The Etymological Compendium, Or, Portfolio of Origins and Inventions .. Containing a Particular Account of London and Its Public Buildings ... |
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... established the subordination of servant and master , of family to father , and of wife to husband . These three branches of domes- tic economy are the germ of all government . Principium Urbis et quasi Seminarium Reipublicae . " The ...
... established the subordination of servant and master , of family to father , and of wife to husband . These three branches of domes- tic economy are the germ of all government . Principium Urbis et quasi Seminarium Reipublicae . " The ...
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... established , so great was the dearth of News Matter , at that period , that the editor was compelled to have recourse to the Bible to " help him out ; " and actually extracted the First Chapter of Genesis , and so continued the ...
... established , so great was the dearth of News Matter , at that period , that the editor was compelled to have recourse to the Bible to " help him out ; " and actually extracted the First Chapter of Genesis , and so continued the ...
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... established . 1675. St. Paul's Cathedral begun ; finished 1710 . 1732. Bank of England built ; enlarged 1771 , 1783 , 1789 ; part of the front rebuilt 1824-5 . 1738-9 . Westminster Bridge begun ; finished 1746 . 1760. Blackfriar's ...
... established . 1675. St. Paul's Cathedral begun ; finished 1710 . 1732. Bank of England built ; enlarged 1771 , 1783 , 1789 ; part of the front rebuilt 1824-5 . 1738-9 . Westminster Bridge begun ; finished 1746 . 1760. Blackfriar's ...
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... established , were found , on sinking pits , very evident remains of Roman Potte- ries , and at a considerable depth below the present surface of the land . It is supposed also , that one of the principal Roman Potteries was on a small ...
... established , were found , on sinking pits , very evident remains of Roman Potte- ries , and at a considerable depth below the present surface of the land . It is supposed also , that one of the principal Roman Potteries was on a small ...
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... established to himself , and secured to others , a reputation to the latest posterity . Guido , Guercino , Simon Cantarini da Pesaro , the Siranis , & c . have all of them left us many elegant prints , which are so many striking proofs ...
... established to himself , and secured to others , a reputation to the latest posterity . Guido , Guercino , Simon Cantarini da Pesaro , the Siranis , & c . have all of them left us many elegant prints , which are so many striking proofs ...
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Page 169 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
Page 152 - The insurance offices one and all shut up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world. Thus this custom of firing houses continued...
Page 320 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Page 89 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — ('Treason,' cried the speaker — ' treason, treason/ echoed from every part of the house.
Page 324 - Oh, what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame, I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart : I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
Page 73 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land.
Page 8 - When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Page 120 - Third to steal a hawk. To take its eggs even in a person's own ground, was punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, together with a fine at the king's pleasure. In...
Page 46 - I seem to remember having been told, that a bad sweep was once left in a stack with his brush, to indicate which way the wind blew. It was an awful spectacle certainly ; not much unlike the old stage direction in Macbeth, where the " Apparition of a child crowned with a tree in his hand rises.
Page 60 - I have been up all night (replied the old bard) ; my musical friends made me promise to write them an ode for their Feast of St. Cecilia : I have been so struck with the subject which occurred to me, that I could not leave it till I had completed it ; here it is finished at one sitting.