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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... scavengers employed by the different parishes ; and the waste water , & c . runs off through iron gratings , fixed in the kennels at proper intervals , into arched arched sewers or drains , constructed beneath the streets ( 6 MIDDLESEX .
... scavengers employed by the different parishes ; and the waste water , & c . runs off through iron gratings , fixed in the kennels at proper intervals , into arched arched sewers or drains , constructed beneath the streets ( 6 MIDDLESEX .
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... parishes , under the express regulations of various acts of Parliament , obtained for local purposes . The manner in which the Streets are Lighted very much con- duces to the public safety , and on dark nights has a most striking effect ...
... parishes , under the express regulations of various acts of Parliament , obtained for local purposes . The manner in which the Streets are Lighted very much con- duces to the public safety , and on dark nights has a most striking effect ...
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... parishes , of late years , the lamps have each been furnished with two solid glass lenses , being segments of globes , through which the light is greatly increased by refraction ; yet these are by many regarded as objectionable , from ...
... parishes , of late years , the lamps have each been furnished with two solid glass lenses , being segments of globes , through which the light is greatly increased by refraction ; yet these are by many regarded as objectionable , from ...
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... Parish Church of S. Giles , without Criplegate . Be- sides all which , they had in every streete and lane of the Citie divers fayre wels and fresh springes : and after this manner was this Citie then served with sweete and fresh waters ...
... Parish Church of S. Giles , without Criplegate . Be- sides all which , they had in every streete and lane of the Citie divers fayre wels and fresh springes : and after this manner was this Citie then served with sweete and fresh waters ...
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... Parish of Dionis , Langbourne Ward ; three messuages and five shops , in St. Andrew's , Billingsgate ; one messuage and one shop , with a quay adjoining , in St. Mary at Hill , Billingsgate ; three messages with a cellar , in St ...
... Parish of Dionis , Langbourne Ward ; three messuages and five shops , in St. Andrew's , Billingsgate ; one messuage and one shop , with a quay adjoining , in St. Mary at Hill , Billingsgate ; three messages with a cellar , in St ...
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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...