The Harleian miscellany; or, A collection of ... pamphlets and tracts ... in the late earl of Oxford's library, Volume 11 |
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... Gorizia , or Goritia , the capital of a county of the same name , in the Dutchy of Carniola . THE War breaking out between France and her allies and the house of Austria , towards the close of the year 1733 , we took for granted , that ...
... Gorizia , or Goritia , the capital of a county of the same name , in the Dutchy of Carniola . THE War breaking out between France and her allies and the house of Austria , towards the close of the year 1733 , we took for granted , that ...
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... Gorizia , for twelve zecchins , or sequins , each consisting of twenty - two Venetian lire , or livres , furnished us with two very good postiglioni . These conducted us first to Treviso , Trivigi , or Trevigio , for it goes by all ...
... Gorizia , for twelve zecchins , or sequins , each consisting of twenty - two Venetian lire , or livres , furnished us with two very good postiglioni . These conducted us first to Treviso , Trivigi , or Trevigio , for it goes by all ...
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... Gorizia . From thence , the next morning , we proceeded to Conegliano , where we met with nothing remarkable . This place stands on the river Mottegano , whose source is on a hill , near the town of Ceneda . The people of Treviso ...
... Gorizia . From thence , the next morning , we proceeded to Conegliano , where we met with nothing remarkable . This place stands on the river Mottegano , whose source is on a hill , near the town of Ceneda . The people of Treviso ...
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... Gorizia , differ considerably from those used in any other part of Italy . Between Palma and Gorizia , which are distant two posts , taking a sort of detour , we passed through Strasoldo , Villes , and Gradisca . Strasołdo is a little ...
... Gorizia , differ considerably from those used in any other part of Italy . Between Palma and Gorizia , which are distant two posts , taking a sort of detour , we passed through Strasoldo , Villes , and Gradisca . Strasołdo is a little ...
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... Gorizia . Some authors have erroneously placed both Gradisca and Gorizia in Friuli . The fortifications of the former place seem to be in a ruinous condition ; but the Imperialists are now repairing them . The garison , according to the ...
... Gorizia . Some authors have erroneously placed both Gradisca and Gorizia in Friuli . The fortifications of the former place seem to be in a ruinous condition ; but the Imperialists are now repairing them . The garison , according to the ...
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Page 169 - Council, and to all that are put in authority under her, that they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to the maintenance of thy true religion and virtue. Give grace, O heavenly Father, to all Bishops and Curates, that they may both by their life and doctrine set forth thy true and lively Word, and rightly and duly administer thy holy Sacraments...
Page 366 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 43 - The winter lasts no longer than June and July, and is not then severe, there being only a small frost, and a little hail; but sometimes great rains. The heat of the summer is equally moderate; and there is not much thunder, or tempestuous weather of any sort.
Page 366 - Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue his faithful soldier and servant unto thy life's end. Amen.
Page 44 - ... vigour of the mind, both which we are apt to destroy by excess and plenty, especially of strong liquor, and the variety as well as the nature of our meat and drink: for this man, when he came to our ordinary method of diet and life, though he was sober enough, lost much of his strength and agility.
Page 42 - He told us that his agility in pursuing a goat had once like to have cost him his life ; he pursued it with so much eagerness...
Page 491 - And surely if the common people have no more freedom in England but only to live among their elder brothers, and work for them for hire, what freedom then have they in England, more than we have in Turkey or France?
Page 463 - ... many rare engines, not known then in these parts — as the art to...
Page 41 - ... without discovering him. He told us that he was born at Largo in the county of Fife in Scotland, and was bred a sailor from his youth. The reason of his being left here was a difference betwixt him and his Captain...
Page 417 - Cytherea meum. Si tu venisses pariter certamen in illud, in dubium Veneris palma futura fuit.