Buckinghamshire: A History of Aylesbury with Its Borough and Hundreds, the Hamlet of Walton, and the Electoral Division

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1885 - 688 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 677 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious earth. "A city stands on Argos...
الصفحة 43 - We will go into his tabernacle, and fall low on our knees before his footstool. 8 Arise, O LORD, into thy resting-place ; thou, and the ark of thy strength. 9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness ; and let thy saints sing with joyfulness.
الصفحة 564 - I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o
الصفحة 530 - And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely ; who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
الصفحة 91 - Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern, on the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of stones. They immediately fell into a deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged without injuring the powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven years.
الصفحة 585 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
الصفحة 200 - Worcester, and his son, had been malicious, unchristian, and arbitrary, in high violation of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of England.
الصفحة 547 - The beadle, who performed it. had filled his left hand with red ochre, through which after every stroke he drew the lash of his whip, leaving the appearance of a wound upon the skin, but in reality not hurting him at all.
الصفحة 112 - England, have now of late been made by very great, outrageous, and excessive number of people dwelling within the same counties of the realm of England, of the which most part was of people of small substance, and of no value, whereof every of them pretended a voice equivalent, as to such elections to be made, with the most worthy knights and esquires, dwelling within the same counties...
الصفحة 453 - ... before some justice of the peace to be dealt with according to law, and that justice shall with all convenient despatch try the case in a summary manner.

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