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... Companies or Merchant Guilds , though branches of the Corporation , have each a distinct government and peculiar liberties and immunities granted in special charters . Each Company has a Master and other officers , and separate Halls ...
... Companies or Merchant Guilds , though branches of the Corporation , have each a distinct government and peculiar liberties and immunities granted in special charters . Each Company has a Master and other officers , and separate Halls ...
Page xxix
... Companies , and private houses built by Wren . With the landing of William III . the Dutch style of regular windows and flat - topped uniform brick fronts was intro- duced , which gradually deteriorated from the comfortable quaint ...
... Companies , and private houses built by Wren . With the landing of William III . the Dutch style of regular windows and flat - topped uniform brick fronts was intro- duced , which gradually deteriorated from the comfortable quaint ...
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... Companies , the Learned Societies or the great houses of the West End ; but most of all in rambles through the ancient bye - ways of the City . There are many more , espe- cially young men , for whom time in London hangs very heavy ...
... Companies , the Learned Societies or the great houses of the West End ; but most of all in rambles through the ancient bye - ways of the City . There are many more , espe- cially young men , for whom time in London hangs very heavy ...
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... company of the craft before he can apply himself to making shoes for his customers , and a man may keep an oyster - stall without being forced to serve an apprenticeship and be admitted to the Livery of the great Whig Company ; but the ...
... company of the craft before he can apply himself to making shoes for his customers , and a man may keep an oyster - stall without being forced to serve an apprenticeship and be admitted to the Livery of the great Whig Company ; but the ...
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... Company , and here they remained in the house built for them by Sir Christopher Wren for seventy - two years , till in 1782 they moved to Somerset House . " The promotion of inoculation received its attention from 1714 to 1722 ...
... Company , and here they remained in the house built for them by Sir Christopher Wren for seventy - two years , till in 1782 they moved to Somerset House . " The promotion of inoculation received its attention from 1714 to 1722 ...
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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 64 - And on his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
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 67 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour 168 Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Page 120 - CAPTAIN or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, 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...
Page 224 - To drive up to the door, lest all Should say that she was proud. So three doors off the chaise was stayed.
Page 228 - She looks, and her heart is in heaven : but they fade. The mist and the river, the hill and the shade : The stream will not flow, and the hill will not rise, And the colours have all passed away from her eyes ! WORDSWORTH.
Page 230 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life!