The Etymological Compendium, Or, Portfolio of Origins and Inventions .. Containing a Particular Account of London and Its Public Buildings ...T. Tegg, 1830 - 356 pages |
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William Pulleyn. sich e House Ward - Page 233 Mercer's Company Page ·. ་ ་ ་་་ Page 萬 Rich Roe ! 319 -319 Fro ... 86 .M 眼.B .B at Court - 18 邊 187 190 199 910 115 Names of a few Places and Persons Nero fiddled while.
William Pulleyn. sich e House Ward - Page 233 Mercer's Company Page ·. ་ ་ ་་་ Page 萬 Rich Roe ! 319 -319 Fro ... 86 .M 眼.B .B at Court - 18 邊 187 190 199 910 115 Names of a few Places and Persons Nero fiddled while.
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... Persons Nero fiddled while Rome was burning Nine Tailors make a Man ! Not fit to hold a Candle to him ! Ne Sutor Ultra Crepidam Never look a Gift Horse in the Mouth ! News · 295 · 315 Pressing for the Navy Poor Houses . Prerogative ...
... Persons Nero fiddled while Rome was burning Nine Tailors make a Man ! Not fit to hold a Candle to him ! Ne Sutor Ultra Crepidam Never look a Gift Horse in the Mouth ! News · 295 · 315 Pressing for the Navy Poor Houses . Prerogative ...
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... persons , under the direction of one Severus Archontius . Among the Greeks it is to be observed , the oldest books were in verse , which was prior to prose . Herodotus's His- tory is the oldest book extant of the prosaic kind . To books ...
... persons , under the direction of one Severus Archontius . Among the Greeks it is to be observed , the oldest books were in verse , which was prior to prose . Herodotus's His- tory is the oldest book extant of the prosaic kind . To books ...
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... person were united the philosopher and the chris- tian . Born of a very eminent family , and large fortune , he might ... persons well disposed , made them presents of his manuscripts , some of which were transcribed with the greatest ...
... person were united the philosopher and the chris- tian . Born of a very eminent family , and large fortune , he might ... persons well disposed , made them presents of his manuscripts , some of which were transcribed with the greatest ...
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... Persons of taste and letters in Tuscany , being dissatisfied with every former attempt at perfecting dramatic poetry and exhibitions , determined to unite the best Lyric Poet with the best Musician of their time . Three Florentine ...
... Persons of taste and letters in Tuscany , being dissatisfied with every former attempt at perfecting dramatic poetry and exhibitions , determined to unite the best Lyric Poet with the best Musician of their time . Three Florentine ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.