Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851Charles Knight C. Knight, 1851 - 860 páginas |
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... Common- wealth , but were busy about the great affairs of the Commonwealth . " We would give a trifle to know whether one John Milton , a Secretary of the Lord Protector , was equally self - denying . In 1654 the morning view from the ...
... Common- wealth , but were busy about the great affairs of the Commonwealth . " We would give a trifle to know whether one John Milton , a Secretary of the Lord Protector , was equally self - denying . In 1654 the morning view from the ...
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... common discourse there . " Lord Cottington , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Laud , Bishop of London , who was then Lord Treasurer , and others of the king's councillors , strove to induce him to abandon his design ; but he refused ...
... common discourse there . " Lord Cottington , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Laud , Bishop of London , who was then Lord Treasurer , and others of the king's councillors , strove to induce him to abandon his design ; but he refused ...
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... Common . Looking from Richmond Hill , who would think that there was an unfertile spot in all that wide expanse ? And yet is Surrey one of the least densely - peopled of our counties , with longer ranges of uncultivated land than most ...
... Common . Looking from Richmond Hill , who would think that there was an unfertile spot in all that wide expanse ? And yet is Surrey one of the least densely - peopled of our counties , with longer ranges of uncultivated land than most ...
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... common people . Perhaps he was only thinking of a shorter cut to Teddington . Be it so . Taste is sure to follow in the steps of a well - directed utility . But the Chestnut avenue of Bushy ! We have come thus far to look upon it . We ...
... common people . Perhaps he was only thinking of a shorter cut to Teddington . Be it so . Taste is sure to follow in the steps of a well - directed utility . But the Chestnut avenue of Bushy ! We have come thus far to look upon it . We ...
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... common incident . Between Westminster and the Tower , and the Tower and Greenwich , the Thames was especially the royal road . When Henry VII . willed the coronation of his Queen Elizabeth , she came from Green- wich , attended by ...
... common incident . Between Westminster and the Tower , and the Tower and Greenwich , the Thames was especially the royal road . When Henry VII . willed the coronation of his Queen Elizabeth , she came from Green- wich , attended by ...
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Página 177 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Página 199 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
Página 203 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey: where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.
Página 203 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Página 271 - May the great God whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Página 204 - Dr. Busby ! a great man ! he whipped my grandfather ; a very great man ! I should have gone to him myself, if I had not been a blockhead : a very great man !' " We were immediately conducted into the little chapel on the right hand.
Página 610 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate. Our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines. Our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan. Our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth. We repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies.
Página 200 - Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription.
Página 9 - Park to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between and Mrs. Nelly, f as they called an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and standing on the green walk under it. I was heartily sorry at this scene.
Página 130 - ... air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and...