The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Other Parts Adjacent, Band 1G. Virtue, 1839 |
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... cause of liberty . 66 What chiefly excited their indignation , was the conduct of the veterans lately planted as a colony of Camulodunuın . These men treated the Britons with cruelty and oppression ; they drove the natives from their ...
... cause of liberty . 66 What chiefly excited their indignation , was the conduct of the veterans lately planted as a colony of Camulodunuın . These men treated the Britons with cruelty and oppression ; they drove the natives from their ...
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... cause , and lay extended on the ground with its face averted , as if the goddess yielded to the enemies ot Rome . Women in wild ecstacy rushed among the people , and with frantic screams denounced impending ruin . In the council ...
... cause , and lay extended on the ground with its face averted , as if the goddess yielded to the enemies ot Rome . Women in wild ecstacy rushed among the people , and with frantic screams denounced impending ruin . In the council ...
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... cause of public liberty , and to seek revenge for her body seamed with ignominious stripes , and her two daughters infamously ra vished . From the pride and arrogance of the Romans , nothing is sacred ; all are subject to violation ...
... cause of public liberty , and to seek revenge for her body seamed with ignominious stripes , and her two daughters infamously ra vished . From the pride and arrogance of the Romans , nothing is sacred ; all are subject to violation ...
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... cause why this stone was there set , the verie time when , or other memory hereof , is there none ; but that the same hath long continued there is manifest , namely , since , or rather before the time of the Conquest . - Some have saide ...
... cause why this stone was there set , the verie time when , or other memory hereof , is there none ; but that the same hath long continued there is manifest , namely , since , or rather before the time of the Conquest . - Some have saide ...
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... caused to be layde foorth on the wall of the citie , there to remayne unburyed to be seene of all men . " t Upon the death of Canute , a wittenagemot , or convention of wise men , was held at Oxford ; where earl Leofric , and most of ...
... caused to be layde foorth on the wall of the citie , there to remayne unburyed to be seene of all men . " t Upon the death of Canute , a wittenagemot , or convention of wise men , was held at Oxford ; where earl Leofric , and most of ...
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Seite 420 - We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it. The churches, houses, and all on fire, and flaming at once; and a horrid noise the flames made, and the cracking of houses at their ruine. So home with a sad heart...
Seite 418 - So I was called for, and did tell the King and Duke of York what I saw; and that, unless his Majesty did command houses to be pulled down, nothing could stop the fire. They seemed much troubled, and the King commanded me to go to my Lord Mayor from him, and command him to spare no houses, but to pull down before the fire every way.
Seite 413 - I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods; such a strange consternation there was upon them...
Seite 417 - ... ready to perish for hunger and destitution, yet not asking one penny for relief, which to me appeared a stranger sight than any I had yet beheld.
Seite 419 - Soon as dined, I and Moone away, and walked through the city ; the streets full of nothing but people, and horses and carts loaden with goods, ready to run over one another, and removing goods from one burned house to another.
Seite 417 - His majesty and council indeede tooke all imaginable care for their reliefe by proclamation for the country to come in and refresh them with provisions. In the midst of all this calamity and confusion, there was, I know not how, an alarme begun, that the French...
Seite 419 - Bridge at the waterside; but little was or could be done, the fire coming upon them so fast. Good hopes there was of stopping it at the Three Cranes above, and at Buttulph's Wharf below Bridge, if care be used ; but the wind carries it into the City, so as we know not, by the waterside, what it do there.
Seite 424 - ... the streets, but I went with the men, and we did put it out in a little time; so that that was well again. It was pretty to see how hard the women did work in the cannells, sweeping of water; but then they would scold for drink, and be as drunk as devils.
Seite 413 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches...
Seite 415 - In this calamitous condition I returned with a sad heart to my house, blessing and adoring the mercy of God to me and mine, who in the midst of all this ruin was like Lot, in my little Zoar, safe and sound.