England

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Findlay Muirhead
Macmillan, 1920 - England - 598 pages
 

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Page 498 - Romans, but its complete drainage and reclamation were not accomplished till the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century.
Page 446 - I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
Page 339 - That John Bunyan of the town of Bedford, labourer, being a person of such and such conditions, he hath (since such a time) devilishly and perniciously abstained from coming to church to hear divine service, and is a common upholder of several unlawful meetings and conventicles, to the great disturbance and distraction of the good subjects of this kingdom, contrary to the laws of our sovereign lord the king, &c.
Page 276 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.
Page 224 - THIS STONE COMMEMORATES THE EXPLOIT OF WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS WHO WITH A FINE DISREGARD FOR THE RULES OF FOOTBALL, AS PLAYED IN HIS TIME, FIRST TOOK THE BALL IN HIS ARMS AND RAN WITH IT, THUS ORIGINATING THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE RUGBY GAME AD 1823 This establishment of the running or Rugby game, as contrasted with the earlier, kicking game, had several important results.
Page 114 - ... a typical English city . . . alike of Briton, Roman, and Englishman, the one great prize of the Christian Saxon, the city where Jupiter gave way to Christ, but where Christ never gave way to Wodin. . . . None other can trace up a life so unbroken to so remote a past.
Page 212 - Manchester obtained parliamentary representation in 1832 and a charter of incorporation in 1838 ; in 1853 it became a city. The Lancashire cotton famine, due to the failure of the cotton-crop during the American civil war, caused great distress here in 1864-65. In the first half of the 19th cent. Manchester was a stronghold of the reform agitation that led to the Reform Act of 1832 and the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. The
Page li - Military Architecture in England,' by GT Clark (1884). — ' Military Architecture in England during the Middle Ages,' by A. Hamilton Thompson (1912). — ' Gothic Architecture in England' (1905), ' The Cathedrals of England and Wales ' (1912), and ' An Introduction to English Church Architecture' (1913), by Francis Bond. — Bell's ' Cathedral Series ' (edited by Gleeson White and EF Strange). — George Allen's 'County Churches' (a series edited by JC Cox). — ' Some Account of Domestic Architecture...
Page 325 - Elze, 1888. trust to the Corporation of Stratford in 1866. Much of the Elizabethan timber and stonework survives, but a cellar under the ' birthplace ' is the only portion which remains as it was at the date of the poet's birth.1 1 Cf.
Page 76 - College, Oxford, in 1343, and now harbouring four brothers and four sisters. The domestic buildings have had to be renewed. The chapel, which has been drastically restored, was assigned to Walloon refugees in 1567 and is now occupied by a congregation using the Anglican service in French (comp. p. 30). It contains the remains of the Earl of Cambridge, Lord Scrope, and Sir Thomas Grey, who were executed in 1415 for treason (' Henry V,

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