Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ...

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Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes.
 

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Seite 106 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Seite 99 - English words, — probably identical with those in the district from which the ancestral people came. This Glossary is supposed to have been made out about the middle of last century, but the people retained their peculiar manners and customs for at least 75 years after, or down to the end of the first quarter of the present century. We have mentioned that the dialect of Forth and Bargy was referred to by Stannihurst 300 years ago ; that is to say, four centuries after their original settlement...
Seite 106 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Seite 107 - But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay. And there, forlorn, despairing, hid, I'll lay me down and die: 'Twas so for me that Edwin did, And so for him will I.
Seite 58 - ... great part of the Continent. Prof. Whitney, who strongly controverts the theory, lays stress on a further difficulty, which he states thus : — " Who " does not see that in the slow and gradual process by which, " under the influence of a change of climatic conditions, one " species of tree would come to prevail over another, the " supplanter would not inherit the title of the supplanted, " but would acquire one of its own, the two subsisting " together during the period of the struggle, and...
Seite 127 - Twill whisper in her ear, and all the scene unfold. Lo ! now with state she utters the command ; Eftsoons the urchins to their tasks repair ; Their books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are, To save from fingers wet the letters fair : The work so gay, that on their back is seen, St.
Seite 125 - A thousand hearts are great within my bosom: Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair St. George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
Seite 5 - Inscriptions are commonly dug up that this hobbling rhyme of the Inhabitants does not seem to be altogether groundless : — It is written upon a wall in Rome Ribchester was as rich as any town in Christendom.
Seite 68 - Lime, belongs to a Teutonic series "connected with Ic. and Sw. Linda, a band, and AS lithe, " pliant. . . . The name has evidently been applied to " the inner bark, or bast, of the tree so much used in the " North for cordage. In the Herbals, and all old works " after Chaucer's time, it is spelt Lyne or Line, as in the " ballad of Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, where it " rhymes to ' thine,' " " Now tell me thy name, good fellow...
Seite 91 - Anglesea alone but a considerable piece of mainland is omitted, by his line drawn from one of these stations to the other. Ah ! But some one says, What about Tacitus ? True, Tacitus mentions Anglesea ; but you know he was blowing his father-in-law's trumpet; he was praising Agricola, not writing geography. This is by no means the only case in which I have found the geography of Tacitus at fault. He had to carry the Roman soldiers to...

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