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... besides the conveyance of produce : the fourth , or Covinus , surpassing all the
others in its destructive construction , was the war - chariot set with scythes and
hooks , intended to cut every thing down opposed to it , and admirably calculated
...
... besides the conveyance of produce : the fourth , or Covinus , surpassing all the
others in its destructive construction , was the war - chariot set with scythes and
hooks , intended to cut every thing down opposed to it , and admirably calculated
...
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... hazard all things were put ; and how apparent a way was made for the
restitution of all former tyranny and bondage . ... and wound up all with a very fair
courtship of the Colonel to engage with him , offering him any thing he would
account ...
... hazard all things were put ; and how apparent a way was made for the
restitution of all former tyranny and bondage . ... and wound up all with a very fair
courtship of the Colonel to engage with him , offering him any thing he would
account ...
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One thing is very memorable in this brave exployt ( such as was never yet
attempted by the greatest rebells of whom our stories have made mention ) ,
which was , that when some of the rabble which attended Martin said plainely
they would ...
One thing is very memorable in this brave exployt ( such as was never yet
attempted by the greatest rebells of whom our stories have made mention ) ,
which was , that when some of the rabble which attended Martin said plainely
they would ...
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... an excellent housewife , that wastes more of every thing than she spends ; an
egregious scold , that will always have the last word ; an everlasting gossip , that
tells abroad whatsoever is done in the house ; a lazy trosses , that cares not how
...
... an excellent housewife , that wastes more of every thing than she spends ; an
egregious scold , that will always have the last word ; an everlasting gossip , that
tells abroad whatsoever is done in the house ; a lazy trosses , that cares not how
...
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If any servant have occasion to go forth of the chamber for any thing , let him
make haste , and see that no more than two be absent ; and for prevention of
errands , let all sauces be ready at the door , for even one mess of mustard will
take a ...
If any servant have occasion to go forth of the chamber for any thing , let him
make haste , and see that no more than two be absent ; and for prevention of
errands , let all sauces be ready at the door , for even one mess of mustard will
take a ...
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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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