The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volume 2Thomas Maiden, 1814 - Architecture |
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... trade of the Metropolis , open an immense field for retail business , and very many are the streets where the ground floors of the houses are wholly occupied as retail shops . These , in a general point of view , are the same as the two ...
... trade of the Metropolis , open an immense field for retail business , and very many are the streets where the ground floors of the houses are wholly occupied as retail shops . These , in a general point of view , are the same as the two ...
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... trade , it would remove much faster : for Leadenhall Street , Bishopsgate , and part of Fenchurch Street , had lost their ancient trade ; Gracechurch Street , had indeed kept itself yet entire , by reason of its conjunction with and ...
... trade , it would remove much faster : for Leadenhall Street , Bishopsgate , and part of Fenchurch Street , had lost their ancient trade ; Gracechurch Street , had indeed kept itself yet entire , by reason of its conjunction with and ...
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... trade in which her husband does not intermeddle , may sue and be sued as a femme sole merchant : in such actious the husband is named for con- formity , but the wife alone can be taken in execution . The ac- tions which arise out of the ...
... trade in which her husband does not intermeddle , may sue and be sued as a femme sole merchant : in such actious the husband is named for con- formity , but the wife alone can be taken in execution . The ac- tions which arise out of the ...
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... trading beyond seas , shall admit such person to traffic or mer chandize in foreign parts , without his becoming a ... trade may be estimated from the advertisements in every newspaper , of the nu . merous Public Auctions , which have ...
... trading beyond seas , shall admit such person to traffic or mer chandize in foreign parts , without his becoming a ... trade may be estimated from the advertisements in every newspaper , of the nu . merous Public Auctions , which have ...
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... trade still continuing to decline , and particularly after the incorporation of the Eastland Merchants in 1579 , who pur- chased skins from pedlars and others for the purpose of exporta- tion , a controversy arose between those ...
... trade still continuing to decline , and particularly after the incorporation of the Eastland Merchants in 1579 , who pur- chased skins from pedlars and others for the purpose of exporta- tion , a controversy arose between those ...
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Page 473 - England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable at demand, or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
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Page 239 - Paul's," writes Sir Christopher Wren, in the ' Parentalia,' " we are told an incident was taken notice of by some people as a memorable omen : when the surveyor in person had set out upon the place the dimensions of the great dome, and fixed upon the centre, a common labourer was ordered to bring a flat stone from the heaps of rubbish (such as should first come to hand) to be laid for a mark and direction to the masons : the stone, which was immediately brought and laid down for that purpose, happened...
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Page 284 - Bernini's design of the Louvre I would have given my skin for ; but the old reserved Italian gave me but a few minutes' view ; it was five little designs on paper, for which he hath received as many thousand pistoles.