London and Its Environs: A Practical Guide to the Metropolis and Its VicinityAdam and Charles Black, 1862 - 391 pàgines |
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... 1861 , the population of the metropolis amounted to 2,803,921 persons , living in 360,237 houses , spread over 78,029 acres of ground , or about 121 square miles . B The following table shews the population of the different dis-. I.
... 1861 , the population of the metropolis amounted to 2,803,921 persons , living in 360,237 houses , spread over 78,029 acres of ground , or about 121 square miles . B The following table shews the population of the different dis-. I.
Pàgina 7
... acres , and a population , of 161,609 persons . Two - thirds of its area were pasture fields until 1760 . PIMLICO , a name of uncertain origin , applied to the district between Hyde Park and the Thames . It is now covered with streets ...
... acres , and a population , of 161,609 persons . Two - thirds of its area were pasture fields until 1760 . PIMLICO , a name of uncertain origin , applied to the district between Hyde Park and the Thames . It is now covered with streets ...
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... acres in the Finchley Road . FINSBURY takes its name from the fenny ground that existed here . The manor is held by the Corporation of London under a lease originally granted so far back as 1315. This has been renewed from time to time ...
... acres in the Finchley Road . FINSBURY takes its name from the fenny ground that existed here . The manor is held by the Corporation of London under a lease originally granted so far back as 1315. This has been renewed from time to time ...
Pàgina 11
... acre ! Such being the case , it is easy to conceive that the progress of improvements is slow in consequence of the very large sums required to carry them out . Improvements involving the outlay of sixteen and a half millions sterling ...
... acre ! Such being the case , it is easy to conceive that the progress of improvements is slow in consequence of the very large sums required to carry them out . Improvements involving the outlay of sixteen and a half millions sterling ...
Pàgina 12
... acres under cultivation for the supply of vegetables , and 5000 acres stocked with fruit trees . Strawberry plants alone cover more than 200 acres . Vast quantities of vegetables and fruit are poured into the Lon- don markets both from ...
... acres under cultivation for the supply of vegetables , and 5000 acres stocked with fruit trees . Strawberry plants alone cover more than 200 acres . Vast quantities of vegetables and fruit are poured into the Lon- don markets both from ...
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Pàgina 198 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Pàgina 306 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Pàgina 96 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of* some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Pàgina 96 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Pàgina 96 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Pàgina 100 - Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught, and led, the way to heaven.
Pàgina 258 - In emblematic figures, show The merits of their trade. That clients may infer from thence How just is their profession, The Lamb sets forth their Innocence, The Horse their Expedition. 0 happy Britons ! happy isle ! Let foreign nations say, Where you get justice without guile, And law without delay.
Pàgina 261 - Thames' broad aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers, There whylome wont the Templar Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride...
Pàgina 109 - Shorthand he wrote, his flower 'in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made.
Pàgina 261 - I have been many a time in the chambers in the Temple which were his, and passed up the staircase, which Johnson, and Burke, and Reynolds trod to see their friend, their poet, their kind Goldsmith, — the stair on which the poor women sat weeping bitterly when they heard that the greatest and most generous of all men was dead within the black oak door.