London and Middlesex, Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain: Including Sketches of Its Environs, and a Topographical Account of the Most Remarkable Places in the Above County, Band 2W. Wilson, 1814 - 4033 Seiten |
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... interests of commerce and the progress of population were greatly retarded by the numerous monastic institutions which thus encumbered ' the Capital ; and however we may lament or execrate the worse than Gothic barbarity , ' which ...
... interests of commerce and the progress of population were greatly retarded by the numerous monastic institutions which thus encumbered ' the Capital ; and however we may lament or execrate the worse than Gothic barbarity , ' which ...
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... interest , and whilest they , or any of them , their wives , widows , or families , should dwell and inhabit within the same . ' The attention of the Legislature was very early directed to the improvement of the Capital , after the ...
... interest , and whilest they , or any of them , their wives , widows , or families , should dwell and inhabit within the same . ' The attention of the Legislature was very early directed to the improvement of the Capital , after the ...
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... interest ) must be convinced of the necessity of a speedy reformation , without which the little of our retail trade that remains will be in time totally lost , our wards and parishes depopulated , and the burthen of our offices and ...
... interest ) must be convinced of the necessity of a speedy reformation , without which the little of our retail trade that remains will be in time totally lost , our wards and parishes depopulated , and the burthen of our offices and ...
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... interest of each Ward respectively ; but when the business of the Court is to elect an Alderman , the Lord Mayor presides . In every Ward a Ward- mote Court is held annually on St. Thomas's Day , for the elec- tion of the Common ...
... interest of each Ward respectively ; but when the business of the Court is to elect an Alderman , the Lord Mayor presides . In every Ward a Ward- mote Court is held annually on St. Thomas's Day , for the elec- tion of the Common ...
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... interest , though Thomas Pal- ton , Bishop of Hereford , had been previously chosen by the Chapter . He was made Lord Chancellor in 1426 , and in the same year was translated to York . His successor was William Gray , who was removed to ...
... interest , though Thomas Pal- ton , Bishop of Hereford , had been previously chosen by the Chapter . He was made Lord Chancellor in 1426 , and in the same year was translated to York . His successor was William Gray , who was removed to ...
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Seite 455 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London...
Seite 292 - 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.
Seite 82 - To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Seite 719 - ... and undaunted courage : and, notwithstanding he had at this time neither read books, nor conversed with men capable of giving him much instruction in the military art, all the resources which he employed in the defence of Arcot, were such as are dictated by the best masters in the science of war.
Seite 1 - Then Commerce brought into the public walk The busy merchant; the big warehouse built; Raised the strong crane; choked up the loaded street With foreign plenty; and thy stream, O Thames! Large, gentle, deep, majestic, king of floods! Chose for his grand resort.
Seite 297 - Kunc me jttbet fortuna cxpeditiut philosophari;' in which recess, free from worldly affairs, he passed the greatest part of the five last following years of his life, in contemplation and studies, and principally in the consolation of the Holy Scriptures; cheerful in solitude, and as well pleased to die in the shade as in the light.
Seite 517 - Public at large, that the general concerns of the Bank are in the most affluent and prosperous situation, and such as to preclude every doubt as to the security of its Notes.
Seite 492 - Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow : 23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Seite 279 - WORLD ; WHICH HE TRAVERSED TO REDUCE THE SUM OF HUMAN MISERY. FROM THE THRONE TO THE DUNGEON HIS NAME WAS MENTIONED WITH RESPECT, GRATITUDE, AND ADMIRATION.
Seite 533 - An aft for authorizing his majesty in council to allow, during the present war, and for six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace...