Records of Old Times: Historical, Social, Political, Sporting and AgriculturalChatto & Windus, 1898 - 238 Seiten |
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Seite 11 - Therefore, besides all the usual branches of virtuous instruction, they gave her teachers in playing on musical instruments, singing, and dancing, insomuch that, when she composed her hands to play and her voice to sing, it was joined with that sweetness of countenance that three harmonies concurred ; likewise, when she danced, her rare proportions varied themselves into all the graces that belong either to rest or motion.
Seite 97 - This county doth share as deep as any in the alphabet of our English commodities, though exceeding in W. for Wood, Wheat, Wool, and Water. Besides, this shire better answereth (as to the sound thereof) the name of Pomerania than the dukedom of Germany so called, being a continued orchard of apple-trees, whereof much cider is made...
Seite 34 - Wellington is supposed to have said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Seite 69 - ... rights and privileges of the commons of England. She assured them she would not do any thing to give them just cause of complaint ; but this matter relating to the course of judicial proceedings, being of the highest importance, she thought it necessary to weigh and consider very carefully what might be proper for her to do in a thing of so great concern.
Seite 68 - Parliament, neither the qualification of any elector, nor the right of any person elected, is cognizable or determinable elsewhere than before the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, except in such cases as are specially provided for by act of parliament.
Seite 236 - Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea, I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, But oh ! could I love thee more deeply than now...
Seite 227 - The scattered lead pursues the sight, And death in thunder stops their flight; His spaniel of true English kind, With gratitude inflames his mind; This servant in an honest way, In all his actions, copied Tray.
Seite 159 - While these unhappy men were yet struggling for life, an infant, of about nine months' old, was put into the hands of the executioner, who nine times passed the hands of each of the dying men over its face. The child had a wen on its cheek, and the ignorant, superstitious mother conceived it could...
Seite 214 - In those dayes when they went to bed they did rake up the fire and make a cross in the ashes, and pray to God and St. Sythe to deliver them from fire and from water and from all misadventure.
Seite 31 - I believe, the manor of which belongs to this College) where the lord of the manor after the harvest gave half an acre of barley and a ram to the tenants thereof. The which ram, if they caught it, was their own, if not, it was for the lord again.