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When Calais had fallen and had become an English possession in the summer of 1347 no peace followed. A truce was patched up for some months, followed by Further truces. Through the mediation of the Pope a final and definite treaty was sketched, which should terminate the war upon the cession of Aquitaine to Edward III. in full sovereignty. The F...

An Epistle to a Member of Parliament. Honoured Sir, Our Fore-fathers, if not now in Being, have passed an Act, prohibiting the Importation of Foreign, and for the Encouragement of the Breed of English Cattle, which, I am told, has much raised the Price of Land in England. With Submission to your better Judgment, I think, An Act, for Increasing t...

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THE WIFE-SARAH. W strange land, to dwell in a far country. He was to pass the rest of his days as a sojourner in a land which should be thereafter given to a people yet unborn,-to a nation which was to descend from him. Abraham was a lineal descendant of Shem, who was doubtless still living while ""the father of Abraham yet abode with his kindre...

The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be 2 living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed. And he took up his parable and said -Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, ...

MYSTÈRE DES BÊTES À PAROLES Drôle de bêtes emprisonnées dans des corps trop lourds. Prisons humaines dans le jouissif des séductions, éclatent en moments insaisissables, sécrivent et fusent essentiel à travers le voile du non dit. Fuse la paix des linges transportés par les marées Fusent les marées silencieuses jusquà lintime des solitudes Fuse ...

Je descendais le dernier coteau du Canigou, et, bien que le soleil fût déjà couché, je distinguais dans la plaine les maisons de la petite ville dIlle, vers laquelle je me dirigeais. «Vous savez, dis-je au Catalan qui me servait de guide depuis la veille, vous savez sans doute où demeure M. de Peyrehorade? - Si je le sais! sécria-t-il, je connai...

The publishers of ""Picturesque World's Fair,"" in presenting These exquisite views, feel justified in congratulating Themselves upon The success that has attended Their efforts to place within The reach of all classes of people an artistic realistic reproduction of The great Exposition. Not only do The publishers feel gratulation in Their own b...

SAPPHO. [B.C. 568.] MURE. ACCORDING to established data, the more brilliant portion of Sappho's career may be placed in the first half of the sixth century before Christ, while her childhood and early youth belong to the close of the seventh. Her birthplace, according to the more trustworthy authorities, was Mitylene, the metropolis of the isle ...

The Royal Oak There is in Shropshire a fine oak-tree which the country people there call the ""Royal Oak"". They say it is the great-grandson, or perhaps the great-great-grandson of anOther fine old oak, which more than two hundred years ago stood on the same spot, and served once as a shelter to an English king. This king was Charles II, the so...