Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700: Including the Origin of British Society, Customs and Manners, with a General Sketch of the State of Religion, Superstition, Dresses, and Amusements of the Citizens of London, During that Period; to which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries, Illustrated by Eighteen Engravings, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 - Clothing and dress |
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... cause the stranding of any Roman bark discovered in the act of tracing their destination ; because , we must then suppose the merchants of Gaul , trading to Britain , destitute of the least information as to the state of the country ...
... cause the stranding of any Roman bark discovered in the act of tracing their destination ; because , we must then suppose the merchants of Gaul , trading to Britain , destitute of the least information as to the state of the country ...
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... cause of the decline of their power ; for , as the ability of the prince to distribute wealth in- creased , the people were willing to barter even their freedom for it . By these , and perhaps other unknown causes , we find that ...
... cause of the decline of their power ; for , as the ability of the prince to distribute wealth in- creased , the people were willing to barter even their freedom for it . By these , and perhaps other unknown causes , we find that ...
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... causes ; ignorance of agriculture , and of the means of clearing a country effectually : and yet , granting that they raised corn , both must in some degree have been understood , as we well know wheat will not grow amongst underwood ...
... causes ; ignorance of agriculture , and of the means of clearing a country effectually : and yet , granting that they raised corn , both must in some degree have been understood , as we well know wheat will not grow amongst underwood ...
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... causes , yet such were the consequences of method and experience that the invaders prevailed for the time . A forced peace ensued ; but a favourable opportunity offer- ing , our countrymen surprized a strong foraging party , and with so ...
... causes , yet such were the consequences of method and experience that the invaders prevailed for the time . A forced peace ensued ; but a favourable opportunity offer- ing , our countrymen surprized a strong foraging party , and with so ...
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... caused by the custom of his people in fighting , and not by any deficiency of courage . The English began their combats with tremendous shouts and showers of darts ; the Romans , know- ing these to be their principal means of offence ...
... caused by the custom of his people in fighting , and not by any deficiency of courage . The English began their combats with tremendous shouts and showers of darts ; the Romans , know- ing these to be their principal means of offence ...
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Page 190 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Page 186 - I inquire of it, and hearken for it; but now charity is waxen cold, none helpeth the scholar, nor yet the poor.
Page 194 - He married my sisters with five pounds, or twenty nobles, apiece ; so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor ; and all this he did...
Page 243 - Colonel Hutchinson privately discoursing with his cousin about the communications he had had with the king, Ireton's expressions were these: " He gave us words, and we paid him in his own coin, when we found he had no real intention to the people's good, but to prevail by our factions, to regain by art what he had lost in fight.
Page 193 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field.
Page 156 - Now unthrifts riot and run in debt, upon the boldness of these places ; yea, and rich men run thither with poor men's goods; there they build, there they spend, and bid their creditors go whistle them. Men's wives run thither with their husband's plate, and say they dare not abide with their husbands for beating.
Page 418 - In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c., the ancients sitting gravely by, and looking on. All things were civil, and without scandal.
Page 219 - And is it not a great vanity, that a man cannot heartily welcome his friend now, but straight they must be in hand with tobacco ? No, it is become in place of a cure, a point of good fellowship, and he that will refuse to take a pipe of tobacco...
Page 220 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 383 - ... with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, hereby...