The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge: With Notices of Its Immediate Neighbourhood

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J. Russell Smith, 1859 - 282 sivua
 

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Sivu 124 - rampiers with their own soft hands To put the enemy to stands ; From ladies down to oyster-wenches, Labour'd like pioneers in trenches; Fall'n to their pickaxes and tools, And helped the men to dig like moles." And Nash, in a note on this passage, says:—
Sivu 267 - be agreed upon between the said Dean and Chapter and the said Commissioners, and to enter into such Contracts and Agreements for the Purposes aforesaid as to them shall seem proper; and all Contracts, Agreements, Sales, Leases, Conveyances, and Assurances, shall be valid and effectual in the Law to all Intents and Purposes whatsover. APPENDIX IV. TRINITY CHAPEL, MEMORIAL WINDOWS
Sivu 255 - VI. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SUMMARY. " The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has heen fruitful of new social evils. The truth is that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old. That which is new is the intelligence which discerns, and the humanity which remedies
Sivu 148 - Frail.—Not by a dozen years' wearing. But I do deny it, positively, to your face, then. Mrs. Foresight.—I'll allow you now to find fault with my face; for I'll swear your impudence has put me out of countenance. But look you here now ; where did you lose this gold bodkin ?—Oh, sister
Sivu 6 - Inquisition made before the Escheator of the Lord the King at the church of St. Mary Atte Stronde, on Thursday next, after the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary, in the ninth year of the reign of King Edward, by the Oath of Robert
Sivu 114 - Life Guardsman," but most shameful powdered-hair men and painted and spotted women." Horse and footraces were also held here. " Shall we make a fling to London, and see how the spring appears there in Spring Garden, and in Hyde Park to see the races, horse and
Sivu 148 - I'll swear your impudence has put me out of countenance. But look you here now ; where did you lose this gold bodkin ?—Oh, sister !—oh, sister! Mrs. Frail.—My bodkin! Mrs. Foresight.—Nay, it is yours—look at it. Mrs. Frail.—Well, if you go to that, where did you find this bodkin ? Oh sister! sister! sister every way ! Mrs. Foresight.—Oh!
Sivu 199 - friend of Swift, died at Knightsbridge, October 27th, 1758. He esteemed her highly " as a person of very good understanding, as any he knew of the sex." In his will, Swift bequeathed to Lord Orrery " the enamelled silver plates to distinguish bottles of wine by," given him by his " excellent lady.
Sivu 1 - commonly called Stonebridge, near Hyde Park Corner, where I wish no true man to walk too late without good guard, as did Sir H. Knyvett, Knight, who valiantly defended himself, there being assaulted, and slew the master-thief with his own hands." * Against these two proposed derivations, however, it must be answered that the place was * " Memorials of Westminster," by Rev. Mackenzie
Sivu 120 - WELLINGTON, And His Brave Companions in Arms, This Statue of Achilles, Cast from Cannon taken in the Victories of Salamanca, Vittoria, Toulouse and Waterloo, is inscribed By their Countrywomen. Placed on this Spot on the

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