Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851Charles Knight C. Knight, 1851 - 860 pagina's |
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... means to take or kill , any of the said game within the pre- cincts aforesaid , as they tender his favour , and will eschew the imprisonment of their bodies , and further punishment at his Majesty's will and pleasure . " Had this ...
... means to take or kill , any of the said game within the pre- cincts aforesaid , as they tender his favour , and will eschew the imprisonment of their bodies , and further punishment at his Majesty's will and pleasure . " Had this ...
Pagina 41
... means that the new leisure was used for the advance- ment of an innocent and graceful recreation , and which may easily become more than this - a valuable and elevating study ; it was by its means that the new opportunities of inter ...
... means that the new leisure was used for the advance- ment of an innocent and graceful recreation , and which may easily become more than this - a valuable and elevating study ; it was by its means that the new opportunities of inter ...
Pagina 43
... means . It is impossible , indeed , to over - estimate the value of the services rendered to horticulture , and everything directly connected with it , by this society , which was established in 1804 , and incorporated in 1809. The ...
... means . It is impossible , indeed , to over - estimate the value of the services rendered to horticulture , and everything directly connected with it , by this society , which was established in 1804 , and incorporated in 1809. The ...
Pagina 45
... means , foremost among which is the opportunity of obtaining scientific know- ledge . In harmony with these differences are their positions as regard ownership- the one belongs to a society , who seek no profit , and are only very glad ...
... means , foremost among which is the opportunity of obtaining scientific know- ledge . In harmony with these differences are their positions as regard ownership- the one belongs to a society , who seek no profit , and are only very glad ...
Pagina 78
... means . Thus , there was a fire in Henry III.'s time , which burned the Palace of the Confessor , and which Henry rebuilt in the same spirit of magnificence , and with the same lavish recklessness of expenditure , that he exhibited in ...
... means . Thus , there was a fire in Henry III.'s time , which burned the Palace of the Confessor , and which Henry rebuilt in the same spirit of magnificence , and with the same lavish recklessness of expenditure , that he exhibited in ...
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Pagina 179 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Pagina 414 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be. Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign.
Pagina 205 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey: where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.
Pagina 201 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
Pagina 211 - Kneller, by Heaven, and not a master taught, Whose art was nature, and whose pictures thought ; Now for two ages, having snatch'd from fate Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with Princes' honours, Poets' lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirst of praise.
Pagina 420 - E'en such is man; whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom blasteth; The flower fades, the morning hasteth; The sun sets, the shadow flies; The gourd consumes, — and man he dies...
Pagina 370 - Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony; all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Pagina 205 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Pagina 132 - ... air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and...
Pagina 9 - Park to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between and Mrs. Nelly, f as they called an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and standing on the green walk under it. I was heartily sorry at this scene.