An Irish dignitary of the church (not remarkable for veracity) complaining that a tradesman of his parish had called him a liar, Macklin asked him what reply he made him. "I told him," says he, "that a lie was amongst the things I dared not commit."—"And why, doctor," replied Macklin, "did you give the rascal so mean an opinion of your courage?"
In the neighbourhood of Yeovil are now living, in the same house, and at the same board, a man and his wife, two sons, three daughters, two grandsons, one grand-daughter, one grandfather, two fathers, two mothers, one father-in-law, one son-in-law, three brothers, three sisters, two brothers-in-law, two sisters-in-law, two uncles, two aunts, two nephews, three nieces, three first cousins, one great uncle, two great nephews, and one great niece; the whole consisting of seven individuals only.
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Sphinx ligustri, privet hank-moth.
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When at St. Helena, he was much troubled with toothache and scurvy in the gums.
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Las Cases, Vol. I partie 2de, p. 5.
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The word biblos or byblos, was afterwards almost appropriated to books written upon the paper of Egypt.
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De Re Diplomatica.