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Pagina 21
... nearly on a level , each high tide would as easily fill a dozen as a single one . Had there been no mill at the mouth of the channel , the supply might have gone on continuously ; but the mill continued to be moved by the stream , and ...
... nearly on a level , each high tide would as easily fill a dozen as a single one . Had there been no mill at the mouth of the channel , the supply might have gone on continuously ; but the mill continued to be moved by the stream , and ...
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... nearly the whole of the factories connected with the leather and wool trade of London . A circle one mile in diameter , having its centre at the spot where the Abbey once stood , will include within its limits most of the tanners , the ...
... nearly the whole of the factories connected with the leather and wool trade of London . A circle one mile in diameter , having its centre at the spot where the Abbey once stood , will include within its limits most of the tanners , the ...
Pagina 25
... nearly three times this amount , or at 13,000,000l . per annum . This sum he divides into three portions , viz . , 4,875,000 / , for the raw material ; 2,031,000l . for profits , rent of workshops , and capital invested ; and 6,094,000l ...
... nearly three times this amount , or at 13,000,000l . per annum . This sum he divides into three portions , viz . , 4,875,000 / , for the raw material ; 2,031,000l . for profits , rent of workshops , and capital invested ; and 6,094,000l ...
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... nearly fifty thousand pounds . On passing into New Weston Street from Long Lane we see the front portion of this building on the right - hand side . It is a long series of brick warehouses , lighted by a range of windows , and having an ...
... nearly fifty thousand pounds . On passing into New Weston Street from Long Lane we see the front portion of this building on the right - hand side . It is a long series of brick warehouses , lighted by a range of windows , and having an ...
Pagina 27
... nearly all the ox - hides , from which the thicker kinds of leather are made , are still sold at Leadenhall Market , which has long been the centre of this trade . It is not difficult to see why this is the case , for cattle are ...
... nearly all the ox - hides , from which the thicker kinds of leather are made , are still sold at Leadenhall Market , which has long been the centre of this trade . It is not difficult to see why this is the case , for cattle are ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abbey ancient appears arches Bermondsey Blackfriars Blackfriars Bridge Blackwall Brunel building called cargoes centre century church City Clerkenwell Clerkenwell Green coin commenced Company connexion court Deptford district doubt Earl East Edward England erection expense favour feet fellmongers gardens gold Greenland Dock ground Henry Henry VIII honour Horace Walpole Hospital houses hundred India Docks Isle of Dogs Jacob's Island Katherine's kind King Labelye labour Lady Lane leather leather-dresser legal quays less letters London Bridge Lord manufacture merchants nearly neighbourhood notice occupied officers once parish Parliament passed period persons pier portion present received reign river Road Rotherhithe says shaft shield ships side silver skins spot stone Strawberry Hill Street tanners Thames tide timber tons Tower trade Tunnel Vauxhall Walpole to Mann Wapping warehouses watch West India West India Docks Westminster Westminster Bridge wharfs whilst whole
Populaire passages
Pagina 377 - Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave lord-keeper led the brawls, The seal and maces danc'd before him. His bushy beard and shoe-strings green, His high-crown'd hat, and satin doublet, Mov'd the stout heart of England's queen, Though Pope and Spaniard could not trouble it.
Pagina 222 - of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste—in grace—in facility—in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the greatest masters of the renowned
Pagina 221 - I reflect, not without vanity, that these discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of Michael Angelo.
Pagina 146 - he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere : he was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great : he was a mechanical poet." In 1791 Walpole writes, "After the Doctor's death, Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Boswell sent an ambling circular letter to me, begging subscriptions for a
Pagina 295 - of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of White's Chocolate House ; poetry under that of Will's Coffee House ; learning under the title of Grecian; Foreign and Domestic News you will have from St. James's Coffee House.
Pagina 146 - I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray ; he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences : his writings are admirable; he himself is not agreeable."!
Pagina 214 - No wonder the Incorporated Artists soon sunk into oblivion, for they must have been deprived of almost every man of any eminence among them. Goldsmith's couplet on Reynolds, and the empty pretenders to knowledge who used to buzz about him, " When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his
Pagina 101 - thy own Phœbus, reigns, Joys in my jigs, and dances in my chains. But soon, ah soon, Rebellion will commence, If Music meanly horrows aid from Sense : Strong in new arms, lo ! giant Handel stands, Like hold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he
Pagina 170 - Let him that is no coward, nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Pagina 118 - Have I ever designed against your will and pleasure, that you should put me from you ? I take God and all the world to witness that I have been to you a true, humble, and obedient wife, ever conformable to your will and pleasure,