London in Modern Times, or, Sketches of the great metropolis during the last two centuriesReligious Tract Society, 1851 - 192 pàgines |
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Pàgina 20
... kind of still roar or loud whisper . It is the great exchange of all discourse , and no business whatsoever but is here stirring and a foot . It is the synod of all pates politic , jointed and laid together in the most serious posture ...
... kind of still roar or loud whisper . It is the great exchange of all discourse , and no business whatsoever but is here stirring and a foot . It is the synod of all pates politic , jointed and laid together in the most serious posture ...
Pàgina 37
... kind of men he was appealing to , that their feelings were already enlisted in the cause , that they had already given proofs of earnest resolution to support it , and of a liberal and self - denying spirit . While his majesty had been ...
... kind of men he was appealing to , that their feelings were already enlisted in the cause , that they had already given proofs of earnest resolution to support it , and of a liberal and self - denying spirit . While his majesty had been ...
Pàgina 75
... kind which at that time could be supplied . The whole was a fitting prelude to the reign that followed , and an affecting com- mentary on the moving exhortations of Baxter , to which we have before referred . A band of wild and crazy ...
... kind which at that time could be supplied . The whole was a fitting prelude to the reign that followed , and an affecting com- mentary on the moving exhortations of Baxter , to which we have before referred . A band of wild and crazy ...
Pàgina 77
... kind that ever befel our fathers can be compared with the awful visitation of the great plague year . It broke out in Drury - lane , in the month of December , 1664. For some time it had been raging in Holland , and apprehensions of its ...
... kind that ever befel our fathers can be compared with the awful visitation of the great plague year . It broke out in Drury - lane , in the month of December , 1664. For some time it had been raging in Holland , and apprehensions of its ...
Pàgina 79
... kind that to my remembrance I ever saw . " Again , on the 17th of June : " It struck me very deep this afternoon , going with a hackney coach down Holborn from the lord treasurer's , the coachman I found to drive easily , and easily ...
... kind that to my remembrance I ever saw . " Again , on the 17th of June : " It struck me very deep this afternoon , going with a hackney coach down Holborn from the lord treasurer's , the coachman I found to drive easily , and easily ...
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Pàgina 145 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Pàgina 78 - This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
Pàgina 39 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Pàgina 33 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, "See, this is new"? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Pàgina 56 - I thank you heartily, my Lord, for that. I had almost forgotten it. In troth, Sirs, my conscience in religion, I think, is very well known to all the world, and therefore I declare before you all that I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England, as I found it left me by my father.
Pàgina 20 - It is more than this ; the world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion justling and turning. It is a heap of stones, and men with a vast confusion of languages ; and, were the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel.
Pàgina 20 - The noise in it is like that of bees, a strange humming or buzz mixed of walking tongues and feet; it is a kind of still roar or loud whisper.
Pàgina 27 - ... he made many several lowly bowings ; and coming up to the side of the table where the bread and wine were covered, he bowed seven times ; and then, after the reading of many prayers, he came near the bread, and gently lifted up...
Pàgina 155 - Parnassus by those who could with equal right have raised them bowers in the vale of Tempe, or erected their altars among the flexures of Meander? Why was Jove himself nursed upon a mountain? or why did the goddesses, when the prize of beauty was contested, try the cause upon the top of Ida?
Pàgina 21 - The visitants are all men without exceptions, but the principal inhabitants and possessors are stale knights and captains out of service; men of long rapiers and breeches, which after all turn merchants here and traffic for news. Some make it a preface to their dinner, and travel for a stomach; but thriftier men make it their ordinary, and board here very cheap. Of all such places it is least haunted with hobgoblins, for if a ghost would walk more, he could not.