London in 1731Cassell, 1888 - 192 стор. |
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... arch of the gate is this inscription , viz . , Senatus populusque Londinensis fecit , 1609 , and under it , Humphrey Weld , Mayor , in whose mayoralty it was finished . 2. Bishopsgate , which stands north - west of Aldgate LONDON IN ...
... arch of the gate is this inscription , viz . , Senatus populusque Londinensis fecit , 1609 , and under it , Humphrey Weld , Mayor , in whose mayoralty it was finished . 2. Bishopsgate , which stands north - west of Aldgate LONDON IN ...
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... arches besides the draw- bridge , and is built with hewn stone , being one thousand two hundred feet in length , and seventy- four in breadth , whereof the houses built on each side take up twenty - seven feet , and the street be- tween ...
... arches besides the draw- bridge , and is built with hewn stone , being one thousand two hundred feet in length , and seventy- four in breadth , whereof the houses built on each side take up twenty - seven feet , and the street be- tween ...
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... arches . Four of the arches on the north side of the bridge are now taken up with mills and engines , that raise the water to a great height , for the supply of the city ; this brings in a large revenue which , with the rents of the ...
... arches . Four of the arches on the north side of the bridge are now taken up with mills and engines , that raise the water to a great height , for the supply of the city ; this brings in a large revenue which , with the rents of the ...
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... arch ; it is built of hewn stone , each side being adorned with four pilasters , their entablature , and an arched pediment of the Corinthian order . The intercolumns are niches replenished ; those within the Bar towards the east , with ...
... arch ; it is built of hewn stone , each side being adorned with four pilasters , their entablature , and an arched pediment of the Corinthian order . The intercolumns are niches replenished ; those within the Bar towards the east , with ...
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... arches that support the galleries above . The length of the building on the outside is two hundred and three feet , the breadth a hundred and seventy - one , and the height fifty- six . On the front towards Cornhill also is a noble ...
... arches that support the galleries above . The length of the building on the outside is two hundred and three feet , the breadth a hundred and seventy - one , and the height fifty- six . On the front towards Cornhill also is a noble ...
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abbey Aldgate Alley Allhallows anciently Anno Domini annum arches beautiful Billingsgate Bishop Bishopsgate breadth bridge built called Cassell's chapel churches of St City of London city of Westminster clerks cloth coaches columns common consists Corinthian order Cripplegate dean ditch Doric order east end Edward Edward the Confessor elected England takes entablature erected exported feet in length figures fish gate governors Guildhall Hall Henry Hill hospital hundred intercolumns King Charles king's arms kingdom Lane Leadenhall liberties linen London Wall Lord Mayor Ludgate magnificent marble Mary master Mercers merchants monastery niches north side officers parish Parliament Paul's pediment pilasters pillars PLUTARCH posts and chain principal streets public buildings Quay Queen reign revenues Samuel Pepys sheriffs shillings silk south side spacious square stone streets and places Thames Street Tower town trade tradesmen Tuscan order twelve Walk walls west end Westminster wine woollen Yard
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Сторінка 8 - By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways...
Сторінка 14 - And now, behold, the king walketh before you : and I am old and grayheaded ; and, behold, my sons are with you : and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
Сторінка 8 - Change; a dramatic enthusiast, as the grand scene of theatrical entertainments; a man of pleasure, as an assemblage of taverns, and the great emporium for ladies of easy virtue. But the intellectual man is struck with it, as comprehending the whole of human life in all its variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible.
Сторінка 117 - I have renewed and honored the holy church of the blessed apostle St. Peter, of Westminster; and I order and establish for ever, that what person, of what condition or estate soever he be, from whence soever he come, or for what offence or cause it be, either for his refuge into the said holy place, he be assured of his life, liberty, and limbs.
Сторінка 9 - Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
Сторінка 93 - Register, and at the same time pronounce him ejected in these words : — I do, by the authority and in the, name of the Royal Society of London, for improving natural knowledge, declare AB to be now ejected, and no longer a Fellow thereof.
Сторінка 77 - The Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of the City of London, Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods, of the Hospitals of Edward VI. King of England.
Сторінка 81 - The children are dieted in the following manner: They have every morning for their breakfast bread and beer, at half an hour past six in the morning in the summer time, and at half an hour past seven in the winter. On Sundays they have boiled beef and broth for their dinners, and for their suppers leg and shoulders of mutton.
Сторінка 38 - On the south side of Leadenhall Street also, and a little to the eastward of Leadenhall, stands the East India House, lately magnificently built, with a stone front to the street; but the front, being very narrow, does not make an appearance answerable to the grandeur of the house within, which stands upon a great deal of ground, the offices and storehouses admirably well contrived, and the public hall and committee room scarce inferior to anything of the like nature in the City.
Сторінка 168 - Clerks, Apprentices, inferior Tradesmen, Coachmen, Porters, Servants, and the lowest Class of Men in this town, which are far the most numerous : And, first, of the Lawyers' Clerks and Apprentices, I find it a general Complaint, that they are under no Manner of Government ; before their Times are half out, they set up for Gentlemen, they dress, they drink, they game, frequent the Playhouses, and intrigue with the Women ; and it is a common Thing with Clerks to bully their Masters, and desert their...