The Picture of London 1822..Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown., 1822 - 447 Seiten |
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Aldermen ancient Bank beautiful Bishopsgate Blackfriars Bond street Borough building built called centre Chancery lane chapel Cheapside Chelsea Church City of London Clerkenwell coach coffee house Common Company Cornhill Court Covent Garden curious ditto Duke East elegant erected feet Fleet street four gallery gate George's Fields grand Gray's Inn Guildhall Hall Henry Hill Holborn Horse Hospital Hyde Park Institution Islington James's King King's Bench Lambeth late Lombard Street London Bridge Lord Mayor magnificent Mary-la-bonne ment metropolis Middlesex miles Newgate Office Oxford street painted Palace Pall Mall parish parliament Paul's persons Piccadilly present principal prison Queen river road Royal Exchange seat shilling side situated Smithfield Society Soho Somerset place Southwark square stairs stone Strand strangers Surrey tavern Temple Thames Theatre tion Tower town Upper village wall West Westminster Whitechapel Whitehall William yard
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Seite 205 - And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.
Seite 366 - O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
Seite 25 - ... within the time mentioned. The entire number returned in the bills, as having died of the plague within the year, was 68,590 ; yet there can be no doubt that this total was exceeded by many thousands who fell by the infection, but whose deaths were not officially recorded. The...
Seite 170 - THE TRINITY HOUSE' shall mean the master wardens and assistants of the guild, fraternity, or brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the parish of Deptford Strond in the county of Kent...
Seite 37 - ... barges were driven foul of London Bridge, and as many more were either sunk or staved between the Bridge and Hammersmith: these events were attended with the loss of many lives. The destruction at sea far exceeded that on...
Seite 29 - ... of it by pulling down houses as ought to have been; so that this lamentable fire in a short time became too big to be mastered by any engines, or working near it. It fell out, most unhappily too, that a violent easterly wind fomented it, and kept it burning all that day, and the night following, spreading itself up to Gracechurch Street, and downwards from Cannon Street to the Waterside, as far as the Three Cranes in the Vintrey.
Seite 28 - Fish-street, which falling out at that hour of the night and, in a quarter of the town so close built with wooden pitched houses, spread itself so far before day, and with such distraction to the inhabitants and...
Seite 242 - Institution for diffusing the Knowledge and facilitating the general Introduction of Useful Mechanical Inventions and Improvements, and for teaching, by courses of Philosophical Lectures and Experiments, the Application of Science to the Common Purposes of Life.
Seite 138 - On the side directly opposite the door by which visitors enter, several yards of the seat are covered with matting, on which the visitor being seated, the man who shows the gallery whispers, with the mouth...
Seite 193 - The Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of the City of London, Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods, of the Hospitals of Edward VI., King of England.