Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851Charles Knight |
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... received the design of a magnificent Gate- house , which he built in front of the palace , opposite the entrance into the Tilt - yard . It was removed in 1750 , in order to widen the street , when it was begged by William Duke of ...
... received the design of a magnificent Gate- house , which he built in front of the palace , opposite the entrance into the Tilt - yard . It was removed in 1750 , in order to widen the street , when it was begged by William Duke of ...
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... received £ 3000 . It is with regret that we turn from these pleasant reminiscences of Whitehall and its accomplished owner to the darker events with which it is so permanently associated in our minds . A week after Charles had attempted ...
... received £ 3000 . It is with regret that we turn from these pleasant reminiscences of Whitehall and its accomplished owner to the darker events with which it is so permanently associated in our minds . A week after Charles had attempted ...
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... received and answered petitions or requests for justice from all parties . Going back still far- ther into the depths of the past , we find the same chamber called the White Hall , also the Lesser Hall , and lastly , probably originally ...
... received and answered petitions or requests for justice from all parties . Going back still far- ther into the depths of the past , we find the same chamber called the White Hall , also the Lesser Hall , and lastly , probably originally ...
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... received at that time . The exaggerated estimate made of the gain of the Spaniards by their American conquests had stirred the emulation of England . Merchants of Bristol and merchants of London were fitting out voyages of discovery ...
... received at that time . The exaggerated estimate made of the gain of the Spaniards by their American conquests had stirred the emulation of England . Merchants of Bristol and merchants of London were fitting out voyages of discovery ...
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... received after 3 . State Paper Office , 12 , Duke Street , Westminster , 11 to 4 . Stationery Office , James Street , Buckingham Gate , 10 to 4 . Tax Office , Somerset Place , 10 to 4 . Tithe Commissioners ' Office , 9 , Somerset Place ...
... received after 3 . State Paper Office , 12 , Duke Street , Westminster , 11 to 4 . Stationery Office , James Street , Buckingham Gate , 10 to 4 . Tax Office , Somerset Place , 10 to 4 . Tithe Commissioners ' Office , 9 , Somerset Place ...
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Page 177 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 199 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
Page 203 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey: where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.
Page 203 - 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.
Page 271 - May the great God whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 204 - Dr. Busby ! a great man ! he whipped my grandfather ; a very great man ! I should have gone to him myself, if I had not been a blockhead : a very great man !' " We were immediately conducted into the little chapel on the right hand.
Page 610 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate. Our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines. Our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan. Our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth. We repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies.
Page 200 - Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription.
Page 9 - Park to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between and Mrs. Nelly, f as they called an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and standing on the green walk under it. I was heartily sorry at this scene.
Page 130 - ... air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and...