 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1826 - 572 sivua
...was, " to cut a deep trench from Barn" stable to the south sea, for the space of near forty " miles ; by which, he said, he would defend all " Cornwall, and so much of Devon, against the " world ;" and many such impossible undertakings ; at which they who understood matters of that nature thought... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 450 sivua
...— "I saw here, at Mr. Palmer's, who was a merchant, a parrot above a hundred years old. They have near this town a fruit called a massard, like a cherry, but different in taste, and makes the best pies with their sort of cream I ever ate. My Lady Capell here left us, and, with... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1887 - 414 sivua
...strange design of cutting a deep trench from Barnstaple to the English Channel, a distance of about 40 m., by which, he said, he would defend all Cornwall,...world. Lady Fanshawe, in her curious Memoirs, speaks of liarnstaple as "one of the finest towns in England." "They have," she sayg, " near this town, a fruit... | |
 | John Murray - 1895 - 434 sivua
...strange design of cutting a deep trench from Barnstaple to the English Channel, a distance of about 40 m., by which, he said, he would defend all Cornwall, and so much of Devon, against the world. Lady Fanshawc, in her curious Memoirs, speaks of Barnstaple as " one of the finest towns in England." "... | |
 | Roger Granville - 1895 - 632 sivua
...scheme of cutting a deep trench from Barnstaple to the South Sea for the space of nearly forty miles, by which he said he would defend all Cornwall and so much of Devon against the world. Lord Clarendon ridicules the scheme, but Lord Lansdowne, in his " Vindication of Sir Richard," writes... | |
 | Jessie Bedford - 1903 - 384 sivua
...at Mr. Palmer's where we lay, ' who was a merchant, a parrot above a hundred years ' old. They have, near this town, a fruit called a ' massard, like a cherry, but different in taste, and ' makes the best pies with their sort of cream I ever ' eat.' From thence they proceeded to Launceston,... | |
 | Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe - 1905 - 382 sivua
...there at Mr. Palmer's, where we lay, who was a merchant, a parrot above a hundred years old. They have, near this town, a fruit called a massard, like a cherry, but different in taste, and makes the best pies with their sort of cream I ever eat. My Lady Capell here left us, and with... | |
 | Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe - 1907 - 766 sivua
...Mr. Palmer's where we lay — who was a merchant — a parrot above an hundred years old. They have near this town a fruit called a massard, like a cherry, but different in taste, and makes the best pies, with their sort of cream, I ever ate. My Lady Capel here left us, and with... | |
 | 1908 - 282 sivua
...from Barnstaple to the South Coast, a distance of nearly forty miles, and filling it with sea-water, by which he said he would defend all Cornwall and so much of Devon against the world ! Lord Clarendon ridicules the scheme ; but Lord Lansdown, in his " Vindication of Sir Richard," writes... | |
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near this town, a fruit called a massard, like a cherry, but different in taste, which makes the best pies with their sort of cream I ever eat. 