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Σελίδα xiv
... River Head near Sadler's Wells in 1795. ( From an engraving by J. Swaine . ) . · St George's Church , Hanover Square , about 1790. ( From an engraving by John Boydell . ) . London and Suburbs in 1798 296 298 • 300 . 306 . 312 1 LONDON ...
... River Head near Sadler's Wells in 1795. ( From an engraving by J. Swaine . ) . · St George's Church , Hanover Square , about 1790. ( From an engraving by John Boydell . ) . London and Suburbs in 1798 296 298 • 300 . 306 . 312 1 LONDON ...
Σελίδα 23
... Rivers , Anthrop . Rev. , vol . v . p . lxxviii , and Mr Lewin , Archæologia , vol . xl . pp . 65-6 . On the other side is Mr Page and the Berks Archæological Society ( see Trans . of that Society , vol . xiv . pp . 245-250 ) . 2 Reid ...
... Rivers , Anthrop . Rev. , vol . v . p . lxxviii , and Mr Lewin , Archæologia , vol . xl . pp . 65-6 . On the other side is Mr Page and the Berks Archæological Society ( see Trans . of that Society , vol . xiv . pp . 245-250 ) . 2 Reid ...
Σελίδα 27
... Rivers dis- covered remains which he considered , with his wide experience and minute care , to be relics of pile dwellings on the banks of the Walbrook river . " Mr Reginald Smith , in- vestigating the course of Roman roads , insists ...
... Rivers dis- covered remains which he considered , with his wide experience and minute care , to be relics of pile dwellings on the banks of the Walbrook river . " Mr Reginald Smith , in- vestigating the course of Roman roads , insists ...
Σελίδα 28
... river in the lower reaches there is presented a sight which in the earliest period must have been much like what was presented as far up as London . Travelling by the rail- way , one first recognises the higher land - sites rising from ...
... river in the lower reaches there is presented a sight which in the earliest period must have been much like what was presented as far up as London . Travelling by the rail- way , one first recognises the higher land - sites rising from ...
Σελίδα 30
... river crossings . ( See Appendix I. ) Interesting as these examples are , they do not give an adequate idea of the London stronghold . They are too much in miniature . Fortunately we can turn to examples above London which represent ...
... river crossings . ( See Appendix I. ) Interesting as these examples are , they do not give an adequate idea of the London stronghold . They are too much in miniature . Fortunately we can turn to examples above London which represent ...
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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...