The Social History of Great Britain During the Reigns of the Stuarts: Beginning with the Seventeenth Century, Being the Period of Settling the United States ...W. H. Graham, 1847 - Great Britain |
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... Trading Towns , Horse - racing , 68 Andrew Marvel , M. P. , Falconry , 71 State Trials , Archery , 73 Prisons , Cock - fighting and Fishing , 76 Medicines , Prize - fights , 78 Touching for the Evil , Skating , 81 Credulity , Cricket ...
... Trading Towns , Horse - racing , 68 Andrew Marvel , M. P. , Falconry , 71 State Trials , Archery , 73 Prisons , Cock - fighting and Fishing , 76 Medicines , Prize - fights , 78 Touching for the Evil , Skating , 81 Credulity , Cricket ...
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... and those of the elk are sometimes as heavy as fifty pounds weight ; and in a fossil state in Ireland , have been dug thus the first year the male is called a calf 64 THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN . Sporting Terms, Trading Towns, 176.
... and those of the elk are sometimes as heavy as fifty pounds weight ; and in a fossil state in Ireland , have been dug thus the first year the male is called a calf 64 THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN . Sporting Terms, Trading Towns, 176.
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... trade of a lorimer , or bridle bit maker , was then of some consequence , and no doubt profitable . I have seen a treasury warrant , dated 1621 , to John Shakspeare , bit maker to his majesty's stable , for £ 302 11s . 8d ; some of them ...
... trade of a lorimer , or bridle bit maker , was then of some consequence , and no doubt profitable . I have seen a treasury warrant , dated 1621 , to John Shakspeare , bit maker to his majesty's stable , for £ 302 11s . 8d ; some of them ...
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... trading to Venice , were obliged to bring ten bow staves of yew for every butt of Malmsey wine . It was from the Mediterra- nean the best wood came , of which their celebrated bows were made ; the following prices prove this : " A bow ...
... trading to Venice , were obliged to bring ten bow staves of yew for every butt of Malmsey wine . It was from the Mediterra- nean the best wood came , of which their celebrated bows were made ; the following prices prove this : " A bow ...
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... trade , and subsisted upon the subscription purses , or admittance fees . Many of these fellows went or sent round the country chal- lenges to combat in every village . The following sketch gives a description of the nature of the fight ...
... trade , and subsisted upon the subscription purses , or admittance fees . Many of these fellows went or sent round the country chal- lenges to combat in every village . The following sketch gives a description of the nature of the fight ...
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Page 263 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Page 284 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 99 - And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Page 318 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things. There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 105 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 254 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth 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 9 - Then being asked where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say within thine own deep-sunken eyes Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer "This fair child of mine Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,' Proving his beauty by succession thine!
Page 319 - Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend ; This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 276 - So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong; So schismatics the plain believers quit, And are but damn'd for having too much wit.
Page 318 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death.