Old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places, by W. Thornbury (E. Walford). |
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... held there - The Militia Barracks - Mrs . Tennyson - Christ Church- The Wells - Concerts and Balls - Irregular Marriages - The Raffling Shops - Well Walk - John Constable - John Keats - Geological Formation of the Northern Heights . 462 ...
... held there - The Militia Barracks - Mrs . Tennyson - Christ Church- The Wells - Concerts and Balls - Irregular Marriages - The Raffling Shops - Well Walk - John Constable - John Keats - Geological Formation of the Northern Heights . 462 ...
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... held them only a year , was not only an orator , but a wit , as the following anecdote will show : -Captain Parry was once at dinner in his company , when Lord Erskine asked him what he and his crew lived upon in the Frozen Sea . Parry ...
... held them only a year , was not only an orator , but a wit , as the following anecdote will show : -Captain Parry was once at dinner in his company , when Lord Erskine asked him what he and his crew lived upon in the Frozen Sea . Parry ...
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... held lands here , and possibly may have built a bridge for the use of the monks of Westminster , to whom he devised . a portion of his acres . That such was the case we learn from a charter preserved in the British Museum , which ...
... held lands here , and possibly may have built a bridge for the use of the monks of Westminster , to whom he devised . a portion of his acres . That such was the case we learn from a charter preserved in the British Museum , which ...
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... held in his own hands almost the entire administrative power of chairman , board , manager , and all . Mr. Hudson was voted praises , testi- monials , and surplus shares alike liberally , and scarcely a word against him could find a ...
... held in his own hands almost the entire administrative power of chairman , board , manager , and all . Mr. Hudson was voted praises , testi- monials , and surplus shares alike liberally , and scarcely a word against him could find a ...
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... held at Knightsbridge every Thursday till an early year in the present century , and that the last pen posts were not removed till 1850 . The air of this neighbourhood has always been regarded as pure and healthy . Swift brought his ...
... held at Knightsbridge every Thursday till an early year in the present century , and that the last pen posts were not removed till 1850 . The air of this neighbourhood has always been regarded as pure and healthy . Swift brought his ...
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