Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... observe con- cerning ourselves , from the same author , in the ' Life of Agricola . ' And more directly from Stra- bo ; who , to the dishonour of our predecessors and the disparagement of those that glory in the antiquity of their ...
... observe con- cerning ourselves , from the same author , in the ' Life of Agricola . ' And more directly from Stra- bo ; who , to the dishonour of our predecessors and the disparagement of those that glory in the antiquity of their ...
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... observe , that some of the states or provinces existing here at that period de- puted ambassadors to deprecate the vehemence of the tyrant : thus establishing a custom but seldom departed from since that time . " Cæsar's Com- mentaries ...
... observe , that some of the states or provinces existing here at that period de- puted ambassadors to deprecate the vehemence of the tyrant : thus establishing a custom but seldom departed from since that time . " Cæsar's Com- mentaries ...
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... observed , that had his moderation been equal to his birth and prosperity , he had then entered Rome as a visitor , and not as a captive . He con- fessed his situation to be humiliating in propor- tion to the Emperor's success : said he ...
... observed , that had his moderation been equal to his birth and prosperity , he had then entered Rome as a visitor , and not as a captive . He con- fessed his situation to be humiliating in propor- tion to the Emperor's success : said he ...
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... observed , under pain of his displeasure and a heavy fine . The learned Selden explains the origin of the word neighbour , which we are accustomed to use in a very different sense from that he assigns to it . Friburg , or borgh ...
... observed , under pain of his displeasure and a heavy fine . The learned Selden explains the origin of the word neighbour , which we are accustomed to use in a very different sense from that he assigns to it . Friburg , or borgh ...
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... observation , that frequent fires must have been the consequence . One advantage might have resulted to the English from the conquest of their country , had they been inclined to imi- tate the temperance and sobriety of the Normans ...
... observation , that frequent fires must have been the consequence . One advantage might have resulted to the English from the conquest of their country , had they been inclined to imi- tate the temperance and sobriety of the Normans ...
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220 ページ - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
190 ページ - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
186 ページ - I inquire of it, and hearken for it; but now charity is waxen cold, none helpeth the scholar, nor yet the poor.
194 ページ - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor.
186 ページ - But London was never so ill as it is now. In times past men were full of pity and compassion, but now there is no pity; for in London their brother shall die in the streets for cold, he shall lie sick at the door between stock and stock, I cannot tell what to call it, and perish there for hunger: was there ever more unmercifulness in Nebo?
243 ページ - Colonel Hutchinson privately discoursing with his cousin about the communications he had had with the king, Ireton's expressions were these: " He gave us words, and we paid him in his own coin, when we found he had no real intention to the people's good, but to prevail by our factions, to regain by art what he had lost in fight.
193 ページ - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field.
230 ページ - Hearing her so much deplored, he made inquiry after her, and grew so in love with the description that no other discourse could at first please him, nor could he at last endure any other ; he grew desperately melancholy, and would go to a mount where the print of her foot was cut, and lie there pining and kissing of it all the day long, till at length death, in some months' space, concluded his languishment.
352 ページ - April, in the 17th year of the reign of our sovereign lord Charles the Second by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.
418 ページ - In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c., the ancients sitting gravely by, and looking on. All things were civil, and without scandal.