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Seite 44 - I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north ; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife " Fie upon this quiet life ! I want work.
Seite xi - If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.
Seite 136 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Seite 235 - I trust through him alone Salvation to obtaine; So brittle is the State of Man, so soon it doth decay, So all the Glory of this World must pass and fade away. Round the Verge of the Stone is this: This Robert Pursglove, sometime Bishop of Hull, deceased the 2nd Day of May in the Year of our Lord God 1579.
Seite 68 - Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Seite 135 - Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Seite xi - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Seite 109 - Mr. Joseph Hancock, to show to what other uses the copper plated in this new method might be applied, and how successfully it was possible to imitate the finest and most richly embossed plate.
Seite 172 - The two most characteristic and numerous of these terminals are "thorpe" and "by." (1). There are no less than 55 townships in the East Riding ending in thorpe. When we consider that the far larger area of Lincolnshire contains only 63, the West and North Ridings of Yorkshire together only 47, and the whole of the rest of England about 125, we see at once that, geologically speaking, this terminal is the characteristic fossil of the East Riding. The word "Thorp...
Seite 91 - Leeds is a large town, severall large streetes cleane and well pitch'd and good houses all built of stone, some have good gardens and steps up to their houses and walls before them; this is esteemed the wealthyest town of its bigness in the Country, its manufacture is the woollen cloth the Yorkshire Cloth in which they are all employ'd and are esteemed very rich and very proud; they have provision soe...