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 |
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... belonging to the nobility , also of stone , are almost wholly built with brick but few wooden houses are now to be seen , and those are principally of a date anterior to the Great Fire of 1666. Many of the Squares are ex- tremely ...
... belonging to the nobility , also of stone , are almost wholly built with brick but few wooden houses are now to be seen , and those are principally of a date anterior to the Great Fire of 1666. Many of the Squares are ex- tremely ...
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... belonging to the navy , nor the foreigners who frequent the Port , nor yet the dealers and visitors from the country , who are constantly going to and fro , besides some other classes of persons , which might be easily enumerated ; the ...
... belonging to the navy , nor the foreigners who frequent the Port , nor yet the dealers and visitors from the country , who are constantly going to and fro , besides some other classes of persons , which might be easily enumerated ; the ...
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... belonging to the Priory of Lewes , in Sussex , whereof he was tenant at will , paying xx . S. by the year , without being bounden to reparations or other charges . " In the year 1277 , an Order of Common Council was made , said to be ...
... belonging to the Priory of Lewes , in Sussex , whereof he was tenant at will , paying xx . S. by the year , without being bounden to reparations or other charges . " In the year 1277 , an Order of Common Council was made , said to be ...
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... belonging to Religious Establishments , or the Church . Rym . Fod . Vol . V. p . 520 . + But very few of the higher classes of the community suffered , as may be seen in the Hist . of Edward the Third , by Joshua Barnes , Book I. C. ...
... belonging to Religious Establishments , or the Church . Rym . Fod . Vol . V. p . 520 . + But very few of the higher classes of the community suffered , as may be seen in the Hist . of Edward the Third , by Joshua Barnes , Book I. C. ...
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... belonging to himself or any other person ; to purchase two hundred fodders of lead for their pipes , & c . and to press into their service plumbers , masous , and other workmen . † * Stow's London , p . 591. Edit . 1633 . Rym . Fœd ...
... belonging to himself or any other person ; to purchase two hundred fodders of lead for their pipes , & c . and to press into their service plumbers , masous , and other workmen . † * Stow's London , p . 591. Edit . 1633 . Rym . Fœd ...
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Página 455 - We do, therefore, with the greatest humility and submission, most earnestly supplicate your Majesty that you will not dismiss us from your presence, without expressing a more favourable opinion of your faithful citizens, and without some comfort, without some prospect at least of redress.
Página 281 - ... manner which his Virtues deserved : • He received the Thanks of both Houses of the British and Irish Parliaments For his Eminent Services rendered to his Country and to Mankind. Our National Prisons and Hospitals, Improved upon the Suggestions of his Wisdom, Bear Testimony to the solidity of his Judgment And to the Estimation in which he was held In Every Part of the Civilised World, Which he traversed to reduce the sum of Human Misery. From the Throne to the Dungeon his Name was mentioned...
Página 300 - I must affirm, that, since the time of Archimedes, there scarce ever met in one man, in so great a perfection, such a Mechanical Hand, and so Philosophical a Mind.
Página 294 - 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 299 - A'unc me jiibtt fortuna expediting 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 230 - to prohibit some unexpert people from presenting the history of the Old Testament, to the great prejudice of the said clergy, who have been at great expense in order to represent it at Christmas.
Página 723 - ... 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 222 - ... a kind of still roar or loud whisper. It is the great exchange of all discourse, and no business whatsoever but is here stirring and afoot. It is the synod of all pates politic, jointed and laid together in most serious posture, and they are not half so busy at the Parliament.
Página 738 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses...
Página 496 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed ? Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.