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Página 81 - His last employment of an evening was to go round his premises, let loose his dogs, and fire his gun. He lost his life as follows: Going one morning to let out his servants, the dogs fawned upon him suddenly, and threw him into a pond, where he was found dead.
Página 64 - Post," in 1695, announces, that " if any gentleman has a mind to oblige his country friend or correspondent with this account of public affairs, he may have it for two-pence of J. Salisbury, at the Rising Sun in Cornhill, on a sheet of fine paper, half of which being blank, he may thereon write his own private business, or the material news of the day.
Página 89 - During the latter part of the Eighteenth and the early part of the Nineteenth Century a number of insurrections and revolts were instituted, but were successfully put down by the Spaniards.
Página 64 - And whereas John Goodwin, late of Colemanstreet, London, clerk, hath also published in print a book intituled ' The Obstructors of Justice,' written in defence of the traiterous sentence against his said late majesty.
Página 79 - ... boats incessant : while at the locks at each end of the short summit, crowds of boatmen were always quarrelling, or offering premiums for a preference of passage, and the mine-owners, injured by the delay, were loud in their just complaints.
Página 63 - Upon all enclosures of open-fields, the farms have generally been made much larger ; from these causes, the hardy yeomanry of country villages have been driven for employment into Birmingham, Coventry, and other manufacturing towns, whose flourishing trade has sometimes found them profitable employment.
Página 5 - There were also within a few hundred years ; after Christ translations many into the Latin ! tongue : for this tongue also was very fit to convey the Law and the Gospel by, because in those times very many countries of the West, yea of the South, East, and North, spake or understood Latin, being made provinces to the Romans.
Página 10 - Marcus Petronius, son of Lucius.^ of the Menenian tribe, lived thirty-eight years, a soldier of the fourteenth legion, called Gemina ; he served as a soldier eighteen years, and was a standard-bearer ; he lies here.^ This inscription is believed to be the first record of the presence of the fourteenth legion in Britain.
Página 46 - The original memorial has wandered from its allotted station — no one can tell whither — a sacrifice to the insane worship of prosaic neatness, that mischievous demon whose votaries have practically destroyed so many of the priceless relics of ancient England and her gifted sons.
Página 5 - Againe they were not out of the Hebrew fountaine (wee speake of the Latine Translations of the Old Testament) but out of the Greeke streame, therefore the Greeke being not altogether cleare, the Latine deriued from it must needs be muddie.