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... record , in this place , the names of those to whom he feels especially indebted , yet , as some Gentlemen who have exerted themselves in fur- therance of the work , have strictly enjoined that their names should not be made public , he ...
... record , in this place , the names of those to whom he feels especially indebted , yet , as some Gentlemen who have exerted themselves in fur- therance of the work , have strictly enjoined that their names should not be made public , he ...
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... record of the past , the other its illustration , to our view , —we are enabled to delineate the flattering outline of our moral and intellectual advancement ? - In this point of view then , every contributer of facts ( and without ...
... record of the past , the other its illustration , to our view , —we are enabled to delineate the flattering outline of our moral and intellectual advancement ? - In this point of view then , every contributer of facts ( and without ...
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... records should be kept , but that all knowledge should be committed to memory , ) consequently , the little that has been handed down to us concerning these supposed barbarians , comes from the suspicious pens of their conquerors . From ...
... records should be kept , but that all knowledge should be committed to memory , ) consequently , the little that has been handed down to us concerning these supposed barbarians , comes from the suspicious pens of their conquerors . From ...
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... records of the kingdom are most scanty ; the Druids afford us no light , for they kept no records ; and the power of that ... record , should have exercised it so little upon the passing events . The general thread of history however is ...
... records of the kingdom are most scanty ; the Druids afford us no light , for they kept no records ; and the power of that ... record , should have exercised it so little upon the passing events . The general thread of history however is ...
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... records , and also to suggest , what appears to us to be the etymology thereof , and its true orthography . In Domesday ... record , the only change in the name of this place , with the exception of the final e , which was common to most ...
... records , and also to suggest , what appears to us to be the etymology thereof , and its true orthography . In Domesday ... record , the only change in the name of this place , with the exception of the final e , which was common to most ...
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Page 289 - Plight (towards the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century...
Page 279 - Let both grow together until the harvest : and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Page 44 - In witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hands, the Day and Year above written.
Page 25 - For the execution of this survey, commissioners were sent into every county and shire : and juries summoned in each hundred, out of all orders of freemen, from barons down to the lowest farmers...
Page 191 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 325 - For the first business of these Knights was to provide for such pilgrims at that hospital, and to protect them from injuries and insults upon the road. They were instituted about AD 1092, and were very much favoured by Godfrey of Bulloigne, and his successor Baldwin, King of Jerusalem.
Page 266 - They were a less strict sort of religious than the monks, but lived together under one roof, had a common dormitory and refectory, and were obliged to observe the statutes of their order. The chief rule for these [regular] canons is that of St.
Page 118 - This lady, whose maiden name was Moore, was the daughter of a clergyman, and the wife of the Rev. John Brooke, rector of Colney, in NorF4 to fame.
Page 37 - ... man was allowed to kill game on his own estate, but upon the conquest, the king vested the property of all the game in himself, so that no one could sport even on his own land, under the most cruel penalties, without permission ftom the king, by grant of a chase or free warren.
Page 326 - Templars: they were societies of those knights placed upon some of their estates in the country under the government of a commander, who were allowed proper maintenance out of the revenues under their care, and accounted for the remainder to the grand prior at London.