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 ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... attending their sacrifices ; than which a greater punishment could not be devised in the opinion . of the Briton : the contempt of his neighbours was a natural consequence , which , in itself , ope- rated to deprive him of other rights ...
... attending their sacrifices ; than which a greater punishment could not be devised in the opinion . of the Briton : the contempt of his neighbours was a natural consequence , which , in itself , ope- rated to deprive him of other rights ...
Σελίδα 16
... attending these two distinct opera- tions on the part of the Romans , serves to exalt the character of our ancestors ; as it requires neither argument nor reasoning to prove the courage and address necessary to prevent greater success ...
... attending these two distinct opera- tions on the part of the Romans , serves to exalt the character of our ancestors ; as it requires neither argument nor reasoning to prove the courage and address necessary to prevent greater success ...
Σελίδα 40
... attended a society thus constituted , has often been cele- brated ; and yet the Saxon disdained not to de- predate in the night , and feast on his spoils by day : a conduct by no means consonant with the noble and manly form by which he ...
... attended a society thus constituted , has often been cele- brated ; and yet the Saxon disdained not to de- predate in the night , and feast on his spoils by day : a conduct by no means consonant with the noble and manly form by which he ...
Σελίδα 48
... attended their cus- tomary celebrations , and , according to Ingul- phus , such were the general benefits of this sys- tem , that perfect tranquillity and security reigned throughout the land . The reader will judge for himself between ...
... attended their cus- tomary celebrations , and , according to Ingul- phus , such were the general benefits of this sys- tem , that perfect tranquillity and security reigned throughout the land . The reader will judge for himself between ...
Σελίδα 53
... a change in the habits and customs of our country . Amongst the other horrors attending the con- quest of a nation , none is more distressing to the suffering suffering party , than the insolent contempt they experience from 53.
... a change in the habits and customs of our country . Amongst the other horrors attending the con- quest of a nation , none is more distressing to the suffering suffering party , than the insolent contempt they experience from 53.
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Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 186 - I inquire of it, and hearken for it; but now charity is waxen cold, none helpeth the scholar, nor yet the poor.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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?
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.