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  The Golden Asse
Her ornaments were throwne out, her temples defaced, her pillowes and cushions torne, her ceremonies neglected, her images and Statues uncrowned, and her bare altars unswept, and fowl with the ashes of old burnt sacrifice.
Her other two sisters which were nothing so greatly exalted by the people, were royally married to two Kings: but the virgin Psyches sitting at home alone, lamented her solitary life, and being disquieted both in mind and body, although she pleased all the world, yet hated shee in her selfe her owne beauty.
Her husband being as it were inchanted with these words and compelled by violence of her often embracing, wiping away her teares with his haire, did yeeld unto his wife.
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 Hamilton, The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 1 ToC: The Online Library of Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The consumption of her manufactures in these colonies supplies the means of subsistence to a vast number of her most useful inhabitants.
As to her wealth, it is notorious that she is oppressed with a heavy national debt, which it requires the utmost policy and economy ever to discharge.
One of the principal branches of her commerce is with the colonies.
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 Jamacia Plain Historical Society
Her father, Norris W. Cuney, was a pioneer in fl politics and a successful businessman.
Loring included it all in her statement of losses and did not hesitate to start the account with a computation of interest for over eight years at 6% of the whole value of the physical property, producing for this portion of interest alone the substantial amount of £2487: I:13, a high figure for the times.
Her statement that her husband left his home "as early as 31 August 1774-and never saw his House nor any part of his estate afterwards" demolishes at a stroke a favorite Roxbury legend that has appeared often in print.
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 Welcome!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
What a security to the other colonies and advantage to Britain by increasing her people, territory, strength and commerce....Life, like a dramatic piece, should not only be conducted with regularity but methinks it should finish handsomely.
Her family may have had objections to so poor a choice of mate by her parents, but his legal credentials were a commendation they respected.
As the Congress met, moderate southern leaders, driven into the camp of the Boston radicals by the destruction of their chances for more lands to support their topsoil-depleting crops of tobacco and cotton, joined in vehement chorus against this latest intolerable transgression by the Tory ministry.
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On the subject of her reputed gallantries he spoke cautiously, premising that, as an American, I ought to make many allowances for a state of society, that was altogether unknown in our country.
Her manner was less nervous than that of the Queen, and I should think her mind had more influence over her exterior.
One _garçon_, as he aided his master in closing the shop-window, was edifying him with anathemas against "_ces messieurs les républicains_," who were believed to be at the bottom of the disturbance, and for whom he evidently thought that the artillery augured badly.
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 Hamilton, The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 6 ToC: The Online Library of Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Great Britain has permitted the importation into her West India colonies of all the foreign articles allowed by France to be imported into her islands (salted fish and salted beef excepted), and she moreover permitted the importation of foreign tobacco, flour, meal, biscuit, wheat, and various other grains which France prohibited.
All the productions of her islands must go to the mother country, except rum and molasses; these articles were not confined to France, because they would have directly interfered with the valuable manufacture of her brandies.
But her navigation being adequate to the whole trade of all her dominions, while that of France required the addition of foreign bottoms, Great Britain has excluded entirely from her colony trade the foreign vessels of all nations, while France has admitted them to share in the foreign trade permitted to her West India islands.
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 Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth City Centre (The Napier Pillar)
In this action the "Recruit's" mainmast was shot away, her carronades dismounted, several of her men killed and wounded, and Captain Napier himself had his thigh broken, but refused to leave the deck until the conclusion of the engagement.
In 1813, Captain Napier, in a most masterly manner and without loss, took possession of the island of Ponza, notwithstanding that in the attempt he was exposed to the fire of four batteries and a tower.
In June 1815, the "Euryalus", the ship Captain Napier then commanded, was paid off, and her captain was nominated a C.B. From January, 1829 until the early part of 1832, he was employed in the "Galatea" on particular service.
www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk /city-centre/napier.htm   (1052 words)

