The Etymological Compendium, Or, Portfolio of Origins and Inventions .. Containing a Particular Account of London and Its Public Buildings ...T. Tegg, 1830 - 356 strán (strany) |
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William Pulleyn. Moeres , king of Egypt , another in honour of his queen , and both were placed upon two thrones , supported by two pyramids , which were raised 300 feet high , in the middle of the lake Mores ; so that notwithstanding ...
William Pulleyn. Moeres , king of Egypt , another in honour of his queen , and both were placed upon two thrones , supported by two pyramids , which were raised 300 feet high , in the middle of the lake Mores ; so that notwithstanding ...
Strana 25
... Queen Anne , whose reign has been generally called the Augustan age of this country , was desirous of transmitting to posterity the Cartoons of Raphael , which had been purchased by her grandfather , Charles the First . With this view ...
... Queen Anne , whose reign has been generally called the Augustan age of this country , was desirous of transmitting to posterity the Cartoons of Raphael , which had been purchased by her grandfather , Charles the First . With this view ...
Strana 30
... Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book , some very difficult pieces of that era are preserved , several of which are by Tallis and Bird , two eminent composers of English sacred music . The English musicians of this period were equal to any of ...
... Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book , some very difficult pieces of that era are preserved , several of which are by Tallis and Bird , two eminent composers of English sacred music . The English musicians of this period were equal to any of ...
Strana 33
... queen's minstrels , who enjoyed a high degree of favour and protection . Yet , in some of the satires of the times , we find them abused under the names of chantier , fableeir , jangleeirs , and menestre ; whilst their art is called ...
... queen's minstrels , who enjoyed a high degree of favour and protection . Yet , in some of the satires of the times , we find them abused under the names of chantier , fableeir , jangleeirs , and menestre ; whilst their art is called ...
Strana 38
... queen Elizabeth's time . In those days the monarchs could not borrow without the collateral security of the metropolis . Interest was reduced from 10 to 8 per cent . , 1624 ; reduced by the rump parliament to 6 per cent . , and ...
... queen Elizabeth's time . In those days the monarchs could not borrow without the collateral security of the metropolis . Interest was reduced from 10 to 8 per cent . , 1624 ; reduced by the rump parliament to 6 per cent . , and ...
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The Etymological Compendium, Or, Portfolio of Origins and Inventions ... William Pulleyn Úplné zobrazenie - 1830 |
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Strana 169 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
Strana 152 - The insurance offices one and all shut up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world. Thus this custom of firing houses continued...
Strana 320 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Strana 89 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — ('Treason,' cried the speaker — ' treason, treason/ echoed from every part of the house.
Strana 324 - Oh, what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame, I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart : I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
Strana 73 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land.
Strana 8 - When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Strana 120 - Third to steal a hawk. To take its eggs even in a person's own ground, was punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, together with a fine at the king's pleasure. In...
Strana 46 - I seem to remember having been told, that a bad sweep was once left in a stack with his brush, to indicate which way the wind blew. It was an awful spectacle certainly ; not much unlike the old stage direction in Macbeth, where the " Apparition of a child crowned with a tree in his hand rises.
Strana 60 - I have been up all night (replied the old bard) ; my musical friends made me promise to write them an ode for their Feast of St. Cecilia : I have been so struck with the subject which occurred to me, that I could not leave it till I had completed it ; here it is finished at one sitting.