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... given for the name London . Some derive it from Lhwn - dinas , the " City in the Wood ; " others from Llongdinas , the " City of Ships ; " others from Llyn- dùn , the " Hill Fortress by the Lake . " Geoffrey of Mon- mouth says that ...
... given for the name London . Some derive it from Lhwn - dinas , the " City in the Wood ; " others from Llongdinas , the " City of Ships ; " others from Llyn- dùn , the " Hill Fortress by the Lake . " Geoffrey of Mon- mouth says that ...
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... given an impulse to brick and terra - cotta decoration , which has been capitally followed out in several new houses in Cheapside , Oxford Street , Bond Street , and South Audley Street , and which is the beginning of a school of ...
... given an impulse to brick and terra - cotta decoration , which has been capitally followed out in several new houses in Cheapside , Oxford Street , Bond Street , and South Audley Street , and which is the beginning of a school of ...
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... given a better turn to the street now called Northumberland Avenue , and have saved the finest great historical house in London , “ com- menced by a Howard , continued by a Percy , and completed by a Seymour " the house in which the ...
... given a better turn to the street now called Northumberland Avenue , and have saved the finest great historical house in London , “ com- menced by a Howard , continued by a Percy , and completed by a Seymour " the house in which the ...
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... given to them by Mary . The Archbishops , however , scarcely ever lived here . They let it to the Lords Keepers of the Great Seal , and thus it was that Sir Nicholas Bacon came to reside at York House , and that his son , the great Lord ...
... given to them by Mary . The Archbishops , however , scarcely ever lived here . They let it to the Lords Keepers of the Great Seal , and thus it was that Sir Nicholas Bacon came to reside at York House , and that his son , the great Lord ...
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... given up to flowers , or the avenue devoted to fruit , is most radiant in freshness and colour . How many London painters , unable to go farther afield , have come hither with profit to study effects of colour , which the piles of fruit ...
... given up to flowers , or the avenue devoted to fruit , is most radiant in freshness and colour . How many London painters , unable to go farther afield , have come hither with profit to study effects of colour , which the piles of fruit ...
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Page 409 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings ; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 199 - The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD : And he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down : For the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
Page 307 - And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened ; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 265 - Of these the false Achitophel was first: A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay: And o'er informed the tenement of clay.
Page 427 - ... last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forced to stand still, and let the flames burn on, which they did, for near two miles in length and one in breadth.
Page 185 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 228 - THE REVERIE OF POOR SUSAN AT the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years : Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the Bird.
Page 304 - Yet e'en in transitory life's late day, That mingles all my brown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose pilgrim marks the road, And guides the progress of the soul to God.
Page 426 - We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side of the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it.
Page 120 - Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses...