The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the Stuarts: Beginning with the Seventeenth Century, Being the Period of Settling the United States, Zväzok 1W. H. Colyer, 1845 |
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Strana 18
... half the day's earnings were equivalent to diet one day ; in modern times , however , a much greater proportion was ... half a pint of oatmeal between his meals , costing a farthing and a half ; two pounds of bacon a week , costing 61d ...
... half the day's earnings were equivalent to diet one day ; in modern times , however , a much greater proportion was ... half a pint of oatmeal between his meals , costing a farthing and a half ; two pounds of bacon a week , costing 61d ...
Strana 27
... half million per year . An extraordinary expenditure was necessary as long as the civil war lasted ; but neither the cost of the war nor the waste of it is supposed to have swallowed up the larger portion of the large sums that came ...
... half million per year . An extraordinary expenditure was necessary as long as the civil war lasted ; but neither the cost of the war nor the waste of it is supposed to have swallowed up the larger portion of the large sums that came ...
Strana 29
... half a year , and had a vast quantity of all kinds of military stores . It was to be joined by thirty - four thousand men , under the Duke of Parma , who were assembled in the Netherlands . A fleet of not above thirty ships of war ...
... half a year , and had a vast quantity of all kinds of military stores . It was to be joined by thirty - four thousand men , under the Duke of Parma , who were assembled in the Netherlands . A fleet of not above thirty ships of war ...
Strana 30
... half bow and arrow men and half harquebusiers . They still remain , and are called yeomen of the guard - but more commonly called beef - eaters , which any one , on seeing them , would be certain they did , in pretty large quantities ...
... half bow and arrow men and half harquebusiers . They still remain , and are called yeomen of the guard - but more commonly called beef - eaters , which any one , on seeing them , would be certain they did , in pretty large quantities ...
Strana 35
... half - pay list contains three generals to every regi- ment of soldiers , ( horse and foot , ) with other officers of all grades in proportion . This account does not include the county militia , which are only called out in time of war ...
... half - pay list contains three generals to every regi- ment of soldiers , ( horse and foot , ) with other officers of all grades in proportion . This account does not include the county militia , which are only called out in time of war ...
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Strana 239 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon ; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Strana 303 - Parcae thought him one, He played so truly. So by error to his fate They all consented; But viewing him since (alas, too late) They have repented. And have sought (to give new birth) In baths to steep him; But, being so much too good for earth, Heaven vows to keep him.
Strana 92 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Strana 290 - Nation, the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral Drama in the Song of Solomon consisting of two persons and a double Chorus, as Origen rightly judges.
Strana 16 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Strana 286 - ... their rage of will ; Their treasure is their only trust ; A cloaked craft their store of skill : But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind. My wealth is health and perfect ease : My conscience clear my chief defence ; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence : Thus do I live ; thus will I die ; Would all did so as well as I ! To PHILLIS THE FAIR SHEPHERDESS.
Strana 133 - If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink: Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, Or least I should be by and by, Or any other reason why.
Strana 56 - When he was in temper and matters indifferent came before him, he became his seat of justice better than any other I ever saw in his place. He took a pleasure in mortifying fraudulent attorneys and would deal forth his severities with a sort of majesty. He had extraordinary natural abilities but little acquired beyond what practice in affairs had supplied. He talked fluently and with spirit ; and his weakness was that he could not reprehend without scolding ; and in such Billingsgate language as...
Strana 93 - Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground ". As fine a stanza as any in his elegy.