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These convince us , that extravagant living was a predominant vice : indeed , we
need only consult Rymer for the items of some royal feasts ; after which , we
cannot be surprised that famine followed . A people who indulged in this
description ...
These convince us , that extravagant living was a predominant vice : indeed , we
need only consult Rymer for the items of some royal feasts ; after which , we
cannot be surprised that famine followed . A people who indulged in this
description ...
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Thieves bring thither stolen goods , and live thereon : there devise they new
robberies nightly ; and steal out , and rob , rive , and kill men ; and come again
into those places , as though those places gave them not only a safeguard for the
harm ...
Thieves bring thither stolen goods , and live thereon : there devise they new
robberies nightly ; and steal out , and rob , rive , and kill men ; and come again
into those places , as though those places gave them not only a safeguard for the
harm ...
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Abbeys were ordained for the comfort of the poor ; wherefore I said , it was not
decent that the king's horses should be kept in them , as many were at that time ;
the living of poor men thereby minished , and taken away . But , afterward , a ...
Abbeys were ordained for the comfort of the poor ; wherefore I said , it was not
decent that the king's horses should be kept in them , as many were at that time ;
the living of poor men thereby minished , and taken away . But , afterward , a ...
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The term Cockney applied to the natives of the city of London , or that part of it in
antient times enclosed by a wall , and supposed to live within reach of the sound
of Bow - bell , is of greater antiquity than the custom is commendable .
The term Cockney applied to the natives of the city of London , or that part of it in
antient times enclosed by a wall , and supposed to live within reach of the sound
of Bow - bell , is of greater antiquity than the custom is commendable .
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... alas , how can she live else , giving at least forty pound per annum for liberty to
tread and foul those seats the silken petticoats and gaudy pantaloons do sit on .
Immediately presenting the best moiety of his purchase to the next vizor mask ...
... alas , how can she live else , giving at least forty pound per annum for liberty to
tread and foul those seats the silken petticoats and gaudy pantaloons do sit on .
Immediately presenting the best moiety of his purchase to the next vizor mask ...
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Seite 220 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Seite 190 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Seite 186 - I inquire of it, and hearken for it; but now charity is waxen cold, none helpeth the scholar, nor yet the poor.
Seite 194 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor.
Seite 186 - But London was never so ill as it is now. In times past men were full of pity and compassion, but now there is no pity; for in London their brother shall die in the streets for cold, he shall lie sick at the door between stock and stock, I cannot tell what to call it, and perish there for hunger: was there ever more unmercifulness in Nebo?
Seite 243 - Colonel Hutchinson privately discoursing with his cousin about the communications he had had with the king, Ireton's expressions were these: " He gave us words, and we paid him in his own coin, when we found he had no real intention to the people's good, but to prevail by our factions, to regain by art what he had lost in fight.
Seite 193 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field.
Seite 230 - Hearing her so much deplored, he made inquiry after her, and grew so in love with the description that no other discourse could at first please him, nor could he at last endure any other ; he grew desperately melancholy, and would go to a mount where the print of her foot was cut, and lie there pining and kissing of it all the day long, till at length death, in some months' space, concluded his languishment.
Seite 352 - April, in the 17th year of the reign of our sovereign lord Charles the Second by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.
Seite 418 - In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c., the ancients sitting gravely by, and looking on. All things were civil, and without scandal.
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| Titel | Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries ... Band 1 von Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries, James Peller Malcolm |
| Autor/in | James Peller Malcolm |
| Ausgabe | 2 |
| Verlag | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 9. Mai 2008 |
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