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 ... |
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The last act in this series of preparation was the conferring of the title of knight by
the prince , earl , or baron , with whom the party had passed his seven or eight
years of probation ; the knight elect fasted , prayed , performed penance ,
received ...
The last act in this series of preparation was the conferring of the title of knight by
the prince , earl , or baron , with whom the party had passed his seven or eight
years of probation ; the knight elect fasted , prayed , performed penance ,
received ...
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The contest which afterwards succeeded between the parties terminated in
favour of our countrymen , who either ... This exploit , which we must applaud
rather than approve , ended , as might be expected , in the death of the party , to
the great ...
The contest which afterwards succeeded between the parties terminated in
favour of our countrymen , who either ... This exploit , which we must applaud
rather than approve , ended , as might be expected , in the death of the party , to
the great ...
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... insurgents lined the banks of the Thames . Those immediately shouted on
seeing the vessel ; and so completely alarmed Richard and the nobles with him ,
that they returned to the Tower . This prudent measure enraged the party on the
river ...
... insurgents lined the banks of the Thames . Those immediately shouted on
seeing the vessel ; and so completely alarmed Richard and the nobles with him ,
that they returned to the Tower . This prudent measure enraged the party on the
river ...
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Or if his cause be not all the best , yet may I move the parties to fall to some
reasonable end by arbitrament . Howbeit , son , this one thing I assure thee on
my faith , that if the parties will at my hands call for justice , then all were it my
father ...
Or if his cause be not all the best , yet may I move the parties to fall to some
reasonable end by arbitrament . Howbeit , son , this one thing I assure thee on
my faith , that if the parties will at my hands call for justice , then all were it my
father ...
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recovered against the hundred by the party robbed , if this law had not been
made . “ Provided also , that no person or persons , upon the Lord's day , shall
serve or execute , or cause to be served or executed , any writ , process , warrant
...
recovered against the hundred by the party robbed , if this law had not been
made . “ Provided also , that no person or persons , upon the Lord's day , shall
serve or execute , or cause to be served or executed , any writ , process , warrant
...
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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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