Advertiser Notes and Queries, Volumen1"Advertiser" Office, 1881 |
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... building : " Torn from the tower where long we hung , And borne on our sledge away , One tuneful voices all unstrung , We've lingered many a day . No more with cheerful solemn sound The Sabbath we di care , Nor call the pious folk ...
... building : " Torn from the tower where long we hung , And borne on our sledge away , One tuneful voices all unstrung , We've lingered many a day . No more with cheerful solemn sound The Sabbath we di care , Nor call the pious folk ...
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... building , and was built in the half- timbered style . It was customary in ancient times , I believe , in many , if not all parishes , to send men round the distriot or town to waken the inhabitants on the morning of the day which was ...
... building , and was built in the half- timbered style . It was customary in ancient times , I believe , in many , if not all parishes , to send men round the distriot or town to waken the inhabitants on the morning of the day which was ...
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... buildings than most other counties , there are without doubt many specimens of crooks to be found , and it would be as well if some of the most remarkable were put upon record , for it is long since this style of building has ceased ...
... buildings than most other counties , there are without doubt many specimens of crooks to be found , and it would be as well if some of the most remarkable were put upon record , for it is long since this style of building has ceased ...
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... building , at a place called Disley Kirk , upon the river Bolin , below the junction of that river with the Handforth water , with a large water - wheel , for carding and slubbing cotton wool , and spinning it into twist for warp ...
... building , at a place called Disley Kirk , upon the river Bolin , below the junction of that river with the Handforth water , with a large water - wheel , for carding and slubbing cotton wool , and spinning it into twist for warp ...
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... building to accommodate the farmers on a market day , except a low and miserable room in the Dungeon Brow . And certainly is it not a ludicrous spectacle at the October Fair to see the mayor and aldermen and gentry of Stockport march ...
... building to accommodate the farmers on a market day , except a low and miserable room in the Dungeon Brow . And certainly is it not a ludicrous spectacle at the October Fair to see the mayor and aldermen and gentry of Stockport march ...
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Página 197 - If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the book of life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Página 197 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Página 197 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away.
Página 197 - Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But when he took his seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them.
Página 197 - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Página 197 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion, the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 197 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Página 197 - ... existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face.
Página 197 - People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.
Página 92 - ... but seeking one to come; that they, remembering the short continuance of their life, may be content with that that is sufficient, and not join house to house, nor couple land to land, to the impoverishment of other, but so behave themselves in letting out their tenements, lands, and pastures, that after this life they may be received into everlasting dwelling places : through Jesus Christ our Lord.