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... granted to her jeweller , John Speilman , the right to erect a paper - mill at Dartford . So late as the middle of the last century , only common wrapping - paper was manufactured in Great Britain . It was not until 1770 , that the ...
... granted to her jeweller , John Speilman , the right to erect a paper - mill at Dartford . So late as the middle of the last century , only common wrapping - paper was manufactured in Great Britain . It was not until 1770 , that the ...
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... granted his licence to twelve bor- dillos or stews , having signs painted on their walls , to distinguish them and invite the passenger . ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE CHANDOS PORTRAIT OF SHAKSPEARE . It was first in the possession of Sir ...
... granted his licence to twelve bor- dillos or stews , having signs painted on their walls , to distinguish them and invite the passenger . ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE CHANDOS PORTRAIT OF SHAKSPEARE . It was first in the possession of Sir ...
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... granted them his royal protection to exercise their trade of clock - making in any part of his kingdom , without molestation . - Rymer's Fœdera , vol . vi . p . 590 . Pocket watches were first brought to England from Germany in 1577 ...
... granted them his royal protection to exercise their trade of clock - making in any part of his kingdom , without molestation . - Rymer's Fœdera , vol . vi . p . 590 . Pocket watches were first brought to England from Germany in 1577 ...
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... granted a patent to Laurence Fletcher , William Shakspeare , Richard Burbage ( the first performer of Richard the Third ) , Augustine Phillipes , John Hemmings , Hen- rie Condell , William Sly , Robert Armin , and Richard Cowlie , and ...
... granted a patent to Laurence Fletcher , William Shakspeare , Richard Burbage ( the first performer of Richard the Third ) , Augustine Phillipes , John Hemmings , Hen- rie Condell , William Sly , Robert Armin , and Richard Cowlie , and ...
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... granted in 1829 , which appoints the Lord Chancellor and eight others as perpetual governors . The corporation is designated as " The Governors and Proprietors of King's College , London . " It was opened for tuition in October , 1829 ...
... granted in 1829 , which appoints the Lord Chancellor and eight others as perpetual governors . The corporation is designated as " The Governors and Proprietors of King's College , London . " It was opened for tuition in October , 1829 ...
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Seite 213 - The insurance offices one and all shut up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world. Thus this custom of firing houses continued...
Seite 212 - The ears of Ho-ti tingled with horror. He cursed his son, and he cursed himself that ever he should beget a son that should eat burnt pig. Bo-bo, whose scent was wonderfully sharpened since morning, soon raked out another pig, and fairly rending it asunder, thrust the lesser half by main force into the fists of Ho-ti, still shouting out, 'Eat, eat, eat the burnt pig, father, only taste — O Lord!
Seite 25 - When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Seite 213 - ... pronounced, when the foreman of the jury begged that some of the burnt pig, of which the culprits stood accused, might be handed into the box. He handled it, and they all handled it, and burning their fingers, as Bo-bo and his father had done before them, and nature prompting to each of them the same remedy, against the face of all the facts, and the clearest charge which judge had ever given — to the surprise of the whole court, townsfolk, strangers, reporters, and all present — without...
Seite 130 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First, his Cromwell — and George the Third'* — (' Treason,' cried the speaker — ' Treason, treason !' echoed from every part of the house.
Seite 213 - Ho-ti himself, which was the more remarkable, instead of chastising his son, seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever. At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize town.
Seite 211 - I take to be the elder brother) was accidentally discovered in the manner following. The swine-herd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast for his hogs, left his cottage in the care of his eldest son Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, who being fond of playing with fire, as...
Seite 425 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Seite 112 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land.
Seite 96 - I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.