“Mr. Andrews has given us some excellent volumes of Church lore, but none quite so good as this.
— from Literary Byways by William Andrews
I began to talk to her about her family, and you remember that she at once gave us some exceedingly valuable details.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
He published an elaborate account of a process which he claimed as his own, under the title Ueber das Anquicken der Gold und Silberhältigen Erze , Vienna, 1786.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola
Mr. Andrews has given us some excellent volumes of Church lore, but none quite so good as this.
— from Bygone Punishments by William Andrews
"Mr. Andrews has given us some excellent volumes of Church lore, but none quite so good as this.
— from Bygone Punishments by William Andrews
And "before I would deny my God and his Evangel," these are George's own words, "I would rather kneel down here before your Majesty, and have my head struck off,"—hitting his hind-head, or neck, with the edge of his hand, by way of accompaniment; a strange radiance in the eyes of him, voice risen into musical alt: "Ehe Ich wolte meinen Gott und sein Evangelium verlaugnen, ehe wolte Ich hier vor Eurer Majestat niderknien, und mir den Kopf abhauen lassen.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
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