London, Or Interesting Memorials of Its Rise, Progress & Present State, Band 2T. Boys, 1824 |
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... a long time the corporation made it one of their principal duties on Lord Mayor's Day , to do homage at the shrine of this restorer of their liberties , and even as late as the reign of James the First 2 PERCY HISTORIES .
... a long time the corporation made it one of their principal duties on Lord Mayor's Day , to do homage at the shrine of this restorer of their liberties , and even as late as the reign of James the First 2 PERCY HISTORIES .
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... principal inhabi- tants and possessors are stale knights and captains out of service , men of long rapiers and breeches , which after all turn merchants here , and traffic for news . Some make it a preface to their dinner , and travel ...
... principal inhabi- tants and possessors are stale knights and captains out of service , men of long rapiers and breeches , which after all turn merchants here , and traffic for news . Some make it a preface to their dinner , and travel ...
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... principal mason , Mr. Strong ; and during one bi- shopric , that of Dr. Henry Compton , bishop of London . The time occupied in its erection , though in truth marvellously short , compared with that devoted to other buildings similar in ...
... principal mason , Mr. Strong ; and during one bi- shopric , that of Dr. Henry Compton , bishop of London . The time occupied in its erection , though in truth marvellously short , compared with that devoted to other buildings similar in ...
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... principal front ; the east end terminates in a projecting semicircle ; and at the extremities of the principal transept , there are also semicircular projec- tions for porticos , while the angles of the cross are occupied with square ...
... principal front ; the east end terminates in a projecting semicircle ; and at the extremities of the principal transept , there are also semicircular projec- tions for porticos , while the angles of the cross are occupied with square ...
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... principal struc- tures of the new city , and was appointed principal 72 PERCY HISTORIES .
... principal struc- tures of the new city , and was appointed principal 72 PERCY HISTORIES .
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afterwards aldermen ancient appear appointed archbishop arches armour arms Artillery Company attended beggars bishop of London body bridge building called cathedral Chancery chapel Charles church citizens city of London commenced common crown death dome Duke Earl Edward VI England erected executed exercise feet fell fire flames formed formerly fortress garden ground hall Henry VIII honour Honourable Artillery Company horse hundred inhabitants inn of chancery inns of court James king less Lincoln's Lincoln's Inn lord mayor majesty mansion Mary master ment metropolis Middle Temple military monarch monument night occasion occupied officers palace parish parliament Paul's cross period persons plague present Prince principal prison reign of Edward reign of Henry residence river royal says shillings Sir Christopher Wren Sir John Sir Thomas stone streets Temple Thames tion Tower Tower-hill trained bands walls wards Westminster whole William
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Seite 153 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose : And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Seite 34 - Europe, as not long before repaired by the late king) now rent in pieces, flakes of vast stone split asunder, and nothing remaining entire but the inscription in the architrave, showing by whom it was built, which had not one letter of it defaced.
Seite 242 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Seite 286 - God grant my eyes may never behold the like, now seeing above 10,000 houses all in one flame ; the noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children...
Seite 26 - It is the market of young lecturers, whom you may cheapen here at all rates and sizes. It is the general mint of all famous lies, which are here like the legends of popery, first coined and stamped in the church. All inventions are emptied here, and not few pockets. The best sign of a temple in it is, that it is the thieves...
Seite 53 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Seite 111 - But this is but one; it is scarce credible what dreadful cases happened in particular families every day. People in the rage of the distemper, or in the torment of their swellings, which was indeed intolerable, running out of their own government, raving and distracted, and oftentimes laying violent hands upon themselves, throwing themselves out at their windows, shooting themselves, &c.; mothers murdering their own children in their lunacy...
Seite 32 - Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion : for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
Seite 67 - Gentiles' great apostle's name, With grace divine great Anna's seen to rise, An awful form, that glads a nation's eyes. Beneath her feet four mighty realms appear, And with due reverence pay their homage there) Britain and Ireland seem to owe her grace, And e'en wild India wears a smiling face.
Seite 25 - It is more than this, the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, justling and turning. It is a heap of stones and men, with a vast confusion of languages; and were the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel.