Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ..., Tom 8;Tom 20Society, 1868 Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes. |
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... English Channel , and the larger lakes of Scotland . Now , in considering the savages who raised these heaps , and remembering always that they had advanced so far beyond the " cavernmen as to use pottery , it seems to me that the ...
... English Channel , and the larger lakes of Scotland . Now , in considering the savages who raised these heaps , and remembering always that they had advanced so far beyond the " cavernmen as to use pottery , it seems to me that the ...
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... English tongue . There may be a few among the younger members here who stare aghast at the mention of lost letters , in a language already spoken over the third part of the world , and which as yet is thought to show no signs of ...
... English tongue . There may be a few among the younger members here who stare aghast at the mention of lost letters , in a language already spoken over the third part of the world , and which as yet is thought to show no signs of ...
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... English speech which we use there are thirteen vowels ; the Latin alphabet , which our fathers were persuaded to adopt , has but five . Too lazy to learn the futhorc , per- haps fussing over it with holy water as an invention of the ...
... English speech which we use there are thirteen vowels ; the Latin alphabet , which our fathers were persuaded to adopt , has but five . Too lazy to learn the futhorc , per- haps fussing over it with holy water as an invention of the ...
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... English , as Balsac said of French , " if a " sentence be doubtful in meaning it is certainly bad grammar . " Our forefathers yielded something of strictness when they secured the most poetic idiom that the world ever saw ; but as English ...
... English , as Balsac said of French , " if a " sentence be doubtful in meaning it is certainly bad grammar . " Our forefathers yielded something of strictness when they secured the most poetic idiom that the world ever saw ; but as English ...
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... English character , constitution , and language , are the products of the combination of so many and various elements . Physiologically , the living generation of men embody and represent the qualities and properties of all past ...
... English character , constitution , and language , are the products of the combination of so many and various elements . Physiologically , the living generation of men embody and represent the qualities and properties of all past ...
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Strona 236 - They say, he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England '. They say, many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Strona 236 - UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE' UNDER the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i...
Strona 256 - When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit ; When the chestnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit ; When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close ; When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows...
Strona 36 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Strona 255 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry, her clothing is silk and purple.
Strona 310 - For so common were all sorts of treen stuff in old time that a man should hardly find four pieces of pewter (of which one was peradventure a salt) in a good farmer's house...
Strona 237 - ... palaces, navigation, &c. ; but now sallow, &c., are rejected, and nothing but oak any where regarded ; and yet see the change ; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration.
Strona 253 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Strona 172 - Since laws were made for every degree, To curb vice in others as well as in me, I wonder we ha'n't better company Upon Tyburn Tree!
Strona 262 - Yorkshire at that early period. The eldest of these men had a stern, savage, and wild aspect. His garment was of the simplest form imaginable, being a close jacket with sleeves, composed of the tanned skin of some animal...