London and Middlesex, Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain: Including Sketches of Its Environs, and a Topographical Account of the Most Remarkable Places in the Above County, Volumen2W. Wilson, 1814 - 4033 páginas |
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... Citizens , and , with that intent , he granted them a new and extensive Charter , by which many of their ancient and most important privileges were ascertained and established , and various new ones conferred . In consequence of this ...
... Citizens , and , with that intent , he granted them a new and extensive Charter , by which many of their ancient and most important privileges were ascertained and established , and various new ones conferred . In consequence of this ...
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... Citizens were generally built with wood , and thatched with straw or reeds , a mode of con- struction that resulted from the comparative cheapness and plenty of those materials , but the evils of which were frequently expe- rienced in ...
... Citizens were generally built with wood , and thatched with straw or reeds , a mode of con- struction that resulted from the comparative cheapness and plenty of those materials , but the evils of which were frequently expe- rienced in ...
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... Citizens , or rather Merchants , of London , purchased for 200 marks an exemption from the Quinzieme , which was a duty payable by every Merchant , whether native or foreigner . In the same reign , between the years 1211 and 1213 , the ...
... Citizens , or rather Merchants , of London , purchased for 200 marks an exemption from the Quinzieme , which was a duty payable by every Merchant , whether native or foreigner . In the same reign , between the years 1211 and 1213 , the ...
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... Citizens the purchase of cattle , or goods of any kind , within the town of Southwark , which could be had in the City , under the penalty of forfeiting the commodity purchased . ' In the year 1285 , the great Conduit in West - cheap ...
... Citizens the purchase of cattle , or goods of any kind , within the town of Southwark , which could be had in the City , under the penalty of forfeiting the commodity purchased . ' In the year 1285 , the great Conduit in West - cheap ...
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... Citizens , " says Stow , " that way to passe uppon causewaies into the fielde , for their recreation . " In the following year Sir Henry Barton , Lord Mayor , ordered lanthorns with lights to be hung out on winter evenings , betwixt ...
... Citizens , " says Stow , " that way to passe uppon causewaies into the fielde , for their recreation . " In the following year Sir Henry Barton , Lord Mayor , ordered lanthorns with lights to be hung out on winter evenings , betwixt ...
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Página 455 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London...
Página 292 - Bernini's design of the Louvre I would have given my skin for ; but the old reserved Italian gave me but a few minutes' view ; it was five little designs on paper, for which he hath received as many thousand pistoles.
Página 82 - To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Página 719 - ... and undaunted courage : and, notwithstanding he had at this time neither read books, nor conversed with men capable of giving him much instruction in the military art, all the resources which he employed in the defence of Arcot, were such as are dictated by the best masters in the science of war.
Página 1 - Then Commerce brought into the public walk The busy merchant; the big warehouse built; Raised the strong crane; choked up the loaded street With foreign plenty; and thy stream, O Thames! Large, gentle, deep, majestic, king of floods! Chose for his grand resort.
Página 297 - Kunc me jttbet fortuna cxpeditiut philosophari;' in which recess, free from worldly affairs, he passed the greatest part of the five last following years of his life, in contemplation and studies, and principally in the consolation of the Holy Scriptures; cheerful in solitude, and as well pleased to die in the shade as in the light.
Página 517 - Public at large, that the general concerns of the Bank are in the most affluent and prosperous situation, and such as to preclude every doubt as to the security of its Notes.
Página 492 - Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow : 23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Página 279 - WORLD ; WHICH HE TRAVERSED TO REDUCE THE SUM OF HUMAN MISERY. FROM THE THRONE TO THE DUNGEON HIS NAME WAS MENTIONED WITH RESPECT, GRATITUDE, AND ADMIRATION.
Página 533 - An aft for authorizing his majesty in council to allow, during the present war, and for six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace...