The Etymological Compendium, Or, Portfolio of Origins and Inventions .. Containing a Particular Account of London and Its Public Buildings ...T. Tegg, 1830 - 356 Seiten |
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... Henry VIIIth had been one before him * ) , by citing some curious instances , abundantly venerable in point of an- tiquity . He contends that Enoch had erected two pillars , the one of stone , the other of brick , on which he wrote of ...
... Henry VIIIth had been one before him * ) , by citing some curious instances , abundantly venerable in point of an- tiquity . He contends that Enoch had erected two pillars , the one of stone , the other of brick , on which he wrote of ...
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... Henry the Eighth , had a seal of gold affixed to it . Bulls containing matter of grace and favour , were suspended by strings of red and yellow silk ; but denunciatory and punitive bulls were hung by hempen cords . BIBLES . In the reign ...
... Henry the Eighth , had a seal of gold affixed to it . Bulls containing matter of grace and favour , were suspended by strings of red and yellow silk ; but denunciatory and punitive bulls were hung by hempen cords . BIBLES . In the reign ...
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... Henry 2d ) for causing both their shields and saddles to be painted with beau- tiful representations of combats , that they might satiate their eyes with the prospect of what they were too dastardly to engage in . The illumination of ...
... Henry 2d ) for causing both their shields and saddles to be painted with beau- tiful representations of combats , that they might satiate their eyes with the prospect of what they were too dastardly to engage in . The illumination of ...
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... Henry VIII . and painted portraits of most of the English nobility . He died at his house in Whitehall , in the year 1554 , and was buried with much solemnity . In the reign of James I. Cornelius Jansens arrived in England from Holland ...
... Henry VIII . and painted portraits of most of the English nobility . He died at his house in Whitehall , in the year 1554 , and was buried with much solemnity . In the reign of James I. Cornelius Jansens arrived in England from Holland ...
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... Henry IV . of France , with Mary de Medecis ; and Pietro del Velle , a Roman knight , an amateur musician , who , in 1640 , published an able historical disquisition on the science , ex- pressly says , the first dramatic action ever ...
... Henry IV . of France , with Mary de Medecis ; and Pietro del Velle , a Roman knight , an amateur musician , who , in 1640 , published an able historical disquisition on the science , ex- pressly says , the first dramatic action ever ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 169 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
Seite 152 - 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 320 - 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 89 - 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 324 - Oh, what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame, I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart : I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
Seite 73 - 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 8 - 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 120 - Third to steal a hawk. To take its eggs even in a person's own ground, was punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, together with a fine at the king's pleasure. In...
Seite 46 - I seem to remember having been told, that a bad sweep was once left in a stack with his brush, to indicate which way the wind blew. It was an awful spectacle certainly ; not much unlike the old stage direction in Macbeth, where the " Apparition of a child crowned with a tree in his hand rises.
Seite 60 - I have been up all night (replied the old bard) ; my musical friends made me promise to write them an ode for their Feast of St. Cecilia : I have been so struck with the subject which occurred to me, that I could not leave it till I had completed it ; here it is finished at one sitting.