The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, المجلد 7،الجزء 1Verner & Hood, 1808 |
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... says Camden , " what common report affirms of the many Roman coins , statues of gold and silver , vessels , mar- ble pillars , cornices , and wonderful monuments of ancient art , dug up here , I should scarcely be believed . " In this ...
... says Camden , " what common report affirms of the many Roman coins , statues of gold and silver , vessels , mar- ble pillars , cornices , and wonderful monuments of ancient art , dug up here , I should scarcely be believed . " In this ...
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... says the original historian , " at his own expense , constructed all the buildings , except an old edifice , which he found erected formerly out of the ancient edifices of the heathens . " This edifice , though Paris See his Ancient ...
... says the original historian , " at his own expense , constructed all the buildings , except an old edifice , which he found erected formerly out of the ancient edifices of the heathens . " This edifice , though Paris See his Ancient ...
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... says Matthew Paris , was twenty miles in circumference , " as the writings of the King , now preserved in this Church , can testify ; " and for this estate he had procured exemption from the payment of Rome - Scot , or Pe- ter - pence ...
... says Matthew Paris , was twenty miles in circumference , " as the writings of the King , now preserved in this Church , can testify ; " and for this estate he had procured exemption from the payment of Rome - Scot , or Pe- ter - pence ...
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... says Paris , " who , according to their custom , lived upon pasties of flesh - mcat , he prevented all inordinate eating , " by stinting the quantity ; " and ise heaped up a dish for them all in common , of which the mere appellation ...
... says Paris , " who , according to their custom , lived upon pasties of flesh - mcat , he prevented all inordinate eating , " by stinting the quantity ; " and ise heaped up a dish for them all in common , of which the mere appellation ...
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... says our author , speaking of the Abbot , " to give a miraculous proof of his genius , of his learning , and of his manual operations , with great labour , greater expense , and very great art , he formed such a fabric of a Clock , that ...
... says our author , speaking of the Abbot , " to give a miraculous proof of his genius , of his learning , and of his manual operations , with great labour , greater expense , and very great art , he formed such a fabric of a Clock , that ...
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الصفحة 381 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
الصفحة 574 - Day she was dressed in white Silk, bordered with Pearls of the Size of Beans, and over it a Mantle of black Silk, shot with Silver Threads; her Train was very long, the End of it borne by a Marchioness; instead of a Chain, she had an oblong Collar of Gold and Jewels.
الصفحة 377 - And yet I lived to see this very gentleman, whom out of no ill will to him I thus describe, by multiplied good successes and by real (but usurped) power (having had a better tailor and more converse among good company) in my own eye, when for six weeks together I was a prisoner in his sergeant's hands and daily waited at Whitehall, appear of a great and majestic deportment and comely presence.
الصفحة 385 - are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters and such kind of fellows and,' said I, 'their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?
الصفحة 574 - ... next came the queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow; and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar...
الصفحة 118 - England, shall undergo fine and ransom of fortythousand pounds, that he shall be imprisoned 'in the Tower during the king's pleasure, that he shall for ever be incapable of any office or employment in the state or commonwealth, and that he shall never sit in parliament^ or come within the verge of the court.
الصفحة 377 - House well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and' not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar. His hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to...
الصفحة 432 - A Declaration of the free and well-affected People of England now in Arms ' (or shortly to be in Arms) ' against the tyrant Oliver Cromwell...
الصفحة 384 - And thus being well armed within by the satisfaction of their own consciences, and without, by good iron arms, they would as one man stand firmly and charge desperately.
الصفحة 427 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.