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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... direction of Dr. Cromwell Mortimer , the Secretary of the Royal Society ; and so little was then known either of the character of the cemeteries , or of the objects they contained , that the learned secretary of that celebrated ...
... direction of Dr. Cromwell Mortimer , the Secretary of the Royal Society ; and so little was then known either of the character of the cemeteries , or of the objects they contained , that the learned secretary of that celebrated ...
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... direction from Bryan Faussett . The latter imagined that they belonged principally to a popu- lation which preceded the Anglo - Saxons . Douglas seems himself to have set out with this notion , but he soon relinquished it , and he went ...
... direction from Bryan Faussett . The latter imagined that they belonged principally to a popu- lation which preceded the Anglo - Saxons . Douglas seems himself to have set out with this notion , but he soon relinquished it , and he went ...
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... directions , on the Breach down , the remains of what appeared to be a small purse presented themselves , among which were four silver sceattas . Coins of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks are also found , and in the Faussett ...
... directions , on the Breach down , the remains of what appeared to be a small purse presented themselves , among which were four silver sceattas . Coins of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks are also found , and in the Faussett ...
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... direction , and so to have reached the borders of Wales at a very early period , after which they began to extend their conquests towards the south . The distribution of the cemeteries , as marked by the small crosses in this map , is ...
... direction , and so to have reached the borders of Wales at a very early period , after which they began to extend their conquests towards the south . The distribution of the cemeteries , as marked by the small crosses in this map , is ...
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... directions to give you a copy . I hope you have received it . I am now printing Observations on the Increase of Infidelity , and hope to have better success in sending it . " Another from Philadelphia on the 22nd of April , 1796 : - " I ...
... directions to give you a copy . I hope you have received it . I am now printing Observations on the Increase of Infidelity , and hope to have better success in sending it . " Another from Philadelphia on the 22nd of April , 1796 : - " I ...
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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.