Notes and Essays, Archæological, Historical, and Topographical, Relating to the Counties of Hants and Wilts

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By the author, 1851 - 271 pages
 

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Page 106 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Page 223 - EPITAPH. ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother : Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 44 - St. Mary's, to sweep away all the rotten bones, that be called ' relics ;' which we may not omit, lest it should be thought we came more for the treasure, than for avoiding of the abomination of idolatry.
Page 41 - Visitations, as by sundry credible informations, considering also that divers and great solemn Monasteries of this realm, wherein (thanks be to God) religion is right well kept and observed, be destitute of such full number of religious persons as they ought and may keep, hath thought good that a plain declaration should be made of the premises, as well to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, as to other his loving subjects the Commons in this present Parliament assembled...
Page 158 - Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. HAMLET. No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander...
Page 116 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Page 271 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime ador'd, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind : Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill : And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Page 203 - That you, and each of you, be taken to the place from whence you came, and that you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there be hung by the neck until you are dead, and afterwards your head severed from your body, and your body divided into four quarters, to be disposed of as his Majesty may direct; and may God, in his infinite goodness, have mercy on your souls.
Page 50 - King's exchequer, yet the far greatest part of the prey came to other hands : insomuch that many private men's parlours were hung with altar-cloths ; their tables and beds covered with copes, instead of carpets and coverlids ; and many made carousing cups of the sacred chalices, as once Belshazzar celebrated his drunken feast in the sanctified vessels of the Temple.
Page 178 - This memorial, being decayed, was restored by the officers of the garrison, AD 1781 : — An honest soldier never is forgot, Whether he die by musket or by pot. This stone was placed by the North Hants Militia, when disembodied at Winchester, on 26th April, 1802, in consequence of the original stone being destroyed.

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