Ten Thousand Wonderful Things: Comprising Whatever is Marvellous and Rare, Curious, Eccentric, and Extraordinary, in All Ages and Nations ...Edmund Fillingham King G. Routledge, 1894 - 684 Seiten |
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... OBTAINED UMBRELLA , ANGLO - SAXON PASES , ANCIENT GREEK ROMAN , IN BLACK WARE --A SEPULCHRAL , or ANCIENT DGYPI ... 000 PAGE PADO Abbey Buildings , The Arrangement of ... 658 viii INDEX TO ENGRAVINGS . MONUMENTS, WATSIDE PAGE.
... OBTAINED UMBRELLA , ANGLO - SAXON PASES , ANCIENT GREEK ROMAN , IN BLACK WARE --A SEPULCHRAL , or ANCIENT DGYPI ... 000 PAGE PADO Abbey Buildings , The Arrangement of ... 658 viii INDEX TO ENGRAVINGS . MONUMENTS, WATSIDE PAGE.
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... Buildings , The Arrangement of ... 658 Abraham and Sarah 101 ... ... Abyssinian Ladies , Dress of the ... ... 491 Armour , Ancient , Curious Piece of Arms , Abyssinian Artists , Duration of Life amongst 541 ... 6 9 ... 196 Abyssinian ...
... Buildings , The Arrangement of ... 658 Abraham and Sarah 101 ... ... Abyssinian Ladies , Dress of the ... ... 491 Armour , Ancient , Curious Piece of Arms , Abyssinian Artists , Duration of Life amongst 541 ... 6 9 ... 196 Abyssinian ...
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... building have been made from drawings made on the spot . The house was long occupied as an hotel for foreigners , and was kept by a M. Pagliano . In 1814 it was devoted to the purposes of education . The Observatory , which is at the ...
... building have been made from drawings made on the spot . The house was long occupied as an hotel for foreigners , and was kept by a M. Pagliano . In 1814 it was devoted to the purposes of education . The Observatory , which is at the ...
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... building . The old doorway , with a projecting top , has also been removed . The interior of the house is in excellent repair , and has undergone very little change . The cornices , panelling , and the spacious staircase , are not ...
... building . The old doorway , with a projecting top , has also been removed . The interior of the house is in excellent repair , and has undergone very little change . The cornices , panelling , and the spacious staircase , are not ...
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... building is supposed to signify that they broke into some of their habitations in that manner . 7. They killed with the club eleven of their enemies , and took five prisoners . The former represented by the club and the eleven heads ...
... building is supposed to signify that they broke into some of their habitations in that manner . 7. They killed with the club eleven of their enemies , and took five prisoners . The former represented by the club and the eleven heads ...
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Seite 190 - MY loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Seite 318 - ... restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Seite 319 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers — to be taxed no more.
Seite 307 - ... for the first square, two for the second, four for the third, and so on to sixty-four. This the king readily granted ; but when the amount was reckoned up, he had not wheat enough in his whole kingdom to pay it.
Seite 438 - ... constant use twice a day all the year round, for he never failed to eat oysters before dinner and supper through all seasons : the neighbouring town of Poole supplied him with them.
Seite 43 - And graciously hear us, that those evils, which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us, be brought to nought; and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed ; that we thy servants, being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church ; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Seite 366 - I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
Seite 468 - ... turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff", and the cummin with a rod.
Seite 318 - Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride.
Seite 94 - ... in respect of its former scarceness and dearness, it hath been only used as a regalia in high treatments and entertainments, and presents made thereof to princes and grandees till the year 1657.