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... appears as a great city , and a great city is not created . It creates itself from all the influences which have worked through its life , and London never loses sight of these influences . Rome , the greatest of all examples , never ...
... appears as a great city , and a great city is not created . It creates itself from all the influences which have worked through its life , and London never loses sight of these influences . Rome , the greatest of all examples , never ...
Σελίδα 14
... appear to be more than phases in the struggle for the sovereignty of a conquered district which should include London . There is no word as to the conquest or the ruling of London itself . The king of Kent and the king of Essex , each ...
... appear to be more than phases in the struggle for the sovereignty of a conquered district which should include London . There is no word as to the conquest or the ruling of London itself . The king of Kent and the king of Essex , each ...
Σελίδα 32
... appear to me that the evidence for the Roman system of drainage is necessarily evidence against the pile dwellings . There is ample room for both drainage and pile dwelling in these discoveries , and there is still one important fact to ...
... appear to me that the evidence for the Roman system of drainage is necessarily evidence against the pile dwellings . There is ample room for both drainage and pile dwelling in these discoveries , and there is still one important fact to ...
Σελίδα 43
... appear the lasting effect of the cult of Lud as he was worshipped at Celtic London , as he was continued among the gods of Roman London , namely , the expression of a Celtic religious feeling towards London in post - Roman times . This ...
... appear the lasting effect of the cult of Lud as he was worshipped at Celtic London , as he was continued among the gods of Roman London , namely , the expression of a Celtic religious feeling towards London in post - Roman times . This ...
Σελίδα 43
... appears to have been one of the Barbacans or Walch Towers , of 10 the Drawing was made May on the there were several at unequal distances . North noe of the Wall . For the particular course of the Wall see Pennants LONDON . Tue May ...
... appears to have been one of the Barbacans or Walch Towers , of 10 the Drawing was made May on the there were several at unequal distances . North noe of the Wall . For the particular course of the Wall see Pennants LONDON . Tue May ...
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Σελίδα 219 - I think verily that many a man taketh his death in Paul's Churchyard, and this I speak of experience ; for I myself, when I have been there...
Σελίδα 201 - ... 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...
Σελίδα 202 - There was never anything pleased me better than the seeing the enemy flying with a southerly wind to the northwards. God grant you have a good eye to the Duke of Parma; for with the grace of God, if we live, I doubt it not but ere it be long so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at St. Mary Port among his orange trees.
Σελίδα 356 - Saxons, as it appeared, were accustomed to line their graves with chalk-stones ; though some, more eminent, were entombed in coffins of whole stones. Below these were British graves, where were found ivory and wooden pins, of a hard wood, seemingly box, in abundance, of about six inches long. It seems the bodies were only wrapped up, and pinned in woollen shrouds, which being consumed, the pins remained entire. In the same row, and deeper, were Roman urns intermixed. This was eighteen feet deep,...
Σελίδα 117 - In 1262 we have the following remarkable passage. "The mayor, Thomas FitzThomas, during the time of his mayoralty, had so pampered the city populace, that, styling themselves the 'commons of the city,' they had obtained the first voice in the city. For the mayor, in doing all that he had to do, acted and determined through them, and would say to them, 'Is it your will that so it shall be?' and then, if they answered 'Ya, ya,
Σελίδα 319 - Your Committee have thus given a picture in detail of human wretchedness, filth, and brutal degradation, the chief features of which are a disgrace to a civilized country, and which your Committee have reason to fear, from letters...
Σελίδα 344 - A city in our conception is not the buildings — walls, temples, docks, and so forth; these are no more than the local habitation that provides the members of the community with shelter and safety; it is in the citizens that we find the root of the matter; they it is that replenish and organize and achieve and guard, corresponding in the city to the soul in man. Holding this view, we are not indifferent, as you see, to our city's body; that we adorn with all the beauty we can impart to it; it is...
Σελίδα 163 - Oxford scarcely, I will not say satisfies, but sustains, its clerks. Exeter supports men and beasts with the same grain. Bath is placed, or rather buried, in the lowest parts of the valleys, in a very dense atmosphere and sulphury vapour, as it were at the gates of hell.
Σελίδα 354 - Roman causeway of rough stone, close and well rammed, with Roman brick and rubbish at the bottom for a foundation, and all firmly cemented.
Σελίδα 272 - Next to be noted, the most beautiful frame of fayre houses and shoppes, that bee within the Walles of London...