Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Volume 2

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Page 143 - An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in. Parliament, for the...
Page 115 - ... liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years.
Page 148 - A religious fast requires total abstinence, not only from all food, (unless bodily weakness do manifestly disable from holding out till the fast be ended, in .which case somewhat may be taken, yet very sparingly, to support nature, when ready to faint,) but also from all worldly labour, discourses, and thoughts, and from all bodily delights...
Page 88 - AM the worthy vicar of this place 46 years, died 12th April, 1769, aged 79. A man, whose chief delight was in the service of his Master ; a sound scholar, a tender and affectionate husband, a kind and indulgent parent, a lover of peace and quietness : who is gone to that place where he now enjoys the due reward of all his labours.
Page 8 - What, art thou a foole ? the tanner reply'd ; I carry one under mee. What craftsman art thou, said the king, I pray thee tell me trowe.
Page 68 - From a charter of the year 1391, relative to the building a bridge "over the Derwent, we find that one Walter Stonewell had a mansion "here, which he held of the Abbot of Darley.
Page 33 - What's in a name?' we might truly answer: the geography and topography and physical conditions of the district, the historical events, the national and tribal immigrations and settlements, the ethnological and patronymical polity, the constitution of society, the manners and customs of the namegivers, their traditions, their mode of worship, and much latent information of a kindred nature, for which we might in vain seek elsewhere.
Page 62 - AS smith — any one who strikes or smites with a hammer, an artificer, a carpenter, smith, workman.
Page 11 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 115 - ... validis radicibus haerens pondere fixa suo est, nudosque per aera ramos effundens trunco, non frondibus, efficit umbram ; 140 et quamvis primo nutet casura sub Euro, tot circum silvae firmo se robore tollant, sola tamen colitur.

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