The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County: pt. 1. Wiltshire |
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Страница 512 - place lyeth the body of Mr. ROBERT CocK, vicar of this parish, who by will left for ever the yearly produce of fifty pounds (which was all that he had) for teaching poor girls to read, and instructing them in the knowledge and practice of the Christian religion, as professed and taught in the church of England.
Страница 188 - should be carried from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the primate, from him to the king, and should be carried no further without the king's consent; that if any lawsuit arose between a layman and a clergyman concerning a tenant, and it be disputed whether
Страница 641 - they have been losing all firmness of principle which might tend to establish the rectitude of their private conduct. As a moralist, therefore, Lord Bolingbroke, by having endeavoured at too much seems to have done nothing ; but as a political writer few can equal, and none can exceed him. As he was a practical
Страница 319 - who has not taken the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, according to the rites of the church of England, within one year before such election, is a void election.
Страница 683 - proceeding in silence for many miles through rough and dirty lanes, they stopped, and the midwife was led into a house, which, from the length of her walk through the apartments, as well as the sounds about her, she discovered to be the scat of wealth and
Страница 641 - first with avidity, nor is it till some time that their disciples begin to find their error. They often, though too late, perceive that they have been following a speculative inquiry, while they have been leaving a practical good ; and while they have been practising the arts of
Страница 278 - fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described, with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection, or incidental meditation.
Страница 641 - prompted him to be a politician, actuated him as a philosopher ; his aims were equally great and extensive in both capacities ; unwilling to submit to any in the one, or any authority in the other; he entered the fields of science with a thorough contempt of all that had been established before him, and seemed willing to think every thing wrong that
Страница 627 - for the right of common, but by prescription, did begin suits in law with the said free tenants for their common, and did vex them with so many suits in law, for the space of seven or eight years at the least, and never suffered any one to come to tryal in all that space, but did
Страница 627 - to the mayor of the town, for the time being, two " cowes feeding, and to the constable one cowes feeding, and to every inhabitant of the said borough one cowes feeding, and no more, as well the poor as the rich, and every one to make and maintain? a certain