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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... natural cavern was his only shelter , and rough flints his sole implements . It might indeed be asserted that every cavern on our continent - that has been sealed from weather and flood - is found to bear traces of this early occupation ...
... natural cavern was his only shelter , and rough flints his sole implements . It might indeed be asserted that every cavern on our continent - that has been sealed from weather and flood - is found to bear traces of this early occupation ...
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... , but nothing like a wall or fence . § Ann . lib . xiv , c . 39. Tacitus , it must be owned , repeats these numbers with a natural hesitation , but Xiphiline has stronger faith , tribes . Yet we are to credit , on the 6.
... , but nothing like a wall or fence . § Ann . lib . xiv , c . 39. Tacitus , it must be owned , repeats these numbers with a natural hesitation , but Xiphiline has stronger faith , tribes . Yet we are to credit , on the 6.
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... natural strength . From Aikin's map it will be seen that the castle was protected , especially on the north and west sides , by a steep precipice , and that an ancient branch of the Irwell , or an artificial fosse , having connection ...
... natural strength . From Aikin's map it will be seen that the castle was protected , especially on the north and west sides , by a steep precipice , and that an ancient branch of the Irwell , or an artificial fosse , having connection ...
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... these I shall merely notice the lead- ing features , with anything of interest they may present , referring you to well known publications in which their great natural beauties have been described more minutely and more at.
... these I shall merely notice the lead- ing features , with anything of interest they may present , referring you to well known publications in which their great natural beauties have been described more minutely and more at.
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... natural and planted , the verdant fields , level in the centre of the vale and pleasantly undulated at the sides and extremities , and watered by one of the brightest and clearest of all streamlets , the quaint , old , grey farm houses ...
... natural and planted , the verdant fields , level in the centre of the vale and pleasantly undulated at the sides and extremities , and watered by one of the brightest and clearest of all streamlets , the quaint , old , grey farm houses ...
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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...