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Evelyn , in a letter to Sir Samuel Tuke , wrote , " Dr. Wren got the start of me , but both of us did coincide so frequently that his Majesty was not displeased . " Wren proposed to build main thoroughfares north and south , east and ...
Evelyn , in a letter to Sir Samuel Tuke , wrote , " Dr. Wren got the start of me , but both of us did coincide so frequently that his Majesty was not displeased . " Wren proposed to build main thoroughfares north and south , east and ...
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It is said to commemorate the name of Mary Abingdon , or Habington , sister to the Lord Monteagle , the lady to whom is ascribed the famous letter which occasioned the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot.2 But this is very unlikely ...
It is said to commemorate the name of Mary Abingdon , or Habington , sister to the Lord Monteagle , the lady to whom is ascribed the famous letter which occasioned the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot.2 But this is very unlikely ...
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66 When the Adelphi was building , Becket , the bookseller in the Strand , was anxious to remove his shop to the corner house of Adam Street leading to the Adelphi ; and Garrick was an applicant by letter to the " dear Adelphi ...
66 When the Adelphi was building , Becket , the bookseller in the Strand , was anxious to remove his shop to the corner house of Adam Street leading to the Adelphi ; and Garrick was an applicant by letter to the " dear Adelphi ...
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Walpole to Sir Horace Mann ( Letters , vol . ii . p . 153 ) . September 9 , 1771. - I must tell you of a set of young men of fashion who , dining lately at the St. Alban's Tavern , thought the noise of the coaches troublesome .
Walpole to Sir Horace Mann ( Letters , vol . ii . p . 153 ) . September 9 , 1771. - I must tell you of a set of young men of fashion who , dining lately at the St. Alban's Tavern , thought the noise of the coaches troublesome .
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( 19th ) The Duke received me very civilly , but ( perhaps through Maty's fault ) treated me more as a man of letters than as a man of fashion . - Gibbon's Journal . This last touch reminds one of Congreve , Voltaire , and Walpole .
( 19th ) The Duke received me very civilly , but ( perhaps through Maty's fault ) treated me more as a man of letters than as a man of fashion . - Gibbon's Journal . This last touch reminds one of Congreve , Voltaire , and Walpole .
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London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions Henry Benjamin Wheatley,Peter Cunningham Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2011 |
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