The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volume 2Thomas Maiden, 1801 - Architecture |
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Page 260 - To this Bradshaw boldly replied, " Sir, we have heard what you did at the House in the morning, and before many hours all England will hear it. But, Sir, you are mistaken, to think that Parliament is dissolved; for no power under heaven can dissolve them but themselves ; therefore
Page 96 - case they all died without issue, he devised the estates to trustees, who, with the approbation of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Masters of St. John's and Clare Hall, were to found a college within the precincts of this University, to be called Downing College. The testator died in the year
Page 295 - now the apartment of the toad ; And there the fox securely feeds; And there the poisonous adder breeds, Conceal'd in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While ever and anon there falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder
Page 73 - Yea, is he so lusty ? Well, let the Pope send him a hat when he will. Mother of God ! he shall wear it on his shoulders then; for I will leave him never a head to set it
Page 265 - invented a machine to spin and reel cotton at one operation, which he showed to his neighbours, and then destroyed, through the generous apprehension that it might take bread from the mouths of the poor. This was previous to the late inventions by which the cotton manufacture has been so much promoted. He also contrived a simple
Page 14 - a very paradise ; for that in pleasure and delight, it resembles heaven itself ; the very marshes abounding in trees, whose length without knots do emulate the stars. The plain there is as level as the sea, which with the flourishing of the grass,
Page 80 - who was successively Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench. This eminent lawyer purchased a spacious mansion, which stood near the south-west corner of the great court of the present college, in
Page 376 - thought necessary. The insane person was made to stand on the wall with his back towards the pool, into which, by a blow on the breast, he was suddenly plunged headlong, While here, " a strong fellowe, provided for the nonce, tooke him, and tossed him up and down, alongst and athwart the water, until! the patient, by forgoing his strength, had somewhat forgot
Page 14 - very pleasant and agreeable to the eye, watered by many rivers which run through it, diversified with many large and small lakes, and adorned with many woods and islands." And William of Malmsbury, who lived till the first year of Henry the Second, has painted
Page 195 - by the Romans. They were built before the doors, midway between the streets and the houses, and were the places where dependents waited for the coming out of their patrons, and under which they might waste away the tedious minutes of expectation.