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Pàgina 133 - And these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up .serpents; and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay their hands upon the sick, and they shall recover.
Pàgina 341 - Coldstream guards, with the rank of lieutenant-general, and, in 1784, was created duke of York and Albany in Great Britain, and earl of Ulster in Ireland. In...
Pàgina 138 - York, and it was not difficult to foresee that he would continue his endeavours to obtain possession of the vast magazines at Hull, which at that time far exceeded the collection of warlike stores in the tower of London. The policy of the parliament was to have these stores removed to London, and the two houses sent petitions to the king for that purpose ; but his majesty refused his assent, and the stores remained at Hull undisturbed.
Pàgina 149 - This was carried into execution the same night; the marquis drew off his forces; and taking care to prevent a pursuit by opening the canals, destroying the bridges, and breaking up the roads, he retired with tbe greatest part of his army to York, and detached the remainder into Lincolnshire.
Pàgina 13 - Bibo, supposed to be derived from having been a drinking house of the soldiers from the barrow camps. Hence the road proceeds to Stopebeck, which it crosses in the line of the Egton road, and then continues, at a small distance from that road, to a stone cross, called Malo Cross, which it passes at about the distance of forty yards on the west of the cross.
Pàgina 344 - Cobourg thought fit to abandon the operation in which he was engaged. The Duke of York returned to Tournay, in which place, and the neighbourhood, he continued until the close of the campaign. After some trifling affairs, the army went into...
Pàgina 214 - Piersebridge, there is some cold thin clay, upon what is here called a Moorland, consisting of a stratum from six inches to a foot thick, it is of a ferruginous ochreous appearance, and probably contains much iron, as wherever found it is attended with great sterility ; there is also some gravelly and some clayey loam. About Barton, Melsonby, and Middleton Tyas, the soil...
Pàgina 144 - Gray, where on the night of his arrival, he was arrested by Cromwell, on a charge of intending to deliver Hull to the king. Captain Hotham, however, eluding the vigilance of his keepers, escaped to Lincoln, and from thence proceeded to Hull. But even there he could not avoid his destiny; for Mr. Thomas Raikes, the mayor, having learnt by Captain Moyer, that the plot for delivering up the town would, if not prevented, be shortly put into execution, held a...
Pàgina 249 - ... meadows, arable land, and woodlands, and his only warfare is with the lower strata of storm-clouds, which is a convenient thing for the people who live in these parts; for long ago they used the peak as a sign of approaching storms, having reduced the warning to the easily-remembered couplet: 'When Roseberry Topping wears a cap, Let Cleveland then beware of a clap.
Pàgina 96 - Grey seized the opportunity to throw herself at the feet of her sovereign, and solicited him to reverse the attainder of her late husband in favour of her destitute children. The king pitied the suppliant; and that pity soon grew into love. To marry a woman so far beneath him, without the advice of his council, and at a moment when his throne tottered under him, was a dangerous experiment. But the virtue of Elizabeth was proof against the arts of the royal lover, and his passion scorned the cooler...