The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 1, Volume 13Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... mayor and two bailiffs are an- nually chosen by the burgesses on St. Luke's day . Towards the end of the last century many trials at law were had between the burgesses and the common council , upon the construction of the charter , i ...
... mayor and two bailiffs are an- nually chosen by the burgesses on St. Luke's day . Towards the end of the last century many trials at law were had between the burgesses and the common council , upon the construction of the charter , i ...
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... mayor and aldermen made to this writ showed , so satisfactorily , that both London and all other walled cities and towns now possessed this right , that it was again solemnly recognized and confirmed by the king . In the same charter by ...
... mayor and aldermen made to this writ showed , so satisfactorily , that both London and all other walled cities and towns now possessed this right , that it was again solemnly recognized and confirmed by the king . In the same charter by ...
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... mayor , the celebrated Whittington , at an entertainment given at Guildhall to the hero of Agincourt , threw into a fire of spices , bonds which he held from that monarch , for money advanced , to the amount of no less than £ 60,000 ...
... mayor , the celebrated Whittington , at an entertainment given at Guildhall to the hero of Agincourt , threw into a fire of spices , bonds which he held from that monarch , for money advanced , to the amount of no less than £ 60,000 ...
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... mayor of London ' ( 1419 ) , and although there is no trace of any repeal , in the interim , of the prohibitory statute , the importation of coal formed a con- siderable branch of the commerce of the Thames . ' As early as 1421 , ' says ...
... mayor of London ' ( 1419 ) , and although there is no trace of any repeal , in the interim , of the prohibitory statute , the importation of coal formed a con- siderable branch of the commerce of the Thames . ' As early as 1421 , ' says ...
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... mayor's household , whose duty it is to take care of a pack of hounds , which the corporation is entitled to keep . The exercise of hunting is now little indulged in by the citizens , ' not , however , ' says Stowe , for want of taste ...
... mayor's household , whose duty it is to take care of a pack of hounds , which the corporation is entitled to keep . The exercise of hunting is now little indulged in by the citizens , ' not , however , ' says Stowe , for want of taste ...
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Page 168 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 168 - And, seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me.
Page 290 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 41 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 304 - Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb ; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away!
Page 2 - We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart of man to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for him. The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines ' that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it : and can there be a thought so transporting, as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to him, who is not only the standard of perfection but of happiness ! ADDISON.
Page 93 - Vociferated logic kills me quite, A noisy man is always in the right : I twirl my thumbs, fall back into my chair, Fix on the wainscot a distressful stare, And when I hope his blunders are all out, Reply discreetly — To be sure — no doubt...
Page 79 - ... attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire, killed every person in it. This happened to be the family of Logan, who had long been distinguished as a friend of the whites.
Page 174 - But this is but one ; it is scarce credible what dreadful cases happened in particular families every day. People in the rage of the distemper, or in the torment of their swellings, which was indeed intolerable, running out of their own government, raving and distracted, and oftentimes laying violent hands upon themselves, throwing themselves out at their windows, shooting themselves, &c. ; mothers murdering their own children in their lunacy...
Page 266 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...