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 ... |
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Σελίδα 47
Numerous laws of the Kings Ina , Alfred , Edward , Athelstan , Edmund , Edgar ,
Ethelred , and Knute , the Dane , were written in the Saxon language ; the latter ,
according to William of Malmesbury , commanded that all those framed by ...
Numerous laws of the Kings Ina , Alfred , Edward , Athelstan , Edmund , Edgar ,
Ethelred , and Knute , the Dane , were written in the Saxon language ; the latter ,
according to William of Malmesbury , commanded that all those framed by ...
Σελίδα 106
Sir Eustace de Ribeaumont , a Knight of great courage and strength , engaged
the King in single combat ; and it was with much difficulty that the latter made Sir
Eustace his prisoner . After the conclusion of the engagement , the victorious ...
Sir Eustace de Ribeaumont , a Knight of great courage and strength , engaged
the King in single combat ; and it was with much difficulty that the latter made Sir
Eustace his prisoner . After the conclusion of the engagement , the victorious ...
Σελίδα 133
The duke of Norfolk in the latter reign was allowed one hundred ; which the
Queen never exceeded ; and archbishop Parker had no more than forty . " “
Before we dismiss the present subject , ” says Mr. Douce , " it will be necessary to
observe ...
The duke of Norfolk in the latter reign was allowed one hundred ; which the
Queen never exceeded ; and archbishop Parker had no more than forty . " “
Before we dismiss the present subject , ” says Mr. Douce , " it will be necessary to
observe ...
Σελίδα 137
not often taste of the latter ; but they certainly assisted in raising and grinding the
wheat for the former . The order and regularity preserved on these occasions ,
were strictly in unison with the ideas of decorum of the times ; and yet it may be ...
not often taste of the latter ; but they certainly assisted in raising and grinding the
wheat for the former . The order and regularity preserved on these occasions ,
were strictly in unison with the ideas of decorum of the times ; and yet it may be ...
Σελίδα 233
Another act accompanied the above , which was intended to restrain the
inordinate “ haunting of inns , ” ale , and other victualling houses , and the
propensity to drunkenness : the penalty for the latter crime was five shillings , and
the stocks for ...
Another act accompanied the above , which was intended to restrain the
inordinate “ haunting of inns , ” ale , and other victualling houses , and the
propensity to drunkenness : the penalty for the latter crime was five shillings , and
the stocks for ...
Τι λένε οι χρήστες - Σύνταξη κριτικής
Δεν εντοπίσαμε κριτικές στις συνήθεις τοποθεσίες.
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
according answer appear arms attended called cause character church commanded common conduct court custom drink duke earl Edward enemies England English equally excellent field force friends gave gentlemen give given habit hand hath head Henry honour horse hundred immediately instance Italy John justice kind king king's knights known lady land latter laws less living London lord Majesty manners master means mentioned monarch nature never nobles notice observed occasion offenders officers particular party passed period persons poor present Prince queen reason received reign relating respect rich Romans royal says seems sent servants serve shillings silver soon speak subjects supposed taken term thing thou thought tion turn young
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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.
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| Τίτλος | 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 ... Τόμος 1 του 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, James Peller Malcolm |
| Συγγραφέας | James Peller Malcolm |
| Έκδοση | 2 |
| Εκδότης | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
| Πρωτότυπο από | το Πανεπιστήμιο του Μίτσιγκαν |
| Ψηφιοποιήθηκε στις | 9 Μάιος 2008 |
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