Sketch of Furness and Cartmel ...Whittaker & Company, 1843 - 275 Seiten |
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Abbot aile Aldingham Ambleside ancient appears arches Astringent Backbarrow Bardsea bay of Morecambe beautiful Birkrigg Braddyll Broughton called carboniferous limestone castle centre tower chancel chapel chapter-house church cloisters Conishead Priory Coniston contains copper Copsehead Cumberland Dalton district door-way Duddon early east elevated enclosure erected feet formed Furness Abbey Furness and Cartmel Furness Fells Gawthwaite George Fox Gleaston groined guest-hall Hall harbour of Pile Hawkshead head height High Furness hills Holker Holker Hall Humphrey-head iron island Isle of Walney July and August June Kirkby lake Lancashire Lancaster land Lord Low Furness miles monks mountains neighbourhood neighbouring Norman painted parish Park pieces principal Rampside river river Duddon rocks Roman ruins sands Sandys scenery Seathwaite shore side silurian situated specimens stone style supposed Swarthmoor Hall Tarn Torver town transept Ulverston Urswick valley varieties veins village walls western tower whilst Windermere wood
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Seite 26 - The window consists of seven compartments, or partitions. In the third, fourth, and fifth, are depicted, in full proportion, the Crucifixion, with the Virgin Mary on the right, and the beloved disciple on the left side of the cross : angels are expressed receiving the sacred blood from the five precious wounds...
Seite 247 - ... a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Seite 218 - He was a man of great softness of manners, and of the mildest and most tranquil disposition. His voice was never raised above its ordinary pitch. His countenance seemed never to have been ruffled ; it preserved the same kind and composed aspect, truly indicating the calmness and benignity of his temper.
Seite 217 - ... by which his name and writings are principally distinguished, is, " that Jesus Christ, at his second coming, will, by an act of his power, restore to life and consciousness the dead of the human species; who by their own nature, and without this interposition, would remain in the state of insensibility to which the death brought upon mankind by the sin of Adam had reduced them.
Seite 248 - It is in an extract of a constable's journal kept during the civil war; and ends thus: "And there was never heard of such troublesome and distracted times as these five years have been, but especially for constables.
Seite 78 - Scots, in a predatory expedition which they made in that year, met with no iron worth their notice until they came to Furness, in Lancashire, where they seized all the manufactured iron they could find, and carried it off with the greatest joy, though so heavy of carriage, and preferred it to all other plunder.
Seite 26 - Catherine, with the emblems of her martyrdom — the sword and wheel. In the seventh are two figures of mitred abbots ; and, underneath them, two monks dressed in vestments. In the middle compartment above, are finely painted, quarterly, the arms of France and England, bound with the garter and its motto, probably done in the reign of King Edward III.
Seite 219 - His fault was the general fault of retired and studious characters, too great a degree of inaction and facility in his public station. The modesty, or rather bashfulness of his nature, together with an extreme unwillingness to give pain, rendered him sometimes less firm and efficient in the administration of authority than was requisite.
Seite 218 - In this sort of society he would open his mind with great unreservedness, and with a peculiar turn and sprightliness of expression. His person was low, but well formed; his complexion fair and delicate. Except occasional interruptions by the gout, he had for the greatest part of his life enjoyed good health ; and when not confined by that distemper, was full of motion and activity. About nine years before his death, he was greatly enfeebled by a severe attack of the gout, and in a short time after...
Seite 193 - It frequently happens that circumstances apparently trifling determine our character, and sometimes even our fate in life. I always thought that ELIZABETH was first induced to apply herself to the study of the learned languages, by accidentally hearing that the late Mrs. BOWDLER acquired some knowledge of Hebrew and Greek, purposely to read th.e Holy Scriptures in the original language.