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... known to have de- creased , and at no time during the first seventy or eighty years of the last century did it increase rapidly . Dr. Price calculated that in 1777 it was 543,420 , but there is reason for supposing that this estimate ...
... known to have de- creased , and at no time during the first seventy or eighty years of the last century did it increase rapidly . Dr. Price calculated that in 1777 it was 543,420 , but there is reason for supposing that this estimate ...
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... known as The Boro ' , " including Bermondsey and Rotherhithe ; population , 193,942 . In the west , Lambeth , with the adjacent districts of Kensing- ton , Walworth , Newington , Wandsworth , and Camberwell ; popu- lation , 386,027 ...
... known as The Boro ' , " including Bermondsey and Rotherhithe ; population , 193,942 . In the west , Lambeth , with the adjacent districts of Kensing- ton , Walworth , Newington , Wandsworth , and Camberwell ; popu- lation , 386,027 ...
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... known to pleasure - seekers . KENSINGTON , including Brompton , lies north and north - west of Chelsea . In the interval between the last two censuses , it has made an immense stride in population . In 1861 it had 186,463 inhabitants ...
... known to pleasure - seekers . KENSINGTON , including Brompton , lies north and north - west of Chelsea . In the interval between the last two censuses , it has made an immense stride in population . In 1861 it had 186,463 inhabitants ...
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... known as the Metropolitan Board of Works , and it has lately built for its own use a handsome set of offices on the site of Berkeley House , Spring Gardens , at the cost of £ 15,000 . A ground rent of £ 500 a - year is paid to the Crown ...
... known as the Metropolitan Board of Works , and it has lately built for its own use a handsome set of offices on the site of Berkeley House , Spring Gardens , at the cost of £ 15,000 . A ground rent of £ 500 a - year is paid to the Crown ...
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... deserving of notice for its history and extent than the others . The stream called the New River is well known to those who traverse the country to the It north of London from its winding well - marked SUPPLY OF WATER . 13.
... deserving of notice for its history and extent than the others . The stream called the New River is well known to those who traverse the country to the It north of London from its winding well - marked SUPPLY OF WATER . 13.
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Page 178 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 76 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 76 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of* some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 80 - Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught, and led, the way to heaven.
Page 85 - A most refreshing preparation for the complexion, dispelling the cloud of languor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, and immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity and healthful state of the Skin. Freckles, Tan Spots, Pimples, Flushes, and Discoloration fly before its application, and give place to ,a healthy and clear complexion.
Page 89 - Shorthand he wrote, his flower 'in prime did fade, And hasty death short-hand of him hath made.
Page 76 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Page 243 - I have been many a time in the chambers in the Temple which were his, and passed up the staircase, which Johnson, and Burke, and Reynolds trod to see their friend, their poet, their kind Goldsmith, — the stair on which the poor women sat weeping bitterly when they heard that the greatest and most generous of all men was dead within the black oak door.
Page 83 - there have not been a more fantastic couple than his Grace and his faithful Duchess, who was never off her pillion.
Page 349 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.