Memorials of Oxford, Band 3

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Parker, 1837 - 99 Seiten
 

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Seite 3 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Seite 5 - Why, truly," replied the physician, " I would not have your majesty's two legs for your three kingdoms." He was no more consulted by that prince; and, when Anne succeeded to the crown, lord Godolphin in vain...
Seite 5 - ... portion of its garden walls, and a doorway fronting the canal. From the insignificant vestiges of Osney Abbey it is scarcely possible to form an idea of its former magnificence. Now, perhaps, one of the least attractive spots of our suburbs, it was once, for the splendour and beauty of its buildings, 'one of the first ornaments and wonders of this place and nation.
Seite 5 - Doctor ; you are buoyed up with hopes that your malady will soon be driven away by persons that are not apprized of means to do it, and know not the true cause of your ailment ; but I must be plain with you, and tell you, that, in all probability, if your majesty will adhere to my prescriptions, it may be in my power to lengthen out your life for three or four years, but beyond that time nothing in physic can protract it, for the juices of your stomach are all vitiated; your whole mass of blood is...
Seite 7 - Witness ourselves at London the eighteenth day of the month of October, in the two and fortieth year of our reign.
Seite 29 - Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, justices, sheriffs, reeves, ministers, and all his bailiffs and faithful subjects, greeting. Know ye that we have granted, and by this our...
Seite 10 - Bibliotheca Radcliviana: Or, A Short Description Of The Radcliffe Library, At Oxford. Containing Its several Plans, Uprights, Sections, and Ornaments, On Twenty three Copper Plates, neatly engraved, With the Explanation of each Plate.
Seite 26 - Oxford, or any of them or others, by what name or names soever the same were made or don, in like manner and fourme as they and every of them had or might have had the same before the making of this acte ; any thinge, &c.
Seite 7 - ... sickness nor his apparel had disguised him so much as to deceive the doctor, who had no sooner heard what he had to say and taken his gold, but told him, ' he might go home and die and be damned, without a speedy repentance, for both the grave and the devil were ready for one Tyson of Hackney, who had raised an immense estate out of the s'poils of the public and the tears of orphans and widows, and would certainly be a dead man in ten days.
Seite 10 - England, is not precisely ascertained, but it may be supposed to have been about the end of queen Elizabeth's reign, or the beginning of that of James I.

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