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Страница 217 - The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
Страница 218 - That friend of mine who lives in God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Страница 49 - I had the sight of an Hygre or " ' Eager, a most terrible flush of water, that came up the river " ' with such violence that it sunk a coal vessel in the town, and " ' such a terrible noise that all the dogs in it...
Страница 118 - Hemp and other Seeds, ground or pressed by the numerous Mills in the Isle of Ely, are brought up this River also; and the Cakes, after the Oil is pressed out, afford the Farmer an excellent Manure to improve his Grounds. By the River also they receive 1500 or 2000 Firkins of Butter every Week, from Norfolk and the Isle of Ely, which is sent by Waggons to London...
Страница 26 - Tacitus says the Britons complained that the Romans wore out and consumed their bodies and lands in clearing the woods and banking the fens.
Страница 11 - It is rectangular in shape, being about 24 miles from north to south, and 30 miles from east to west — a total of about 720 square miles.
Страница 47 - A second branch of the river is the Muscat or Catwater, north of Peterborough, known also as the South Ea, or Shire Drain, which is now carried into the . estuary by the North Level main drain at Tydd Gote.
Страница 222 - Therefore tho existence of the house is carried back by them, without fear of error, to the end of the thirteenth or beginning of the fourteenth century, at which period the ancestors of Richard II.
Страница 118 - Lynn: Flesh, Fish, Wild-fowl, Poultry, Butter, Cheese, and all Manner of Provisions, from the adjacent Country : Firing is cheap ; Coals from Seven-pence to Nine-pence a Bushel ; Turf, or rather Peat, four Shillings a Thousand ; Sedge, with which the Bakers heat their Ovens, four Shillings per hundred Sheaves : These, together with Osiers, Reeds and Rushes used in several Trades, are daily imported by the River Grant. Great Quantities of Oil, made of Flax-Seed, Cole-Seed, Hemp and other Seeds, ground...
Страница 100 - In these fens are several of those admirable contrivances called decoys, in which it is incredible what quantities of duck, teal, wigeon, and all kinds of wild-fowl, are taken every week during the season. There is one near Ely which lets for ^500 a year, and from that alone they generally send up to London 3000 couple a week.