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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... France , and Baldwin Earl of Flan- ders . This then was the commencement of tax- ation for the prosecution of foreign hostilities . We are not acquainted exactly with its amount : we are certain , however , that the powers of num- bers ...
... France , and Baldwin Earl of Flan- ders . This then was the commencement of tax- ation for the prosecution of foreign hostilities . We are not acquainted exactly with its amount : we are certain , however , that the powers of num- bers ...
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... France for a scarcity of provisions . Anjou and Maine , two provinces under his domi- nion in that country , severely felt the conse- quences . Those he endeavoured to remove by every means in his power ; and actually procured ...
... France for a scarcity of provisions . Anjou and Maine , two provinces under his domi- nion in that country , severely felt the conse- quences . Those he endeavoured to remove by every means in his power ; and actually procured ...
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... France had commenced the siege of Verneuil in Normandy , then held by the troops of Richard . Exaspe- rated at the intelligence , he vowed he would no : turn his back till he had met the French ; and to accomplish this odd resolution he ...
... France had commenced the siege of Verneuil in Normandy , then held by the troops of Richard . Exaspe- rated at the intelligence , he vowed he would no : turn his back till he had met the French ; and to accomplish this odd resolution he ...
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... France was se- parated from it by a river , and an arm of the sea . The former , impatient for battle , used to advance on the sands with their banners displayed , inviting H their their enemies to cross and meet them . The French 97.
... France was se- parated from it by a river , and an arm of the sea . The former , impatient for battle , used to advance on the sands with their banners displayed , inviting H their their enemies to cross and meet them . The French 97.
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... France ordered his best sol- diers forward to the brink of the stream , and then to retreat to the fields . Such of the English as could bring their arrows to bear upon the enemy shot , and every thing seemed to promise a furious ...
... France ordered his best sol- diers forward to the brink of the stream , and then to retreat to the fields . Such of the English as could bring their arrows to bear upon the enemy shot , and every thing seemed to promise a furious ...
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Страница 220 - ... 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.
Страница 190 - 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.
Страница 186 - I inquire of it, and hearken for it; but now charity is waxen cold, none helpeth the scholar, nor yet the poor.
Страница 194 - 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.
Страница 186 - 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?
Страница 243 - 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.
Страница 193 - 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.
Страница 230 - 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.
Страница 352 - 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.
Страница 418 - 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.