Advertiser Notes and Queries, Volumen1"Advertiser" Office, 1881 |
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... four shillings a week . I have not been clearly informed of the weekly value of this article , but from the numbers of putters - out in the Farish when this business was in the greatest pros . perity , I think fifty pounds a week was ...
... four shillings a week . I have not been clearly informed of the weekly value of this article , but from the numbers of putters - out in the Farish when this business was in the greatest pros . perity , I think fifty pounds a week was ...
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... four large branches , nearly at equal distances , each itself being a large tree . The trunk , immediately above the ground , was 41 feet in circumference , and at 12 feet high 32 feet in circumference . It was hollow , and would ...
... four large branches , nearly at equal distances , each itself being a large tree . The trunk , immediately above the ground , was 41 feet in circumference , and at 12 feet high 32 feet in circumference . It was hollow , and would ...
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... four very curious recum bent figures , much decayed , the two central ones being a knight and his wife , whom the legend in- scribed on the arched canopy above them identifies with Randulf Brereton and his wife Ada , daugh- ter of ...
... four very curious recum bent figures , much decayed , the two central ones being a knight and his wife , whom the legend in- scribed on the arched canopy above them identifies with Randulf Brereton and his wife Ada , daugh- ter of ...
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... four footpaths intersect each other at this spot and running to the four points of the compass may indicate something as to its antiquity . The north going straight to Baguley , the south coming out on to the Wilmslow Road almost ...
... four footpaths intersect each other at this spot and running to the four points of the compass may indicate something as to its antiquity . The north going straight to Baguley , the south coming out on to the Wilmslow Road almost ...
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... four places named stand very much in a straight line . " Lung " reads long . R. 66 ROCK CAVES IN STOCKPort . ( Query No. 167. April 2. ) [ 166. ] More than 40 years ago I was talking with He passed his Mr Deaville ( he was then in years ) ...
... four places named stand very much in a straight line . " Lung " reads long . R. 66 ROCK CAVES IN STOCKPort . ( Query No. 167. April 2. ) [ 166. ] More than 40 years ago I was talking with He passed his Mr Deaville ( he was then in years ) ...
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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.