasant ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We cannot refrain for once from noticing the curious coincidence between the names of Odin's ravens, Hugin and Munin--Mind and Memory--and those of two personages who figure so often in our comic literature as Messrs. Huggins and Muggins. _Huggins_, like _Hugh_, appears to have ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If the drawing be two feet from the prism, and the paper only one foot, the copy will be half the size of the original. If the drawing be at one foot, and the paper three feet distant, the copy will be three times as large as the original: and so for all other distances." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lepel's regiment," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pepper's" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prayers at the Healing" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Office for the Healing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Creole" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dafter" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Richard Geering, one of the six clerks...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "RUINS OF MANY LANDS," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q.," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Familiar Explanation of the Phenomena" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This romance was the last work of Cervantes. The dedication to the Count de Lemos was written the day after he had received extreme unction." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BALD WITH DRY ANTIQUITY." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE EMPIRE," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Empire" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Empire advocates a complete remodelling, by a New Reform Bill, of the representative system; the abolition of the present panic-producing Currency Restrictions; the development of Colonial Enterprise and Prosperity; the Reform of Metropolitan City Abuses; and the protection ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Empire" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have derived considerable benefits from your Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines.--STUART DE DECIES." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, ner...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Classics." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing in my opinion can be more cogent than your refutation of M. Jobert." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jesse's Gleanings." } ]