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Page 3 - ... bills at the like or higher interest. " Much about the same time, the goldsmiths (or new-fashioned bankers) began to receive the rents of gentlemen's estates remitted to town, and to allow them and others who put cash into their hands some interest for it, if it remained but a single month in their hands, or even a lesser time.
Page 175 - The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
Page 34 - Western to attend them, took their stand at the street door, where my two brothers had long been to receive the nobility, more than a hundred of whom were then waiting in the warehouse. As the royal family came they were conducted into one of the counting-houses, which was transformed into a very pretty parlour.
Page 35 - ... only from the brilliancy of her appearance, which was pleasing beyond description, but being throughout her whole person possessed of that inexpressible something that is beyond a set of features, and equally claims our attention. To be sure, she has not a fine face, but a most agreeable countenance, and is vastly genteel, with an air, notwithstanding her being a little woman, truly majestic...
Page 175 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade...
Page 149 - Knightley's Leap.' It was accomplished, we believe, on his celebrated black horse Benvolio ; but he was on his nearly as famous bay, Sir Marinel, when he led Mr. Gurney, on Sober Robin, over a gate such as a nineteen-stone man has never yet jumped, and never will again. The Pytchley had a fast thing from a gorse of the baronet's at Dodford, and ran to the Nen, near Heyford village, where there is a bridge across the river, and a six-barred locked gate in the middle of it. They were just running into...
Page 34 - A platform was raised in the street, on which, before their majesties alighted, my brothers spread a carpet, and as soon as they entered, the procession began. The queen came up first, handed by her chamberlain ; the king followed, with the rest of the royal family, agreeable to their rank ; the master and mistress of the house, and then the quality. On the second pair of stairs was placed our own company, about forty in number, the chief of whom were of the Puritan order, and all in their orthodox...
Page 35 - ... advancing to the upper end of the room, we performed the ceremony of kissing the Queen's hand, at the sight of whom we were all in raptures, not only from the brilliancy of her appearance, which was pleasing beyond description; but being throughout her whole person possessed of that inexpressible something that is beyond a set of features, and equally claims our attention. To be sure, she has not a fine face, but a most agreeable countenance, and is vastly genteel, with an air, notwithstanding...
Page 154 - I came into Parliament for Newtown, in the Isle of Wight, a borough of Sir Leonard Holmes'. One condition required was that I should never, even for the election, set foot in the place ; so jealous was the patron lest any attempt should be made to get a new interest in the borough.