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During the last dozen years its price at auctions runs about £250 to £300. Audubon died in New York in 1851. See Life, by Buchanan, 8vo, London, 1866. Biographical Notices had been sent to the Weekly Journal in 1826, and are now included in the Miscell. Prose Works, vol. iv. pp. 322-342. Afterwards included in The Pilgrimage and other Poems, Lond. 1856.
Lond. 1785-93; in which he has described upwards of four hundred plants not before noticed. Such an instance of successful industry united with a taste for intellectual pursuits, deserves to be recorded; not only on account of its relation to the subject of this narrative, but because, it illustrates in a very striking and pleasing manner, the advantages of education in the lower classes of life.
So this is the shortest way to Ynde there may be, to sail through that dyke, if men gon by sea. But all the Lond of Egypt is clepen the Vale enchaunted; for no man may do his business well that goes thither, but always fares he evil, and therefore clepen they Egypt the Vale perilous, and the sepulchre of reputations. And men say there that is one of the entrees of Helle.
also George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, 4 vols. 8vo, Lond. 1843-4. Alexander, tenth Earl of Home, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Henry, third Duke of Buccleuch. Charles, second son of Archibald Lord Douglas. James Thomas, Viscount Stopford, afterwards fourth Earl of Courtown, and his wife, Lady Charlotte, sister of the then Duke of Buccleuch, at that time still in his minority.
Finally, they were plainly told that if they were distrustful, or reluctant at putting forth their strenuous exertions, they must not engage in the undertaking. Lond. 1741.
"Yeigh, so it dun, mester," observed old Mitton. "It does not appear to have been disturbed, at all events," said Nicholas, dismounting and examining it. "It would seem not," said Nowell "and yet it certainly is not in its old place." "Yo are mistaen, mester," observed Jem Device; "ey knoa th' lond weel, an this stoan has stood where it does fo' t' last twenty year. Ha'n't it, neeburs?"
The surface of the island was covered with oak and hickory trees, intermixed with meadows and old Indian fields; the soil was rich and fertile, and in all places, where they tried, they found fresh water within nine feet of the surface. II. p. 330, 2d ed. Lond. 1764. On the 25th, Oglethorpe and his men, and Major Richard and his attendants, got back to Frederica.
In that lond, ne in many othere bezonde that, no man may see the sterre transmontane, that is clept the sterre of the see, that is unmevable, and that is toward the northe, that we clepen the lode sterre. But men seen another steere, the contrarie to him, that is toward the south, that is clept Antartyk.
Some of these fine drawings have been engraved for Colonel Tod's Travels in Western India. Lond., 4to, 1839. The following extract from a letter by Wilkie shows how willingly he had responded to Scott's request: 7 TERRACE, KENSINGTON, LONDON, Jan. 1829.
Johnson's Answer to Jovian, in three Letters to a country friend, Lond. 1692. At the end of this letter is reprinted the preface before the history of the reigns of Edward and Richard II. before mentioned. The History of Religion, Lond. 1694. The 4th book of Virgil translated into English, which contains the loves of Dido and Æneas, 1660.
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