Border Counties Worthies

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Hodder and Stoughton, 1880 - 614 páginas
 

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Página 82 - There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Página 73 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Página 115 - Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers.
Página 59 - Occasion'd by a mistress and a queen. Queen Eleanor the proud was French, they say ; But English manufacture got the day. Jane Clifford was her name, as books aver : Fair Rosamond was but her nom de guerre. Now tell me, gallants, would you lead your life With such a mistress, or with such a wife ? If one must be your choice, which d...
Página 80 - A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath The lust of lucre, and the dread of death.
Página 301 - Whole Law relative to the duty and office of a Justice of the Peace and Parish Officers " passed through the press in 5 vols.
Página 186 - Cheshire, in the year 1798. He was educated at the Grammar School of his native town, and in 1819 he matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, where he took his BA degree in 1823.
Página 162 - He was the author of— Five Discourses, containing certain arguments for and against the reception of Christianity by the ancient Jews and Greeks.
Página 221 - Dublin ; and while the commissioner was escorting his worship down stairs, the good woman, prompted by an affectionate regard for the safety of her brother, opened the box, took out the commission, and placed in lieu of it a pack of cards, with the knave of clubs uppermost. This the doctor carefully packed up...
Página 305 - Archdeaconry of Middlesex, and became Canon of Chester. He was not over-zealous in the restoration of Popery, and yet managed to hold his preferments in the Church until his death in 1556. An oration which he delivered in the Convocation of the clergy in 1553 has been published. YARDLEY, Sir WILLIAM, was born at Shrewsbury, in the year 1810, and having received his education at the Grammar School there, he proceeded to the study of the law at the Middle Temple. He was called to the Bar in 1837, and...

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