Londiniana: Or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis, Volume 1 |
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... ground more attentively than any other author , states his belief that the sagacious Romans would never have made choice of so noisome a place for a station , as St. George's Fields must have been in their days . " that at " It is ...
... ground more attentively than any other author , states his belief that the sagacious Romans would never have made choice of so noisome a place for a station , as St. George's Fields must have been in their days . " that at " It is ...
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... ground * This argument will acquire corroboration from a circum- stance communicated by the late Robert Michell , Esq . ar- chitect , who , about the year 1775 , having erected some houses on the Blackfriars Road , near to the Magdalen ...
... ground * This argument will acquire corroboration from a circum- stance communicated by the late Robert Michell , Esq . ar- chitect , who , about the year 1775 , having erected some houses on the Blackfriars Road , near to the Magdalen ...
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... ground must have falsified that description . : Presuming then , that the site of London was ever * Vide a Letter to Mr. Hearne , written in 1711 , and print- ed in Leland's Itinerary , Vol . VIII . Edit . 3d , and Preface to it , p . 7 ...
... ground must have falsified that description . : Presuming then , that the site of London was ever * Vide a Letter to Mr. Hearne , written in 1711 , and print- ed in Leland's Itinerary , Vol . VIII . Edit . 3d , and Preface to it , p . 7 ...
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... grounds that skirt its channel : thus it ran on the south from the west of Wandsworth to Woolwich , to Dartford , to ... grounds in St. George's Fields , particularly , would soon catch the eye , and soon feel the hand of the improving ...
... grounds that skirt its channel : thus it ran on the south from the west of Wandsworth to Woolwich , to Dartford , to ... grounds in St. George's Fields , particularly , would soon catch the eye , and soon feel the hand of the improving ...
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... grounds on the Surrey side of the river were overflowed , as well as those extending from Wapping Marsh to the Isle of Dogs , and still further for many miles along the Essex shore : the transition from Llyn - Din to London would be of ...
... grounds on the Surrey side of the river were overflowed , as well as those extending from Wapping Marsh to the Isle of Dogs , and still further for many miles along the Essex shore : the transition from Llyn - Din to London would be of ...
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