A Sketch of Old England, Band 1Charles Wiley, 1822 - 555 Seiten |
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... rents due the University , licenses , taverns , & c . and , to use the words of an old author , " He takes care that sermons , lectures , disputations , and other ex- ercises , be performed ; that Heretics , Panders , Bawds , Winchester ...
... rents due the University , licenses , taverns , & c . and , to use the words of an old author , " He takes care that sermons , lectures , disputations , and other ex- ercises , be performed ; that Heretics , Panders , Bawds , Winchester ...
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... rents , " which , like most other mountain streams , are apt to run pretty fast down hill , and to tumble when they come to a perpendicular - all these , brother , are described by the picturesque travel- lers in such terms , that you ...
... rents , " which , like most other mountain streams , are apt to run pretty fast down hill , and to tumble when they come to a perpendicular - all these , brother , are described by the picturesque travel- lers in such terms , that you ...
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... acres of land for themselves and their children , to have and to hold for ever , without lords , rents , tithes , or taxes , they almost shed tears , and for the first time seemed sensible that something was want- ing to 117.
... acres of land for themselves and their children , to have and to hold for ever , without lords , rents , tithes , or taxes , they almost shed tears , and for the first time seemed sensible that something was want- ing to 117.
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... rents and heavy taxes will spoil even paradise , and bend the spirit of man down to the earth , be it ever so elastic . In a country labouring under these , it is not sufficient that the people have enough to supply their own little ...
... rents and heavy taxes will spoil even paradise , and bend the spirit of man down to the earth , be it ever so elastic . In a country labouring under these , it is not sufficient that the people have enough to supply their own little ...
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... rent to pay when their produce is cheap , as when it is dear , and conse- quently the plenty of a surplus produce , for which there is no demand , impoverishes them . Had they no rents nor taxes to pay , this profusion would be a ...
... rent to pay when their produce is cheap , as when it is dear , and conse- quently the plenty of a surplus produce , for which there is no demand , impoverishes them . Had they no rents nor taxes to pay , this profusion would be a ...
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Seite 28 - The Earl of Buchan, unwilling that so good a man, and sweet a poet, should be without a memorial, has denoted the place of his interment, for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792.
Seite 26 - The labourer bears : what his hard heart denies, His charitable vanity supplies. Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope, and nod on the parterre, Deep harvests bury all his pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres reassume the land.
Seite 29 - IN yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ! The year's best sweets shall duteous rise, To deck its poet's sylvan grave ! In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp ' shall now be laid ; That he whose heart in sorrow bleeds May love through life the soothing shade. Then maids and youths shall linger here ; And, while its sounds at distance swell, Shall...
Seite 183 - If it be for thy glory, I beseech thee give me some sign from heaven; if not, I shall suppress it.
Seite 47 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Seite 32 - Charlotte, shall from her sympathetic breast send forth the heaving sigh. Do thou teach me not only to foresee, but to enjoy, nay, even to feed on future praise. Comfort me by a solemn assurance, that, when the little parlour, in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read, with honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.
Seite 52 - English literature, already quoted, " he lived by his wits, in helping young gentlemen out at dead lifts in making poems, songs, and epistles on and to their mistresses ; as also in translating, and other petite employments.
Seite 183 - O thou Eternal God, Author of the light which now shines upon me, and giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech Thee of Thy infinite goodness to pardon a greater request than a sinner ought to make. I am not satisfied enough whether I shall publish this book De Veritate.
Seite 94 - ... eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder, that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty.