Picturesque Views, with an Historical Account of the Inns of Court, in London and WestminsterR. Faulder, 1800 - 254 pages |
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... THIS WORK , ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE INNS OF COURT , IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED , By His LORDSHIP's MOST DEVOTED AND OBEDIENT SERVANT , NORFOLK STREET , June , 1800 . SAML IRELAND . PREFACE . To extend the circle of national fame ,
... THIS WORK , ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE INNS OF COURT , IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED , By His LORDSHIP's MOST DEVOTED AND OBEDIENT SERVANT , NORFOLK STREET , June , 1800 . SAML IRELAND . PREFACE . To extend the circle of national fame ,
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... most diftant countries . THE task of illuftrating those mo- numents , which boaft antiquity or splendor , will require the aid of historical investigation , and be great- ly facilitated by the representations of imitative art . IT has ...
... most diftant countries . THE task of illuftrating those mo- numents , which boaft antiquity or splendor , will require the aid of historical investigation , and be great- ly facilitated by the representations of imitative art . IT has ...
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... as to prevent it from refcuing from unme- rited feclufion , fome of the most striking fpecimens of architecture , that are to be found in the first city of the world . SECT . Streland del KING IAMES THE I ST ( 9 ) ( 8 )
... as to prevent it from refcuing from unme- rited feclufion , fome of the most striking fpecimens of architecture , that are to be found in the first city of the world . SECT . Streland del KING IAMES THE I ST ( 9 ) ( 8 )
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... most spacious and best selected for health and convenience , that London produces , and we are forry to re- mark , that the avenues to them are fo con- temptible , that a foreigner might pass a life in this city without the least induce ...
... most spacious and best selected for health and convenience , that London produces , and we are forry to re- mark , that the avenues to them are fo con- temptible , that a foreigner might pass a life in this city without the least induce ...
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... most prominent features of which are the very small , and truly Gothic windows on the north fide . They have the character of a very early style of building , most pro- bably as ancient , as that of Edward 3d , the period at which we ...
... most prominent features of which are the very small , and truly Gothic windows on the north fide . They have the character of a very early style of building , most pro- bably as ancient , as that of Edward 3d , the period at which we ...
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Page 45 - Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave lord-keeper led the brawls ; The seal and maces danced before him.
Page 66 - ... &c. ; then he descendeth, and goeth to dance, &c., and after he calleth his court, every one by name, one by one in this manner. " Sir Francis Flatterer, of Fowleshurst, in the county of Buckingham, — Sir Randle Rackabite, of Rascall Hall, in the county of Rakehell.
Page 148 - Then riseing from dinnar, he was agayne attended to the new Councell Chamber, where he conferred the honour of Knighthood on Mr Nicholas Pedley and Mr Richard Stote, two of the Benchers, who had in their turns...
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Page 147 - ... violins, playing all the tyme of dinnar in the gallery, att the lower end of the hall. Towards the end of dinnar, his...
Page 48 - privileged by the most excellent Princess the High Governor of the whole Island, wherein are store of Gentlemen of the whole Realm, that repair thither to learn to rule and obey by Law, to yield their fleece to their Prince and Commonweal ; as also to use all other exercises of body and mind whereunto nature most aptly serveth to adorn, by speaking, countenance, gesture, and use of apparel, the person of a Gentleman ; whereby amity is obtained, and continued, that Gentlemen of all countries, in...
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Page 64 - This ceremony also performed, a Huntsman cometh into the Hall, with a fox and a purse-net ; with a cat, both bound at the end of a staff ; and with them nine or ten couple of hounds, with the blowing of hunting homes. And the fox and cat are by the hounds set upon, and killed beneath the fire.
Page 153 - Chriftian in particular, from the completion of the prophecies in the Old and New Teftament, which relate to the Chriftian Church, efpecially to the apoftacy of Papal Rome.