Curiosities of Great Britain: England & Wales Delineated, Historical, Entertaining & Commercial Alphabetically Arranged, Volume 8

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Page 1036 - ... FRY COLLECTION PRESENTED BY THE MISSES ESTHER CATHARINE, SUSAN MARY AND JOSEPHINE FRY FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE JOSEPH FORREST FRY AND SUSANNA FRY \ THE GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.
Page 1189 - I'd in pleasure, ease, and plenty live. And as I near approach'd the verge of life, Some kind relation (for I'd have no wife) Should take upon him all my worldly care, Whilst I did for a better state prepare.
Page 1190 - Wickliff, professor of divinity in the university of Oxford, and rector of this parish in the fourteenth century, who wrote against some of the doctrines of the Catholic church, and particularly opposed the pope's supremacy, for which he was prosecuted by his ecclesiastical superiors, but being supported by John of Gaunt and some of the nobility who had personal disputes with the clergy, he was suffered to retain his preferment. and propagate his opinions till his death in 1384 : his works, however....
Page 1186 - Bridgman, clad in his clay, God said to the Devil, —
Page 1184 - Lawes, who taught music in the family, wrote this masque. Lawes set it to music, and it was acted on Michaelmas night : the two brothers, the young lady, and Lawes himself, bearing each a part in the representation.
Page 1233 - Benedictine monks. which is spacious, is of the Gothic order ; a very narrow staircase leads from one of the angles of the tower to the summit, the prospect from which is truly sublime , it comprehends the entire view of the bay, the several towns and villages that skirt the coast, and an immense extent of sea.
Page 1199 - Even such words as these, or such pleasant jest, as this of Hannibal are not without their moment, but serve many times when battle is at hand, to work upon such passions as must govern more of the business, especially when other needful care is not wanting, without which they are but vain...
Page 1156 - ... superstition, and replaced by a brass equestrian statue of that monarch, which was cast by Le Sueur, in 1633, at the expense of the Howard-Arundel family. This was the first equestrian statue erected in Great Britain. During the civil war, the parliament sold it to John River, a brazier, in Holborn, with strict orders to break it to pieces ; but he concealed it under ground till the restoration, when it was erected in 1678, on a pedestal executed by Grinlin Gibbons, and ornamented with the royal...
Page 1195 - Soon after the explosion commenced a number of meteorites fell to the ground over an area a mile and a half in length and half a mile in breadth.

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