Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ...: 1854-1856, Volumes 7-8Society, 1855 Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes. |
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... Chester presents Walton with a bridle To curb women's tongues that talk too idle . " The punishment originated at a period when some degree of ridicule was allowed to take the place of that severity which characterized earlier forms of ...
... Chester presents Walton with a bridle To curb women's tongues that talk too idle . " The punishment originated at a period when some degree of ridicule was allowed to take the place of that severity which characterized earlier forms of ...
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... , and my son William get a settlement in France , which I hope my friends there will find for him , I shall probably go too . Joseph says that many Dissenters will probably emigrate from Man- chester , and that if all be well he will 69.
... , and my son William get a settlement in France , which I hope my friends there will find for him , I shall probably go too . Joseph says that many Dissenters will probably emigrate from Man- chester , and that if all be well he will 69.
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1854-1856. chester , and that if all be well he will be able to go too in a few years to great advantage . I have been advised by Mr. Vaughan to put the £ 500 you kindly sent me into the French funds , and the rest of my little property ...
1854-1856. chester , and that if all be well he will be able to go too in a few years to great advantage . I have been advised by Mr. Vaughan to put the £ 500 you kindly sent me into the French funds , and the rest of my little property ...
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... Chester in 1770 , but quitted it for Warrington in the year following . His career as a literary writer commenced immediately , and all his early productions , like those of his sister , were printed at Warrington by Mr. Eyres . His ...
... Chester in 1770 , but quitted it for Warrington in the year following . His career as a literary writer commenced immediately , and all his early productions , like those of his sister , were printed at Warrington by Mr. Eyres . His ...
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... Chester also may be reckoned another of these centres of civilizing influences . They were then , and for centuries afterwards , rich and powerful governments in themselves , defying alike Engle , Sexe , and Norman . Of the five burhs ...
... Chester also may be reckoned another of these centres of civilizing influences . They were then , and for centuries afterwards , rich and powerful governments in themselves , defying alike Engle , Sexe , and Norman . Of the five burhs ...
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Página 47 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Página 49 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos,...
Página 119 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Página 47 - ... prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Página 58 - On no smooth sphere the restless seasons slide, No circling motion doth swift time divide ; Nothing is there To come, and nothing Past, But an Eternal Now does always last.
Página 55 - The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies.
Página 39 - It is worth while here to observe, that the affecting parts of Chaucer are almost always expressed in language pure and universally intelligible even to this day.
Página 43 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Página 43 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays With willing sport to the wild ocean.
Página 58 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.