The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley, M.D.: And the Antiquarian and Other Correspondence of William Stukeley, Roger & Samuel Gale, Etc, Volume 73Society, 1882 - Antiquarians |
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... hands . A portion of these collections was exhibited by him at the Congress of the Archæological Institute held at Lincoln in 1848 , and the Council of that Society con- sidered these Memorials so curious and valuable as to be well ...
... hands . A portion of these collections was exhibited by him at the Congress of the Archæological Institute held at Lincoln in 1848 , and the Council of that Society con- sidered these Memorials so curious and valuable as to be well ...
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... hands of Dr. Pakey of Lincoln , given by the Harts who bought it , particularly the 10 acres now in possession of Mr. Ball wherein is the Mill , which I have seen in an old Map of South Holland in possession of Mr. M. Johnson of ...
... hands of Dr. Pakey of Lincoln , given by the Harts who bought it , particularly the 10 acres now in possession of Mr. Ball wherein is the Mill , which I have seen in an old Map of South Holland in possession of Mr. M. Johnson of ...
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... hand at the Battel of Marston Morell where he rec'd his Deaths wound . This Dr. Tancred Robinson12 told me , 13 who is descended from the Croslands . Mrs. Ellen Crosland was a very great Beauty & had the honor of a salute from King ...
... hand at the Battel of Marston Morell where he rec'd his Deaths wound . This Dr. Tancred Robinson12 told me , 13 who is descended from the Croslands . Mrs. Ellen Crosland was a very great Beauty & had the honor of a salute from King ...
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... hand , the Burden being ( which I remember ever since a schoolboy ) For George without Garter has lost his sham ... hands ; ready to lend his advise & money to those that wanted it , & in vindicating them from wrong & oppression ; the ...
... hand , the Burden being ( which I remember ever since a schoolboy ) For George without Garter has lost his sham ... hands ; ready to lend his advise & money to those that wanted it , & in vindicating them from wrong & oppression ; the ...
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... hands , tho ' he was the farthest person from favor- ing their Opinions , & would often mildly reason with them upon their disputes . Never any Country Gentleman left a fairer char- acter , nor was more regretted , For upon news of his ...
... hands , tho ' he was the farthest person from favor- ing their Opinions , & would often mildly reason with them upon their disputes . Never any Country Gentleman left a fairer char- acter , nor was more regretted , For upon news of his ...
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Page 408 - But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
Page 101 - Our life is but a Winter's day — Some only breakfast and away. Others to dinner stay and are full fed, The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day : Who goes the soonest has the least to pay.
Page 285 - Berkshire, particularly showing, that the White Horse, which gives name to the Vale, is a Monument of the West Saxons made in memory of a great victory obtained over the Danes, AD 871.
Page 120 - a bold insolent man, with a very small measure of religion, virtue, learning, or good sense ; but he resolved to force himself into popularity and preferment, by the most petulant railings at dissenters and low churchmen, in several sermons and libels, written without either chasteness of style or liveliness of expression.
Page 36 - And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly : the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Page 137 - May 1731, he married Lady Elizabeth Lee, daughter of the Earl of Lichfield, and widow of Colonel Lee.
Page 297 - For I hardly think there ever appeared, in any learned Language, so execrable a heap of nonsense, under the name of Commentaries, as hath been lately given us on a certain satyric Poet, of the last Age, by his Editor and Coadjutor.
Page 165 - Why sleep'st thou, Eve? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields To the night-warbling bird, that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song, now reigns Full orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing light Shadowy sets off the face of things, in vain, If none regard; heaven wakes with all his eyes, Whom to behold but thee, nature's desire?
Page 286 - It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. "Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber.