Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ..., Volume 8 ;Volume 20Society, 1868 Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes. |
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Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ... Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Affichage du livre entier - 1907 |
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ... Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Affichage du livre entier - 1905 |
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ... Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Affichage du livre entier - 1911 |
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Page 236 - They say, he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England '. They say, many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Page 35 - Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
Page 236 - UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE' UNDER the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i...
Page 256 - When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit ; When the chestnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit ; When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close ; When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows...
Page 237 - ... palaces, navigation, &c. but now sallow, &c. are rejected, and nothing but oak any where regarded ; and yet see the change ; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration.
Page 172 - Since laws were made for every degree, To curb vice in others as well as in me, I wonder we ha'n't better company Upon Tyburn Tree!
Page 276 - Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. 53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
Page 255 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 253 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold: To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 262 - His garment was of the simplest form imaginable, being a close jacket with sleeves, composed of the tanned skin of some animal, on which the hair had been originally left, but which had been worn off in so many places that it would have been difficult to distinguish, from the patches that remained, to what creature the fur had belonged. This primeval vestment reached from the throat to the knees, and served at once all the usual purposes of...
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| Titre | Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ..., Volume 8 ;Volume 20 |
| Auteur | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire |
| Éditeur | Society, 1868 |
| Original provenant de | Université de Princeton |
| Numérisé | 20 févr. 2008 |
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