A History of Bromley in Kent, and the Surrounding Neighbourhood ... with an Account of the Colleges ...

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Strong, 1858 - 146 Seiten
 

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Seite 43 - Church was erected in the year 1835, containing 323 sittings, and in consequence of a grant from the incorporated Society for promoting the enlargement, building and repairing of Churches and Chapels , 193 of that number are hereby declared to be free and unappropriated for ever.
Seite 75 - Talbot county, for maintaining and teaching poor children to read write and account, and instructing them in the knowledge and practice of the Christian religion, as professed and taught in the Church of England...
Seite 62 - ... the necessaries of life : to him she afforded the protection of a mother. This parental charity was returned with filial affection ; and she was supported, in the feebleness of age, by him whom she had cherished in the helplessness of infancy.
Seite 54 - Time, who is impatient to date my last paper, will shortly moulder the hand which is now writing it in the dust, and still the breast that now throbs at the reflection. But let not this be read as something that relates only to another ; for a few years only can divide the eye that is now reading from the hand that has written.
Seite 62 - Near this Place lies the Body of ELIZABETH MONK, "Who departed this Life On the 27th Day of August, 1753, Aged 101 : She was the Widow of JOHN MONK, late of...
Seite 99 - Another of bishop Warner's foundations was that of four scholarships in Baliol college, Oxford, for four young men of Scotland, to be chosen from time to time by the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of Rochester. Each was to have 20/. yearly...
Seite 108 - At the mouth, and thence downward, they are narrow, like the tunnel or passage of a well; but at the bottom they are large, and of great compass; insomuch, that some of them have several rooms, or partitions, one within another, strongly vaulted, and supported with pillars of • •• • chalk.
Seite 99 - ... of this college, these scholars were first placed in Gloucester hall (now Worcester college), and there was a design to have made that a college for their use; but, in the mastership of Dr. Thomas Good, in 1672, they were removed to Baliol. Bishop Warner is said to have been an accurate logician, philosopher, and well versed in the fathers and schoolmen. He was a man of a decided character, equally cheerful and undaunted. In his manner he had less of the courtier than of the kind friend, always...
Seite 36 - I shrewdly suspect that the state of your health principally depends upon your situation. The near approach of the tide, as well as the mud which is left exposed at every reflux of the water, renders the climate unwholesome. Your library, too, is surrounded with glass windows, which let the keen air through the crevices.

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