A Book about London: Its Memorable Places, Its Men and Women, and Its Historical and Literary AssociationsHenry & Company, 1890 - 350 Seiten |
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... crowds . Peers and peeresses , country squires , farmers , widows with small annuities , tradesmen with small savings , clergymen with small benefices , poets like Pope and Gay , ecclesiastical historians like Bingham , -everybody who ...
... crowds . Peers and peeresses , country squires , farmers , widows with small annuities , tradesmen with small savings , clergymen with small benefices , poets like Pope and Gay , ecclesiastical historians like Bingham , -everybody who ...
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... crowd filled the lobby , whom Lord George several times addressed in violent language , informing them that their petition was being denounced and derided , and invoking their vengeance on the members who objected to its con- sideration ...
... crowd filled the lobby , whom Lord George several times addressed in violent language , informing them that their petition was being denounced and derided , and invoking their vengeance on the members who objected to its con- sideration ...
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... crowds surrounded the Roman Catholic chapels in Moorfields , and wrecked and burned their pulpits and altars . On Monday these outrages were continued . One cannot but be surprised at the supineness of the authorities ; but when a ...
... crowds surrounded the Roman Catholic chapels in Moorfields , and wrecked and burned their pulpits and altars . On Monday these outrages were continued . One cannot but be surprised at the supineness of the authorities ; but when a ...
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... crowd , who muffled their fetters as they went along with handkerchiefs and bands of hay , and wrapped them in coats and cloaks , and gave them drink from bottles , and held it to their lips because of their handcuffs , which there was ...
... crowd , who muffled their fetters as they went along with handkerchiefs and bands of hay , and wrapped them in coats and cloaks , and gave them drink from bottles , and held it to their lips because of their handcuffs , which there was ...
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... crowd , or to catch the quick glance , the silvery music of momentary merriment , then have a few seconds of rapid acute dialogue , or perhaps be beckoned by a friend with space to spare . " Here is the graphic picture drawn by Mr ...
... crowd , or to catch the quick glance , the silvery music of momentary merriment , then have a few seconds of rapid acute dialogue , or perhaps be beckoned by a friend with space to spare . " Here is the graphic picture drawn by Mr ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 77 - ... was the Duke of York, and the company squeezed themselves into one another's pockets to make room for us. The house, which is borrowed, and to which the ghost has adjourned, is wretchedly small and miserable. When we opened the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light, but one...
Seite 212 - I pray you all, good Christian people, to bear me witness that I die a true Christian woman, and that I do look to be saved by no other mean, but only by the mercy of God, in the blood of his only Son Jesus Christ...
Seite 34 - Smithfield, where I had many wounded and sick men, made me the more diligent to promote it, nor was my care for the Savoy less. It now pleased God...
Seite 13 - This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
Seite 235 - I dare look death in the face, and I hope the people too. Have you a care that I do not escape, and I care not how I die, whether by the hand of the executioner or the madness and fury of the people. If that may give them contentment it is all one to me.
Seite 273 - ... three buttered muffins for breakfast, before shooting himself, knowing that he should not be troubled with indigestion : he had two charged pistols ; one was found lying charged upon the table by him, after he had shot himself with the other.
Seite 113 - Then we all ran, when the Court gates were set open, and no man did hinder us from coming in. There we...
Seite 330 - In order to keep up the credit of our house, I have forged powers of attorney for the above sums and parties, and sold out to the amount here stated, and without the knowledge of my partners. I kept up the payment of the dividends, but made no entries of such payments in our books.
Seite 145 - Wryneck swore she should be married, or if she would not, he would still have his fee, and register the marriage from that night. The lady, finding she could not escape without money or a pledge, told them she liked the gentleman so well she would certainly meet him to-morrow night, and gave them a ring as a pledge, which, says she...
Seite 33 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above ten thousand 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...