  
 Royal City Karlsbad
Majesty Archduke Stephan), the house Queen of England, and the Helenenhof.
The city administration is executed by the magistrate with an approved mayor, an approved councilor, 2 unapproved councilors elected by the citizens from their ranks, 1 registrar of deeds who is also [some other type of] registrar and tax assessor, 2 office clerks, and 1 court clerk.
Johann Chevalier de Carro, a born Swiss (from Geneva), who already for a long time had an European reputation as a propagator of the cowpox inoculation, today has gained recognition in the spa by the Almanach de Carlsbad that was founded by him and is continued with diligence, taste, and knowledge.
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 Newspaper Abstracts
Another of the party then struck her with a large stick on the hands and shoulders, whereupon her husband jumped out of bed, seized the fellow by the throat and took the stick from him.
Egan and two of her children encountered three of the ruffians in the kitchen, but in the struggle she and her children were severely assaulted.
She called repeatedly to her servant boy, and a schoolmaster named Cleary, who were in the house, to come to her assistance and make prisoners of the party.
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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Residence in France, by J. FENIMORE COOPER.
that was, at least, indiscreet for one in her situation, though he had no reason to believe her attachment had led her to the length of criminality.
The Count de —— came in just before dinner was announced, and whispered to me that some twelve or fifteen hundred had been buried the previous day, although less than a thousand had been reported.
One garçon, as he aided his master in closing the shop-window, was edifying him with anathemas against "ces messieurs les républicains," who were believed to be at the bottom of the disturbance, and for whom he evidently thought that the artillery augured badly.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Your wheaten wreathe Was then nor threashd, nor blasted; Fortune at you Dimpled her Cheeke with smiles: Hercules our kinesman (Then weaker than your eies) laide by his Club, He tumbled downe upon his Nemean hide And swore his sinews thawd: O greife, and time, Fearefull consumers, you will all devoure.
I will not as you doe, to worship her, As she is heavenly, and a blessed Goddes; I love her as a woman, to enjoy her: So both may love.
That intemprat surfeit of her eye hath distemperd the other sences: they may returne and settle againe to execute their preordaind faculties, but they are now in a most extravagant vagary.
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 David Schulson Autographs Catalog - Politics and History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
During her reign, Russia extended its boundaries from wars with the Turks and the partition of Poland.
He approves of her, "branching out a good deal…I infer that little brain beneath the widow's cap is burning with all kinds of thoughts - and fancies…I approve in advance…." This is apparently a reference to her suitors whom he then discusses by name offering some advice.
With her personal example of honesty, patriotism, and devotion to family life, Victoria became one of the most popular English monarchs.
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 Prince Charles...Astroppo.com
She and her husband divorced, and her husband remarried, to a woman with whom he had had a long-term relationship during his marriage.
(He is Duke of Cornwall.) Though her age suggests it is highly improbable, such legislation would also need to state that any children of the union would be excluded from the succession to the throne.
Practical issues would also potentially arise over the status of her children by her first marriage, who in the event of a second marriage would become step-children of the future king and step-brothers and step-sisters to Princes William and Harry.
www.astroppo.com /prince-charles.htm   (2021 words)

  
 Stories & Reports 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Kristine isn’t a Baha’i yet and wants to continue her studies so they have to leave, but it’s a loss to the firmly-established but homogenous Famagusta community in terms of the diversity of age and race, and prestige Ben brought.
I had assured my companion before her departure to spend the last of her euros, that I wouldn't move from this spot and if I did I would write discreetly in pencil on this lower marble slab the time I left.
This was her first encounter with the Faith and we were able to talk to her quite a lot and exchange email addresses.
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 View of the Present State of Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
plow-landes, is not wholy to escheat unto her Majestie as the rest, thay having in all these warrs continewed for the most parte duetyfull, though otherwise a great parte therof is now under the rebels, ther is an abatement to be made out of iiij h.
For though there be no statute there yet enacted therefore, yet might her Majestye, by her onely prorgative, seize the fruictes and profites of those fugitives lands into her handes, tyll they came over to testefye theire true allegeance.
And beinge so, they will bothe strengthen all the countrye round about them, which by theire meanes wilbe the better replenished and enriched, and also be as contynuall houldes for her Majesty, yf the people should revolt and breake out againe; for without such yt is easye to forrey and over-ronne the whole lande.
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 Dimitri Fortunov (Latverian, X-Force character)
Known Relatives: Tristian Mangegi Fortunov/Baron de Sabbat (grandfather), unnamed grandmother (not the Baroness Sabbat), unnamed father (illegitimate son of Tristian);
Learning that Tristian's uneasy Nazi allies, Baron Strucker and his aide, Schlange, planned to assassinate him, Dimitri instead joined with X-Force to destroy Strucker's Sturmfanger (Storm-Catcher) machine, the energies of which was holding them all in the past.
Dimitri told Tristian of Strucker's intentions, but was stopped by Meltdown from revealing who he was or how he had gotten in there.
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 Fred Mitchell Uncensored.Com For November 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Pinder, well known in Grand Bahama from her stint as principal at Eight Mile Rock High School is said to be the target of a coming attack on her position in the civil service.
The Government was obviously so stung by her unpopularity that they had to issue a statement on Friday 15 November showing that she was not getting all the pension benefits that were being claimed around the town.
But her response in church gave me a clue as to what the problem of the FNM is about public criticism; they take all this stuff personally.
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 Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe
Be gone my freend, present them to her straite.
That I with her may dye and live againe.
She cast her hatefull stomack to the earth.
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 The Two Noble Kinsmen
The honour of affection, and dye for her,
Not to be held ungratefull to her goodnes,
Her distraction is more at some time of the Moone, then at other
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 Shakespeare and the Players | Introduction
For several years Tuck offered cash prizes to those who had the largest number of Tuck cards in their collections; a collector had to have at least thousands of cards even to think of entering the contests.
Auditions for individual plays were unnecessary; actors were hired and became part of the company until, like Ellen Terry and Matheson Lang, they sometimes struck out on their own and temporarily formed their own companies.
Dame Ellen Terry, who played with Sir Henry Irving most of her adult career, several times presented her own productions of Shakespeare, but she always returned to the Irving fold.
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 Tower 1
The 1696 letter shows the extremely rare variety with both of the spellings "PAID" and "PENY" on the same Stamp in place of the Variations "PAYD" and "PENY" or "PENNY." A 1791 letter (see folder 39) is a minor type variety with sharply indented corners of the triangle.
Gustavus Kimball (her brother), Forsyth, Georgia, then forwarded by "sister Frances" to Milledgeville, Georgia, Sept.
The letter, a request for the hiring of W. Richard Carpenter, may be in the handwriting of Alexander Hamilton, who was Washington's Secretary and Aide at his Headquarters.
libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/tower/tower1.html   (9552 words)

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