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... gave many of the choicest materials towards rebuilding St. Paul's cathedral , which had lately been destroyed by fire ; and Henry I. gave as many of the stones , from the wall of the castie yard , as served to inclose the gates and ...
... gave many of the choicest materials towards rebuilding St. Paul's cathedral , which had lately been destroyed by fire ; and Henry I. gave as many of the stones , from the wall of the castie yard , as served to inclose the gates and ...
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... gave this royal pa- lace to the mayor , commonalty , and citizeus of London , to be a working house for the poor and idle persons of the city , and to be a house of correction , with seven hundred marks land , formerly of the ...
... gave this royal pa- lace to the mayor , commonalty , and citizeus of London , to be a working house for the poor and idle persons of the city , and to be a house of correction , with seven hundred marks land , formerly of the ...
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... gave 300 % . towards the charge . Anno 1607 , the Paper Buildings were erected , and being consumed by fire , were re- built a noble pile of spacious pleasant chambers , at the north end whereof are finely painted , appearing like so ...
... gave 300 % . towards the charge . Anno 1607 , the Paper Buildings were erected , and being consumed by fire , were re- built a noble pile of spacious pleasant chambers , at the north end whereof are finely painted , appearing like so ...
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... gave her great Hope , if not Assurance , through the Mercies of God in Christ , to obtain Eternal Life . Her Desire was to be buried here by her 2 Brothers ; Basingburn the eldest died the 23d of Feb. William the 21st , and Fram ...
... gave her great Hope , if not Assurance , through the Mercies of God in Christ , to obtain Eternal Life . Her Desire was to be buried here by her 2 Brothers ; Basingburn the eldest died the 23d of Feb. William the 21st , and Fram ...
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... Fursan , à Tem plar , who died about the year 1245 , and who gave to his brother knights his manor of Ribston , in the West Riding of Yorkshire . VOL . IV . No. 78 . E of of being drawn up , with the head of the LONDON . 33.
... Fursan , à Tem plar , who died about the year 1245 , and who gave to his brother knights his manor of Ribston , in the West Riding of Yorkshire . VOL . IV . No. 78 . E of of being drawn up , with the head of the LONDON . 33.
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Page 481 - you sec, Or like the Blossom on the Tree, Or like the dainty Flower of May, Or like the Morning of the Day ; Or like the Sun-, or like the Shade, Or like the Gourd which Jonas had. Even so is Man, whose Thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done. The
Page 303 - he was, he received the reply, that he was in the Jerusalem Chamber; he is supposed to have exclaimed : " Sacred be to God ! even then my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years I should not die bat In Jerusalem, Which
Page 299 - up to the bust of Milton: No more the Grecian Muse unrivall'd reigns; To Britain let the nations homage pay. She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray. . Died July 30, 1771, aged fifty-four. A neat piece of sculpture. The
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Page 552 - with a golden chain, whose office was to introduce to the queen any person of distinction, that came to wait on her : it was Sunday, when there is usually the greatest attendance of nobility. In the same hall were the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishop of
Page 368 - Near this place is interred / THEODORE KING OF CORSICA ; who died in this Parish, Dec. 11, 1756, immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison by the benefit of an Act of Insolvency; in. consequence of which he registered his Kingdom of Corsica, for the use of his
Page 484 - Mens Mouths rehearse; His Virtues and his Pills are so well known, That Envy can't confine them under Stone. But they'll survive his Dust, and not expire, Till all things else at th' Universal Fire. This Verse is lost, his Pills Embalm him safe To future times, without an Epitaph. Deceased April 26 AD 1672. aged 72.
Page 328 - each side: this extraordinary and superfluous space occasioned such an undulation from the voice of every actor, that generally what they said sounded like the gabbling of so many people in the lofty aisles of a cathedral. The tone of a trumpet, or swelling of an eunuch's holding note, it is true, might be sweetened by
Page 503 - of his present majesty, are to cease and determine immediately after the payment of certain sums therein mentioned ; and that the said intended road might be lighted, watched, and kept in repair, at the expence of a small toll thereon; and therefore praying, that leave may be given to bring in a bill, tor