Wells, Exeter, and Worcester

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M. A. Nattali, 1836

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Сторінка 60 - I first adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despite. I first adventure,—follow me who list, And be the second English satirist. Envy waits on my back, Truth on my side; Envy will be my page, and Truth my guide.
Сторінка 61 - that I was three several times upon my knees to his majesty, to answer those great criminations;—and I was under so dark a cloud, that I plainly told the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, that rather than I would be obnoxious to those slanderous tongues of his misinformers, I would cast up my rochet.
Сторінка xx - England and the English," says on this subject: " Literary men have not with us any fixed and settled position as men of letters. In the great game of honours, none fall to their share. We may say truly with a certain political economist, ' We pay best, 1st, those who destroy us, generals
Сторінка 63 - about him in his pockets for any discourse, and had much more at home in his chests for any serious dispute. It is hard to say whether his loyal memory, quick fancy, solid judgment, or fluent utterance, were most to be admired, having not only
Сторінка 239 - WORCESTER; ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS OF VIEWS, ELEVATIONS, PLANS, AND DETAILS OF THAT EDIFICE, INCLUDING AN ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHURCH; AND BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES OF THE BISHOPS AND OF OTHER EMINENT PERSONS CONNECTED WITH THE CATHEDRAL. BY JOHN BRITTON, FSA
Сторінка 67 - do I doubt but I shall, by y r Lordship's favor, find the fruits of it as to something extraordinary, since the service was soe ; not as to what was known to the world under my name, in order to vindicate the Crowne and the Church, but what goes under the late blessed King's name, the
Сторінка xv - To the studies which I have faithfully pursued, I am indebted for friends with whom, hereafter, it will be deemed an honour to have lived in friendship ; and as for the enemies which they have procured to me in sufficient numbers—happily I am not of the thin-skinned
Сторінка 11 - So do I, Edward, place this privilege, or charter, with my own hand, upon the altar of St. Peter; and leading the prelate Leofric by the right arm, and my Queen Eaditha leading him by the left, do place him in the episcopal chair, my dukes and noble cousins, with my chaplains, being present.
Сторінка 68 - proof. He afterwards observed that he had upon himself, on his arm (as I take it) the plainest mark of a CROSS. Others had it on the shoulder, the breast, the back, and other parts. This account that great man, my Lord of Ely, gave me in such a manner as forbade even to doubt its
Сторінка 14 - covers the remains of the Rev. Thomas Morris, who, at the Revolution, refusing to acknowledge the king's supremacy, was deprived of his preferment, and depended, for the remainder of his life, on the benevolence of different Jacobites." At his death he requested that the only inscription on his grave-stone might be the

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