The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Other Parts Adjacent, 1. kötetG. Virtue, 1839 |
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... kingdom , is a task of con- siderable difficulty ; the material being scattered over so many voluminous works , the major part of which are of extreme rarity . The author of the following volumes , fully sensible of the inconveniences ...
... kingdom , is a task of con- siderable difficulty ; the material being scattered over so many voluminous works , the major part of which are of extreme rarity . The author of the following volumes , fully sensible of the inconveniences ...
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... kingdom and his household would be protected against all injury . The event was otherwise ; for his kingdom was plundered by the centurions , and his palace by servants , as if both were given up for spoil . His wife , Boadicea , was ...
... kingdom and his household would be protected against all injury . The event was otherwise ; for his kingdom was plundered by the centurions , and his palace by servants , as if both were given up for spoil . His wife , Boadicea , was ...
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... kingdom , and the plundered wealth of her family . She took the field like the meanest among them , to assert the cause of public liberty , and to seek revenge for her body seamed with ignominious stripes , and her two daughters ...
... kingdom , and the plundered wealth of her family . She took the field like the meanest among them , to assert the cause of public liberty , and to seek revenge for her body seamed with ignominious stripes , and her two daughters ...
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... to the Britons during a great part of the sixth century . The Saxon kingdom of Essex having been established some years 38 HISTORY OF LONDON . CHAPTER III History of London from the departure of the Romans till the time the Conquest •
... to the Britons during a great part of the sixth century . The Saxon kingdom of Essex having been established some years 38 HISTORY OF LONDON . CHAPTER III History of London from the departure of the Romans till the time the Conquest •
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... kingdom under Egbert , in 827 , London was appointed to be the royal residence : Pennant says , that the great Alfred made it the capital of all England ; ' yet both these as- sertions are erroneous ; for the seat of government , for ...
... kingdom under Egbert , in 827 , London was appointed to be the royal residence : Pennant says , that the great Alfred made it the capital of all England ; ' yet both these as- sertions are erroneous ; for the seat of government , for ...
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The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and ..., 1. kötet Thomas Allen Nincs elérhető előnézet - 1837 |
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420. oldal - We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it. The churches, houses, and all on fire, and flaming at once; and a horrid noise the flames made, and the cracking of houses at their ruine. So home with a sad heart...
418. oldal - So I was called for, and did tell the King and Duke of York what I saw; and that, unless his Majesty did command houses to be pulled down, nothing could stop the fire. They seemed much troubled, and the King commanded me to go to my Lord Mayor from him, and command him to spare no houses, but to pull down before the fire every way.
413. oldal - I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods; such a strange consternation there was upon them...
417. oldal - ... ready to perish for hunger and destitution, yet not asking one penny for relief, which to me appeared a stranger sight than any I had yet beheld.
419. oldal - Soon as dined, I and Moone away, and walked through the city ; the streets full of nothing but people, and horses and carts loaden with goods, ready to run over one another, and removing goods from one burned house to another.
417. oldal - His majesty and council indeede tooke all imaginable care for their reliefe by proclamation for the country to come in and refresh them with provisions. In the midst of all this calamity and confusion, there was, I know not how, an alarme begun, that the French...
419. oldal - Bridge at the waterside; but little was or could be done, the fire coming upon them so fast. Good hopes there was of stopping it at the Three Cranes above, and at Buttulph's Wharf below Bridge, if care be used ; but the wind carries it into the City, so as we know not, by the waterside, what it do there.
424. oldal - ... the streets, but I went with the men, and we did put it out in a little time; so that that was well again. It was pretty to see how hard the women did work in the cannells, sweeping of water; but then they would scold for drink, and be as drunk as devils.
413. oldal - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches...
415. oldal - In this calamitous condition I returned with a sad heart to my house, blessing and adoring the mercy of God to me and mine, who in the midst of all this ruin was like Lot, in my little Zoar, safe and sound.