The Family Topographer: The western circuit: Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Somersetshire, Wiltshire. 1832J.B. Nichols and Son, 1832 |
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89 ページ - Devonshire, was held by the Martin family by service of finding a man with a bow and three arrows to attend the earl of Gloucester when he was hunting in the neighborhood.
235 ページ - Here lies the famous King Arthur, buried in the isle of Avalon.
22 ページ - Duke in this kingdom > and in 1337, the Duchy settled by Act of Parliament on the eldest son of the King, who, from the day of his birth, has entire livery of all the possessions connected with the Duchy, including the duty on the coinage of tin.
236 ページ - Alfred the Great, AD 879, on this summit erected his standard against Danish invaders ; to him we owe the origin of juries, and the creation of a naval force. Alfred, the light of a benighted age, was a philosopher, and a Christian ; the father of his people, and the founder of the English monarchy and liberties.
130 ページ - By Wolsey's gift I measure time for all ; To mirth, to grief, to church, I serve to call.
223 ページ - If you will yet deliver up the Castle, you shall have fair quarter ; if not, expect no mercy, your Mother shall be in the front to receive the first fury of your cannon : we expect your answer.
182 ページ - This watch is still preserved in the family: it is of silver, large and clumsy in its form, but the case neatly ornamented with fillagree. The movements are of very ordinary workmanship, and the spring is wound up with catgut.
240 ページ - Taunton bore him, London bred him, Piety train'd him, virtue led him ; Earth enrich'd him, heaven cares't him, Taunton blest him, London blest him. This thankful town, that mindful city, Share his piety and his pity. What he gave, and how he gave it, Ask the poor, and you shall have it. Gentle reader, heaven may strike Thy tender heart to do the like ; And now thy eyes have read the story, Give him the praise and heaven the glory.
193 ページ - THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. By the Rev. GILBERT WHITE, MA The Standard Edition by BENNETT. Thoroughly Revised, with Additional Notes, by JAMES EDMUND HARTING, FLS, FZS, author of "A Handbook of British Birds," " The Ornithology of Shakespeare,
87 ページ - ... wild unfolded itself: a valley, bounded by large naked rocks, or rather fragments of rocks, piled one upon another. The heights on each side are of a mountainous magnitude, but composed, to all appearance, of loose, unequal masses, which form here and there rude natural columns, and are fantastically arranged along the summits, so as to resemble extensive ruins impending over the pass.