The Lancashire Library: A Bibliographical Account of Books on Topography, Biography, History, Science, and Miscellaneous Literature Relating to the County Palatine, Including an Account of Lancashire Tracts, Pamphlets, and Sermons Printed Before the Year 1720. With Collations, & Bibliographical, Critical, & Biographical Notes on the Books and Authors, Volume 1

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G. Routledge and sons, 1875 - 443 pages
 

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Page 166 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 232 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go : farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool ; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go ; and quickly too. Farewell.
Page 60 - DOMESDAY BOOK, or the GREAT SURVEY OF ENGLAND OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, 1086 ; fac-simile of the Part relating to each county, separately (with a few exceptions of double counties).
Page 61 - The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire : With an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts.
Page 386 - The Protestant Religion is a Sure Foundation and PRINCIPLE of a TRUE CHRISTIAN, and A Good Subject, a Great Friend to Humane Society ; and A Grand Promoter of all Virtues, Both Christian and Moral.
Page 351 - The case to which he refers, as one of the " dispossession of devils," may be found in a tract published in London in 1697, entitled, " The Surey Demoniac ; or, an Account of Satan's strange and dreadful actings, in and about the body of Richard Dugdale, of Surey, near Whalley, in Lancashire.
Page 292 - A COLLECTION of the SUFFERINGS of the PEOPLE called QUAKERS for the Testimony of a Good Conscience, from the Time of their being first distinguished by that name in the year 1650 to.
Page 301 - I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and compendious ; it hops with airy and fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion.
Page 312 - Daily Telegraph. Now ready, in cloth extra (only a few copies for sale), price 15s., The Noble and Gentlemen of England; or, Notes touching the Arms and Descents of the Ancient Knightly and Gentle Houses of England, arranged in their respective Counties, attempted by EVELYN PHILIP SHIRLEY, Esq., MA, FSA, one of the Knights of the Shire for the County of Warwick, 4to, HANDSOMELY PBINTED, pp.
Page 93 - Tis strange, — but true ; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction : if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange ! How differently the world would men behold...

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