The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volume 7Thomas Maiden, 1808 - 524 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 100
Pagina 28
... body ; and , at the same instant , the eyes of him who had executed the bloody office , started from their sockets , and fell with it to the ground ! These , according to the early legends of superstition and igno- rance , were not the ...
... body ; and , at the same instant , the eyes of him who had executed the bloody office , started from their sockets , and fell with it to the ground ! These , according to the early legends of superstition and igno- rance , were not the ...
Pagina 29
... body of Alban was found , deposited , together with some relics in a cof- fin of wood , just as Germanus had placed them 344 years before . " • " The united testimonies of venerable Bede , and Matthew Paris , establish the fact of a ...
... body of Alban was found , deposited , together with some relics in a cof- fin of wood , just as Germanus had placed them 344 years before . " • " The united testimonies of venerable Bede , and Matthew Paris , establish the fact of a ...
Pagina 30
... body of the martyr now translated , and deposited in a shrine enriched with plates of gold and silver : Offa himself is recorded to have placed a circle of gold round the scull of Albanus , inscribed with his name and title . The walls ...
... body of the martyr now translated , and deposited in a shrine enriched with plates of gold and silver : Offa himself is recorded to have placed a circle of gold round the scull of Albanus , inscribed with his name and title . The walls ...
Pagina 32
... body of St. Alban had been removed . Still more explicit , how- ever , is the language of Paris : he affirms that Offa , " in his Mo- nastery , which he had begun from the foundations , within four or five years after he began the pious ...
... body of St. Alban had been removed . Still more explicit , how- ever , is the language of Paris : he affirms that Offa , " in his Mo- nastery , which he had begun from the foundations , within four or five years after he began the pious ...
Pagina 33
... body of Offa in the Monastery of his own foun- dation . Vulsig , or Ulsin , the third Abbot , is recorded to have been much addicted to intemperance and hunting ; and to have prac- tised , say his annals , the “ great enormity " of ...
... body of Offa in the Monastery of his own foun- dation . Vulsig , or Ulsin , the third Abbot , is recorded to have been much addicted to intemperance and hunting ; and to have prac- tised , say his annals , the “ great enormity " of ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 7,Deel 1 John Britton Volledige weergave - 1808 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abbey Abbot acres afterwards aisles Alban's ancient appears arms army Bart Bishop Brass building buried Cæsar called Cambridgeshire Castle chancel Chapel Charles the Second Cheshunt Church Cobham Court Crom Cromwell Crown Dartford daugh daughter death Deptford descended died Domesday Domesday Book Duke Earl Earl of Essex east Edward the Confessor Elizabeth England erected Essex feet Godmanchester granted Gravesend Greenwich ground heir heiress Henry the Eighth Hertford Hertfordshire Herts Hist Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ibid inhabitants inscription James Kent King King's Knight Lady lands late latter length London Lord Manor married Mary Matthew Paris memory ment Monks monument nave Oliver ornamented Parish Park Parliament Peter Lely pointed arches possession principal Queen Ramsey reign Richard Cromwell river Robert Roman Saxon says seat side Sir John Sir Thomas slab sold Somersham stone tion tower town wall west end wife
Populaire passages
Pagina 367 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hatband. His stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish; his...
Pagina 464 - Us, the point upwards : next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant ; her nose a little hooked ; her lips narrow and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar...
Pagina 375 - ' are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Pagina 371 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Pagina 417 - I do hereby freely promise, and engage myself, to be true and faithful to the Lord Protector and the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland ; and shall not (according to the tenor of the Indenture whereby I am returned to serve in this present Parliament) propose, or give my consent, to alter the Government as it is settled in a Single Person and a Parliament.'* Sign that, or go home again to your countries.
Pagina 413 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Pagina 465 - Latin, and the Languages I have mentioned, she is mistress of Spanish, Scotch, and Dutch: Whoever speaks to her, it is kneeling; now and then she raises some with her Hand.
Pagina 407 - What if a Man should take upon him to be King?" WHITELOCKE, "I think that Remedy would be worse than the Disease.
Pagina 464 - Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low ; her air was stately, her manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Pagina 420 - The heir, on the death of his ancestor, if of full age, was plundered of the first emoluments arising from his inheritance, by way of relief and primer seisin ; and, if under age, of the whole of his estate during infancy. And then, as Sir Thomas Smith...