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... extensive learning , and great integrity of life . He is said to have been principally in- strumental in persuading the King to restore the university of Oxford to its pristine dignity and lustre . He wrote De Vita et rebus gestis ...
... extensive learning , and great integrity of life . He is said to have been principally in- strumental in persuading the King to restore the university of Oxford to its pristine dignity and lustre . He wrote De Vita et rebus gestis ...
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... extensive prospect renders the seats of those gentlemen which are situated on the edge of the hills , exceedingly pleasant in all good and clear weather . Hist . of Kent , p . 348 . + It is the opinion of many that the highest land in ...
... extensive prospect renders the seats of those gentlemen which are situated on the edge of the hills , exceedingly pleasant in all good and clear weather . Hist . of Kent , p . 348 . + It is the opinion of many that the highest land in ...
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... extensive an undertaking . The committee of management therefore , directed in the year fol- lowing , a more circumstantial and limited survey to be made ; and a bill to empower them to carry the same into execution , was laid before ...
... extensive an undertaking . The committee of management therefore , directed in the year fol- lowing , a more circumstantial and limited survey to be made ; and a bill to empower them to carry the same into execution , was laid before ...
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... extensive views of the Country round ; but the most pleasing " prospects in this neighbourhood , and perhaps in the County , are obtained from the high land , a little to the Westward of Aldington Corner * , and on the right of the road ...
... extensive views of the Country round ; but the most pleasing " prospects in this neighbourhood , and perhaps in the County , are obtained from the high land , a little to the Westward of Aldington Corner * , and on the right of the road ...
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... extensive ; the home grounds are disposed with considerable taste and from a judi- cious concealment of the fences , an idea of extent and capa- city is encouraged and an effect produced , extremely imposing : its character on the whole ...
... extensive ; the home grounds are disposed with considerable taste and from a judi- cious concealment of the fences , an idea of extent and capa- city is encouraged and an effect produced , extremely imposing : its character on the whole ...
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acres adjoining advowson afterwards aisle ancient anno appears Appledore Archbishop Bart belonging Bethersden Biddenden Bishop called Canterbury castle chancel chapel church dedicated considerable Cranbrook crown daughter dedicated to ST demesne descendants Domesday Duke Earl east Edward III Elizabeth erected former formerly gavel-kind Goudhurst granted Hadlow Hasted Hawkhurst held Henry VIII hill Horsmonden Isle of Oxney Kent King Edward Knight Lamberhurst lands latter London Lord Maidstone manor mansion marsh Medway miles nearly neighbourhood Newenden owner parish parsonage Penshurst Pluckley possessions present principal priory Queen rector reign of Edward reign of Henry reign of King remains residence Richard river river Beult road Robert Rochester Rolvenden Saxon says scite seat side Sir Edward Sir Horatio Mann Sir John Sir Thomas situated soil southward Sussex Tenterden timber town Tunbridge tythes vicarage village Wateringbury Weald west end William wood Yalding
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Page xxvi - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Page 199 - are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lies unmolested an ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and every thing that is nasty.
Page xxiv - But if we consider the matter more closely, we shall find that this interested diligence of the clergy is what every wise legislator will study to prevent...
Page xxvi - But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment, tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page xxiii - The artisans, finding their profits to rise by the favour of their customers, increase as much as possible their skill and industry; and as matters are not disturbed by any injudicious tampering, the commodity is always sure to be at all times nearly proportioned to the demand.
Page xxiv - ... to bribe their indolence, by assigning stated salaries to their profession, and rendering it superfluous for them to be farther active, than merely to prevent their flock from straying in quest of new pastures. And in this manner ecclesiastical establishments, though commonly they arose at first from religious views, prove in the end advantageous to the political interests of society.
Page 197 - Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed : As for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well : For seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides.
Page xxvi - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all...
Page xxiii - But there are also some callings which, though useful and even necessary in a state, bring no particular advantage or pleasure to any individual ; and .the supreme power is obliged to alter its conduct with regard to the retainers of those professions. It must give them public encouragement in order to their subsistence, and it must provide against that negligence to which they will naturally be subject, either by annexing...
Page 194 - YE towers sublime! deserted now and drear! Ye woods ! deep sighing to the hollow blast, The musing wanderer loves to linger near, While History points to all your glories past: And startling from their haunts the timid deer, To trace the walks obscured by matted fern, Which Waller's soothing lyre were wont to hear, But where now clamours the discordant hern!