The Picture of Liverpool, Or Stranger's Guide1834 |
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... receiving a fine of ten marks , established the town and corporation a free borough for ever . The same monarch afterwards , in 1228 , granted another charter , which directs that there shall be a Guild , and excludes all , who are not ...
... receiving a fine of ten marks , established the town and corporation a free borough for ever . The same monarch afterwards , in 1228 , granted another charter , which directs that there shall be a Guild , and excludes all , who are not ...
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... by Lieutenant - general Meldrum , when the parlia- ment appointed Colonel Birch to be governor of the castle ; who , in retaliation for an affront he had previously received from the Earl of Derby , made 20 HISTORY OF LIVERPOOL .
... by Lieutenant - general Meldrum , when the parlia- ment appointed Colonel Birch to be governor of the castle ; who , in retaliation for an affront he had previously received from the Earl of Derby , made 20 HISTORY OF LIVERPOOL .
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had previously received from the Earl of Derby , made his children prisoners , and during eighteen months kept them confined in the Tower at the bottom of Water - street , not even allowing them the necessaries of life , which they ...
had previously received from the Earl of Derby , made his children prisoners , and during eighteen months kept them confined in the Tower at the bottom of Water - street , not even allowing them the necessaries of life , which they ...
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... received a vast impetus , unparalleled in the annals of commercial intercourse , by which means a transit regular and expeditious has been opened betwixt the port of Liverpool and the various ports of Wales , Ireland , and Scotland ...
... received a vast impetus , unparalleled in the annals of commercial intercourse , by which means a transit regular and expeditious has been opened betwixt the port of Liverpool and the various ports of Wales , Ireland , and Scotland ...
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... received s . d . £ . 810 11 6 1734 . ... 1760. 1,245 ... 2,330 6 7 1780. 2,261 .. ... 3,915 4 11 1800. 4,746 1812. 4,599 ... 450,060 ... 23,379 13 6 ... 446,788 ... 44,403 7 11 1820. 7,276 ... 805,033 ... 94,412 11 10 1827. 9,592 ...
... received s . d . £ . 810 11 6 1734 . ... 1760. 1,245 ... 2,330 6 7 1780. 2,261 .. ... 3,915 4 11 1800. 4,746 1812. 4,599 ... 450,060 ... 23,379 13 6 ... 446,788 ... 44,403 7 11 1820. 7,276 ... 805,033 ... 94,412 11 10 1827. 9,592 ...
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adorned afford appropriated arches bath beautiful Bold-street Bootle borough brick Brunswick Dock built canal cast iron charity Cheshire church commodious Corinthian order decorated distance divine service docks Doric Duke-street east side edifice Edmund Aikin eight elegant Ellesmere canal entablature entrance erected established Everton extensive façade feet 6 inches feet high feet wide formed galleries George's girls Gothic handsome stone front houses inhabitants institution interior Ionic order James's King's Dock kingdom late likewise Liverpool Manchester mayor ment Mersey miles occupied opened order of architecture ornamented parish parliament pediment pews pilasters placed poor port portico present principal pupils purpose river river Mersey river Weaver Salthouse Dock situate society south end south side spacious specimen spire square steam steeple street structure supported by subscription surmounted tion tower Town Hall Toxteth Park trade ture vessels wall Water-street west end west side whole
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Page 28 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast.
Page 140 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark, Surrounds me...
Page 28 - Then what is man? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Page 140 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn...
Page 92 - Had I been blessed with seeing and studying these emanations of genius at an earlier period of life, the sentiment of their preeminence would have animated all my exertions ; and more character, and expression, and life, would have pervaded all my humble attempts in historical painting'.
Page 5 - Walton a iiii miles of nat far froia the se is paroche chirch. The king hath a castelet there, and the erle of Darbe hath a stone howse there.
Page 90 - Ribble Water, in a direct line northerly, and so upon the south side of the said river to Hesketh Bank easterly...
Page 93 - Every thing here breathes life, with a veracity, with an exquisite knowledge of art, but without the least ostentation or parade of it, which is concealed by consummate and masterly skill.
Page 141 - ... have for the first time been eye-witnesses of the scene which it presents, without shedding tears of sympathy and delight. Nor has their interest in the establishment been diminished by a more intimate acquaintance with it. To behold a number of our fellow-creatures, whose previous situation was so truly deplorable, become at the same time happy and useful, produces a sensation of heartfelt satisfaction, which words are unable to express. " A circumstance, which at the same time that it is highly...
Page 48 - Stukeley, quite unconsciously. He said the trees were so frequent that branches and trunks were often struck by the plough. || Geological Map of England, 1819. it has been since ; but enough existed even then to give us a correct view of the whole subject. He says — " There is a subterranean forest, extending all the way " along the coast, from the Ribble at Penwortham near " Preston, to the Mersey at Liverpool. The inner line of " this forest takes in Longton Moss and Much Hoole, — " crosses...